| Pennsylvania. Commission of Soldiers' Orphan Schools - 1886 - 120 Seiten
...the conflict raged and so many brave men died. "On Fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tente are spread. And Glory guards with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead!" There seems to me to be a wonderful resemblance between the nests of these defenceless little birds,... | |
| 1887 - 402 Seiten
...Unknown to all save God and the angels of heaven ; and we turn away and leave them to sleep where " On Fame's eternal camping-ground, Their silent tents...guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead." January, CHAPTER XII. FREDERICKSBURG TO SUFFOLK. THE year 1863 dawned upon us in camp, engaged in the... | |
| Joseph West Moore - 1887 - 320 Seiten
...dream alarms : No braying horn, no screaming fife, At dawn shall call to arms." "The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo ; No more...life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few." 275 " Your own proud land's heroic soil Must be ^'our fitter grave ; She claims from war his richest... | |
| Jacob Hoke - 1887 - 644 Seiten
...worthy of investigation. CHAPTER XH. GETTYSBURG, THE NATION'S SHRINE. "On Fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread. And Glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead." 58 soon as the result of the series of engagements between the Federal and Confederate armies at Gettysburg... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs - 1968 - 476 Seiten
...imminent as everincreasing demands for space and a rigid non-expansion policy move on a collision course. On Fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents...guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead. — Theodore O'Hara, after the Battle of Buena Vista, 184T. Last Veterans' Day, for the first time... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs - 1968 - 1220 Seiten
...imminent as everincreasing demands for space and a rigid non-expansion policy move on a collision course. On Fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents...guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead. — THEODORE O'HARA, after the Battle of Buena Vista, 18^T. Last Veterans' Day, for the first time... | |
| William Corby - 1992 - 488 Seiten
...the Irish poet, Col. O'Hara, under similar circumstances, came to mind: 22 " The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo! No more on...guards with solemn round The bivouac of the dead!" We halted for the night in the old Lewis farmhouse, deserted by its inhabitants the day before, our... | |
| Eric Freedman - 1993 - 258 Seiten
...Cemetery's first tale is of death far from family, far from home. "On fame's eternal camping ground, their silent tents are spread, and glory guards with solemn round, the bivouac of the dead," a memorial plaque reads. For most of those buried here, Mackinac Island was intended as only a temporary... | |
| Richard O. Reisem - 1994 - 136 Seiten
...Remington. A bronze plaque on the base of the statue is inscribed: "By fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread And glory guards with solemn round The bivouac of the dead." At right is the headstone of Charles D. Howell (Section W, Lot 9), 108 Regiment, New York State Volunteers,... | |
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