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pass through the city, and embark from the wharves; (How good they look, as they tramp down to the river
take a serpentine course—their arms flash in the sun—Hark to the musical clank; Behold the silvery river—in
; Or southward along the Tennessee or Cumberland rivers, or at Chattanooga on the mountain top, Saw I
I saw him at the river-side, Down by the ferry, lit by torches, hastening the embar- cation embarcation
I perceive you are more valuable than your owners supposed; Ah, river!
rear'dst him in on thy fresh & ample prairies, and on the breasts of thy great, fresh, musical flowing rivers
running Missouri, praise nothing, in art or aught else Till it has breathed of the atmosphere of this river
We primeval forests felling, We the rivers stemming, vexing we, and piercing deep the mines within; We
down the Potomac for several miles, & over into Virginia, along Arlington heights—The trees, grass, river
Springs, Virginia, was the site of continuing skirmishes during August of 1862 along the Rappahannock River
The exchange of prisoners of war now going on at points on James River and elsewhere is sending home
Virginia and Western Maryland—up and down, across and back again, amid heat, dust, rain, snow, wading rivers