 | 1858 - 828 Seiten
...yet unconvicted rebels who looked on. " That parade was a strange sight," says an eyewitness. •' The troops were drawn up on three sides of a square, the fuurth side being occupied by ten guns. The European soldiers all had their firelocks loaded, and every... | |
 | John Cave-Browne - 1861 - 440 Seiten
...of our leaders. Such a scene cannot be better described than in the words of an eyewitness : — " The troops were drawn up on three sides of a square, the fourth side being occupied by ten guns. The European soldiers all had their firelocks loaded, and every... | |
 | John Cave-Browne - 1861 - 438 Seiten
...will of our leaders. Such a scene cannot be better described than in the words of an eyewitness : — "The troops were drawn up on three sides of a square, the fourth side being occupied by ten guns. The European soldiers all had their firelocks loaded, and every... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1867 - 416 Seiten
...conceded to have no religious convictions, was dissolute, intemperate, and a noted gambler — poor material to exalt into a martyr, even in the cause...ten paces from the victims, who were seated on their cof58 fins. Perfect silence reigned. The order for trial, the charge, specifications, findings and... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1867 - 370 Seiten
...conceded to have no religious convictions, was dissolute, intemperate, and a noted gambler — poor material to exalt into a martyr, even in the cause...ten paces from the victims, who were seated on their cof58 fins. Perfect silence reigned. The order for trial, the charge, specifications, findings and... | |
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... on the Virginia scaffold. But Brown was a man of different mould ; of austere morals, trained to piety, accustomed to spend much of his time in reading his bible or on his knees in prayer. Mumford was conceded to have no religious convictions, was... 