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undr her charge While I was there I never Shall forget and that I often think of the games we used to play
Received by Gels Dix & Smith March 5th Played a match game of Ball with Hawkin Zouaves in which they
the Battle of Newbern, NC, on board of steamboat City of Hudson the officers of the Brigade Mch 24 Played
Jeff added that George looked healthy but "played out as regards clothes..."
storm here for the last 48 hours, raining and blowing like great guns, but it appears to be about played
There is a lot of dead beats that get off by playing sick, but a chap that eats as much and looks as
made himself shown at about 8 ock in the morning He is well and looking first rate, pretty well played
He plays the same parts that Amodio used to but possesses the (to me) most wonderful voice, with the
For much of 1863 Jesse enjoyed good relations with the Jefferson Whitman family: he played amicably with
Peter Kissenbrack" of the state Legislature of /62[)] as comfortable quarters as I ever enjoyed—good
Then the trees and their dark and glistening verdure play their part.
extra-powerful here,) besides a large effect of green, varied with the white of the Capitol, fountains playing
The vital play and significance of their talk moves one more than books.
with him, & a mild orgie, just for a basis, you know, for talk & interchange of reminiscences & the play
importance in a day—amputations, blood, death are nothing here—you will see a group absorbed [in] playing
His cavalry cut off and outnumbered, the general ordered his two bands to play: "They joined, & played
opera or afterward to some supper party or carouse made by the young fellows for me, but what amid the play
I suppose you know that is a performance, a play, all in music & singing, in the Italian language, very
besides she is a tall & handsome lady, & her actions are so graceful as she moves about the stage, playing
I have said nothing of Jeannie, she is not as well as I want to see her looking, she is out playing,
he had his fife laying on the little stand by his side—he once told me that if he got well he would play
have his fife lying by him on a little stand by his cot, once told me that when he got well he would play
Well, Tom, it looks as though secesh was nearly played out—if they lose Charleston, as I believe they
, the rest cymbals & drums)—I tell you, mother, it made every thing ring—made my heart leap, they played
But more, a new world here I find as I would show—a world full of its separate action, play, suggestiveness—surely
it is estimated 15,000 Majority for the Union that is the home vote the copperheads are completely played