Terrible Swift Sword (The Lost Regiment)
Terrible swift sword is a phrase from "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" by Julia Ward Howe. Terrible Swift Sword may also refer to: * ''Terrible Swift Sword'' (game), a 1976 board wargame that simulates the Battle of Gettysburg * Terrible Swift Sword (''The 4400''), an episode of ''The 4400'' *'' Terrible Swift Sword (The Lost Regiment)'', the third book in William R. Forstchen's '' The Lost Regiment'' science fiction book series *''Terrible Swift Sword'', the second volume of Bruce Catton Charles Bruce Catton (October 9, 1899 – August 28, 1978) was an American historian and journalist, known best for his books concerning the American Civil War. Known as a narrative historian, Catton specialized in popular history, featuring int ...

The Battle Hymn Of The Republic
The "Battle Hymn of the Republic", also known as "Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory" or "Glory, Glory Hallelujah" outside of the United States, is a popular American patriotic song written by the abolitionist writer Julia Ward Howe. Howe wrote her lyrics to the music of the song "John Brown's Body" in November 1861 and first published them in ''The Atlantic Monthly'' in February 1862. The song links the judgment of the wicked at the end of the age (through allusions to biblical passages such as and ) with the American Civil War. History Oh! Brothers The "Glory, Hallelujah" tune was a folk hymn developed in the oral hymn tradition of camp meetings in the southern United States and first documented in the early 1800s. In the first known version, "Canaan's Happy Shore," the text includes the verse "Oh! Brothers will you meet me (3×)/On Canaan's happy shore?" and chorus "There we'll shout and give Him glory (3×)/For glory is His own." This developed into the familiar "Glory, glory, ...
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Terrible Swift Sword (game)
''Terrible Swift Sword: Battle of Gettysburg Game'' (often abbreviated ''TSS'') is a grand tactical regimental level board wargame published by Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) in 1976 that simulates the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. A second edition was published by TSR in 1986. Description ''TSS'', with over 1000 counters, is classified as a "monster" wargame; as one of the largest board games ever produced, it often takes longer to play than the actual 3-day battle of July 1–3, 1863. The game's title comes from the third line of the ''Battle Hymn of the Republic'': ''"He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword."'' Components The game box contains: *Three 22" x 34" paper hex grid maps scaled at 120 yd (110 m) per hex *32-page rulebook * 2000 die-cut counters * historical situation briefing booklet * various play aids * six-sided die Gameplay Each daylight turn represents 20 minutes of the battle; each night is divided in ...
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Terrible Swift Sword (The 4400)
'' The 4400'' is a science fiction television series produced by CBS Paramount Network Television The show was produced by Viacom Productions during season one and by Paramount Network Television during season two, after the former was absorbed by the latter in 2005. PNT changed its name again in 2006 with the CBS/Viacom split. in association with Sky Television, Renegade 83 and American Zoetrope for USA Network in the United States and Sky One in the United Kingdom. The show was created and written by Scott Peters and René Echevarria, and it stars Joel Gretsch and Jacqueline McKenzie. The series ran for four seasons from 2004 until its cancellation in 2007. In the pilot episode, what was originally thought to be a comet deposits a group of exactly 4400 people at Highland Beach, in the Cascade Range foothills near Mount Rainier Mount Rainier (), indigenously known as Tahoma, Tacoma, Tacobet, or təqʷubəʔ, is a large active stratovolcano in the Cascade Ran ...
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Terrible Swift Sword (The Lost Regiment)
Terrible swift sword is a phrase from "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" by Julia Ward Howe. Terrible Swift Sword may also refer to: * ''Terrible Swift Sword'' (game), a 1976 board wargame that simulates the Battle of Gettysburg * Terrible Swift Sword (''The 4400''), an episode of ''The 4400'' *'' Terrible Swift Sword (The Lost Regiment)'', the third book in William R. Forstchen's '' The Lost Regiment'' science fiction book series *''Terrible Swift Sword'', the second volume of Bruce Catton Charles Bruce Catton (October 9, 1899 – August 28, 1978) was an American historian and journalist, known best for his books concerning the American Civil War. Known as a narrative historian, Catton specialized in popular history, featuring int ...

The Lost Regiment
''The Lost Regiment'' is a series of science fiction novels written by William R. Forstchen. Plot The plot revolves around a Union Army regiment and an artillery battery from the American Civil War which get transported to an alien world. The 35th Maine Infantry regiment and the 44th New York Light Artillery battery travel to a different world using a ship that emerged from a mysterious electrical storm. The alien world is populated by descendants of medieval Russians (or "Rus") who still live a feudal existence at a medieval level of technology. They learn from their new hosts that there are various civilizations on this world made up of the descendants of people from various eras of Earth's history. The Union soldiers eventually discover a terrible secret their Russian hosts have been keeping from them when the Tugar arrive. The Tugars are ten-foot-tall aliens with a culture and technology similar to that of the Mongol Horde. They ride a never-ending circuit around the planet. ...
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