The boys of '61; or, Four years of fightingEste & Lauriat, 1884 - 558 pages |
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A. P. Hill advance army artillery attack battle battle of Fredericksburg boats bridge brigade Burnside camp cannon Captain captured cavalry Chambersburg Chancellorsville church Cold Harbor Colonel column command crossed Culp's Hill division enemy enemy's field fight fire flag flank force Ford Fort Pillow Fort Sumter Fredericksburg front Germanna Gordonsville Grant ground gunboats guns hands head-quarters hill Hooker horses Howard hundred infantry Jackson Kentucky Lee's Longstreet look lying massa McClellan Meade Meade's miles morning moved movement negro night North o'clock officers passed Petersburg pickets position Potomac prisoners railroad reached rear Rebel batteries regiment Richmond ridge river road rode says Second Corps Sedgwick sent shells shot Sickles side Sixth Corps skirmishers slavery slaves soldiers South Stevensburg Stonewall Jackson stream Sumter Taneytown thousand took town troops Union Union army wagons Washington Weehawken woods wounded Yankees
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Page 551 - GENERAL: I received at a late hour your note of to-day. In mine of yesterday I did not intend to propose the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, but to ask the terms of your proposition. To be frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender of this army...
Page 362 - The Almighty has His own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!
Page 420 - Come over, and help ui." FBOM Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand, Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand, — Prom many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain.
Page 362 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years -of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, 'The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 309 - I therefore determined, first, to use the greatest number of troops practicable against the armed force of the enemy, preventing him from using the same force at different seasons against first one and then another of our armies, and the possibility of repose for refitting and producing necessary supplies for carrying on resistauce. Second, to hammer continuously against the armed force of the enemy...
Page 362 - Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the...
Page 375 - Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee! E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me; Still all my song shall be. Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee!
Page 308 - ... the army most vigorously pressed, and to furlough large numbers, during seasons of inactivity on our part, to go to their homes and do the work of producing for the support of their armies. It was a question whether our numerical strength and resources were not more than balanced by these disadvantages and the enemy's superior position.
Page 298 - Never mind, General, all this has been MY fault — it is I that have lost this fight, and you must help me out of it in the best way you can.
Page 41 - The pangs of transformation ; Not painlessly doth God recast And mould anew the nation. Hot burns the fire Where wrongs expire ; Nor spares the hand That from the land Uproots the ancient evil. The hand-breadth cloud the sages feared Its bloody rain is dropping ; The poison plant the fathers spared All else is overtopping. East, West, South, North, It curses the earth ; All justice dies, And fraud and lies Live only in its shadow.