USS Tuscarora 1861/searching For Confederate Raiders 1861-1864

Famous quotes containing the words searching, confederate and/or raiders:

    And I cannot find the place
    Where his paw is the snare!
    Little One! Oh, Little One!
    I am searching everywhere!
    James Kenneth Stephens (1882–1950)

    Figure a man’s only good for one oath at a time. I took mine to the Confederate States of America.
    Frank S. Nugent (1908–1965)

    This is our fate: eight hundred years’ disaster,
    crazily tangled like the Book of Kells:
    the dream’s distortion and the land’s division,
    the midnight raiders and the prison cells.
    John Hewitt (b. 1907)