The boy's book of battle-lyrics

During the last twenty-five years my work in verse has been mainly confined to illustrating the history of the United States, with occasional studies of local life and character...

Four times they backward beat us, Four times our force returned; We quenched in bloody torrents The fire that in us burned; We slew who fought, and those who knelt With stroke o...

All in vain they thus had striven; backward driven, beat and broken, Leaving token of their coming in the dead around the dell, They retreated—well it served us! their retreat f...

’Twas a dark and bloody lesson; it was bloody work to teach it; But when sits on high Oppression, soaring fire alone can reach it. Though but raw and rude Provincials, we were f...

We placed her in Friends’ burying-ground; and, though we marked it not, I could take thee to it in the night, so well I know the spot. At home for many hours I lay—a stupor on m...

The incidents of the fight are so minutely given in the ballad that no further explanation is needed. The Americans remained masters of the field, but at a fearful loss, of whic...

Then came the crash of musketry loud pealing on my ear; I heard a whizzing sound go past—down fell a comrade near— There was a throbbing in my breast that seemed almost like fea...

Clinton’s first plan was to strike New Brunswick and embark at the Raritan; but at Allentown, finding Washington in his way, and disinclined to a general engagement under the ci...

Thus within the winter night, when the hickory fire is roaring, Flickering streams of ruddy light on the folk before it pouring; When the apples pass around, and the cider follo...

From the narrative of a survivor of the gallant men who participated in the fight at King’s Mountain I wrote the ballad, and aimed to give it the simple style of the narrator. B...

There is no event in American history which seems to be so misunderstood, especially in details, as the battle fought in New Orleans after the close of the war of 1812. The comm...

The story that follows is, as the old magazines used to say of their tales, “founded on fact.” The foundation is rather slender. Similar incidents have occurred in all wars, anc...