PATRIOTISM
In Poetry and Prose Being Selected Passages From Lectures and Patriotic Readings
Author: JAMES E. MURDOCH
Also Poems by Thomas Buchanan Read, George H. Boker, Francis De Haes Janiver
and Other American Authors
Commorative of the
GALLANT DEEDS OF OUR NOBLE DEFENDERS ON LAND AND SEA
Illustrations: A Few Illustrations
Publisher: J. B. Lippincott & Co
Copyright Date: 1865
Assuming to be a FIRST EDITION
Pages: 172
Content - About the Book
Classic Americana Historical Vintage Book -
Foreword -
... May God bless the efforts of our loyal countrymen to alleviate the suffering and sorrows of those who are fighting for our Government, and may His merciful providence restore peace to the land and the land to the supremacy of law and order under that sacred emblem of Liberty and Union the Dear "Old Flag!"
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Dedicated to the Mothers and Wifes, Sisters and Daughters, of The Brave Men who have stood as a living wall, between the national unity and honor and the assaults of armed Rebels
This Volume is Dedicated by James E. Murdoch, who in expressing his veneration for the Patriotic services conferred on their country in its hour of trial and suffering by the loyal women of America, calls to his aid the following beautiful lines...
(The Brave At Home (Extract from the Wagoner of the Alleghanies)...
.... During the popular excitement which followed the firing upon the flag at Sumter, Mr. Murdoch was on his way from Milwaukie to fulfil a professional engagement in Pittsburg... The President's first call for Volunteers was arriving at every telegrpahic station and the spark which bore the message seemed to have kindled a flame in every heart... ... his younger son.. .had enlised in a Zouave regiment and was then on his way to Washington... . ... the noble boy with whom he parted in Lancaster is now lying beneath the bloody sod of the battlefield of Chickamauga. Captain Thomas Forrest Murdoch received his first commission as Lieutenant for his gallantry in the campaign which closed with the terrible battle of Shiiloh... ... he fell at the head of General Van Cleve's line of battle in the first day's fight.... Mr. Murdoch's elder son, CAptain James E. Murdoch found it impossible to remain quietly at home with the news of battle ringing in his ears and seeming to reproach him for his backwardness... he therfore shouldered his musket and followed his brother in the field... Brigadier General Sill....
The American Flag; Mr. Lincoln at Home in Springfield and Mr. Lincoln at the White House in Washington; Lincoln at Springfield 1861; Mr. Lincoln's Letter to the Kentucky Delegates, April 4, 1864; PResident's letter to Mr. Murdoch and Poem; Prescience of the Poet; The Relics; Poem by William Cullen Bryant; Memento to Secretary Chase; Items concerning the Treaty Elm; Incident in the History of the Old War Ship the Alliance; Old Ironsides; Shreds of the Flag Halliards of the Cumberland; Three ERas; Mr. Boker as a Dramatic Poet; Ballad of NEw Orleans; The Union; A National Song; Power of Music and Verse as Incitements to VAlor; Our Defenders; .... Victory does not always reward Valor; The Battle of Lookout Mountain; The Peculiar Institution and Stonewall Jackson's Hatred of the Old Flag; Barbara Frietchie; An Incident of the War; On Board the Cumberland; The Oath; Gettysburg; Cemetery and the Battle Field; Remembered byt he Soldier on the Field of BAttle; Marco Bozzaris; Heroes Die but Heroism is Eternal; Count Candespina's STandard; Don't Give Up the Ship; ... The Dying Soldier
Before Vicksburg; Our Heros; Wounded;
The New American Frigate Alliance
Scott and the Veteran; Charleston Harbor in 1776 and 1861
Bonhomee Richard; Paul Jones; Our Heros...
Absolutely beautiful boards and story
Book Condition
Color Boards: Brown boards, blind stamed bordering and center emblem, see hpotos, faded gold embossed lettering decorations and stars on the spine, see photos
