Thin is the English column now, and faint their volleys grow, Yet, mustering all the strength they have, they make a gallant show.
And mustering come his chosen troops, like clouds at eventide.
The method ofmustering the clans by means of the message of the Fiery Cross.
The men who were prepared to murder, were unwilling to fight, however strong the odds on their side; and the mustering of the Jacobin bravoes proved, on this occasion, an empty menace.
On condition that such further aggression should be abstained from, the Emperor seems to have been willing to prohibit the mustering of the emigrant forces in his dominions.
A month was spent in drill and discipline; when the time came for the mustering into the national service of those who were willing to enter, the regiment went in as a body.
Grant has just finished mustering into State service the ten additional regiments authorized by the Legislature.
With the exception of the common people mustering on the roof of the "Dar-un-Nadwa," the city was quite empty.
Indignation at Boston had been fanned to fury, for now all the details of the butchery at Portland were known; and Phips found the colony mustering a monster expedition to attack the very stronghold of French power,--Quebec itself.
Luckily Iberville's other ships now joined him, and, mustering his forces, the dauntless French leader marched against the fort.
Very different was the spirit prevalent, and very opposite the burning words uttered, on the seaboard of the Syracusan station, as the leaders were mustering their men immediately before embarkation.
Nevertheless, mustering courage, I looked straight at the speaker, and slowly shook my head.
Weaver, 2d artillery, who had been detailed as mustering officer for the Massachusetts volunteers.
The company was marched over to brigade headquarters and formed in column of twos facing the mustering officer, Lieut.
I was wondering," said Burton, mustering all his resolution for the task, "if you would accept an invitation to drive there with me next Sunday?
Hagan, go in at that end," he commanded, with the air of a general mustering his legions.
About an hour afterwards the party were mustering in a state of saturation upon the edge of the scrub, after having passed through the still swollen stream, which they had had to swim.
On the following day I was relieved from mustering duty, and at General Lyon's request was ordered to report to him at Boonville, remaining with him as adjutant-general and chief of staff until his death at Wilson's Creek.
The mustering officer employed himself all night and the following day in distributing arms and ammunition to the men as they arrived, and in stationing them along the arsenal walls.
The organization of the volunteers now began, the mustering officer superintending the election of officers, enrolling the men, and perfecting the organization in conformity to the militia laws of the State.
With the order of detail was furnished a copy of the old instructions for mustering into service, etc.
On June 24 I made a full report to the adjutant-general of the discharge of my duties as mustering officer, including three new regiments of three years' volunteers whose muster would be completed in a few days.
Prisoners taken by war parties near Crown Point gave exaggerated reports of hostile preparation, and doubled and trebled the forces that were mustering against Canada.
Meanwhile the New England men, strengthened by the levies of New York, weremustering at Albany for the attack of Crown Point.
Meanwhile, at the head of Lake George, the raw bands of ever-active New England were musteringfor the fray.
The formalities of mustering the regiment out of the service were completed on the 29th of July, and on the same day it started for Massachusetts.
The next day was warm and sultry, and a halt, for the greater part of it, was made near the place of the previous night’s encampment for the purpose of proceeding with the formalities of mustering the regiment for pay.
This seemed a poser, but, after some hesitancy and hemming, and the re-mustering of his cardinal presumption, he thought he could shortly render himself qualified to speak.
The war party mustering at that point absorbs all attention.
Five or six thousand Spaniards were coming by sea to Flanders, and as many Italians were crossing the mountains, besides a great number mustering for the same purpose in Germany and Lorraine.
Our scarlet-clad men could be seen mustering here and there, and, though Tom could not himself know what was happening, that mustering told its own tale.
Anderson, Company "C," was detailed as Adjutant, Ordinance Officer and Mustering Officer.
The army and the country are to be congratulated on the mustering out of the Third North Carolina Regiment.
The mustering out of the Negro volunteers should have begun sooner and have been completed long ago.
I had charge of mustering these regiments into the State service.
It was but a few days before the time set for mustering into the United States service such of the men as were willing to volunteer for three years or the war.
He had been a brigadier, in command at Cairo, while I was mustering officer at Springfield without any rank.
Brigadier-General John Pope was stationed at Springfield, as United States mustering officer, all the time I was in the State service.
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