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" And furthermore, as president of the Board of Supervisors, I beg you to take immediate steps to relieve me as superintendent, the moment the State determines to secede, for on no earthly account will I do any act or think any thought hostile to or in... "
Captains of the Civil War: A Chronicle of the Blue and the Gray - Page 7
by William Wood - 1921 - 424 pages
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Report of the Proceedings of the Society of the Army of the ..., Volume 28

Society of the Army of the Tennessee - 1897 - 272 pages
...the general scheme of secession, his answer was short and decisive, and concluded in these words: " On no earthly account, will I do any act or think...defiance of the old government of the United States." My fellow-countrymen, the simple faith and the unfaltering loyalty manifested in these words is cherished...
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Sherman and His Campaigns: A Military Biography

Samuel Millard Bowman, Richard Biddle Irwin - 1865 - 590 pages
...what disposition should be made of them. " And furthermore, as President of the Board of Supervisors, I beg you to take immediate steps to relieve me as...defiance of the old Government of the United States." His resignation was, of course, promptly accepted, and he at once returned to St. Louis. In consequence...
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Sherman and His Campaigns: A Military Biography

Samuel Millard Bowman, Richard Biddle Irwin - 1865 - 572 pages
...what disposition should be made of them. " And furthermore, as President of the Board of Supervisors, I beg you to take immediate steps to relieve me as...defiance of the old Government of the United States." His resignation was, of course, promptly accepted, and he at once returned to St. Louis. In consequence...
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Life and Military Career of Major-General William Tecumseh Sherman

Phineas Camp Headley - 1865 - 410 pages
...what disposition should be made of them. " And furthermore, as President of the Board of Supervisors, I beg you to take immediate steps to relieve me as...defiance of the old Government of the United States. ' " With great respect, &c., " (Signed) WT SHERMAN." What a scorching rebuke is that in the first paragraph...
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History of the 78th Regiment O.V.V.I.: From Its "muster-in" to Its "muster ...

Thomas M. Stevenson - 1865 - 368 pages
...were getting control of the South. " On no earthly account, " he wrote to the Governor of Louisiana, "will I do any act, or think any thought, hostile...defiance of the old government of the United States. " Such was the emphatic language of this true patriot. He went to Washington and was made Colonel,...
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The North American Review, Volume 102

1866 - 672 pages
...prefer to maintain my allegiance to the old Constitution as long as a fragment of it survives. .... " I beg you to take immediate steps to relieve me as...defiance of, the old government of the United States." It is curious to remember that it was the man who wrote this letter, — and who wrote it in the far...
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Our Great Captains: Grant, Sherman, Thomas, Sheridan, and Farragut

Linus Pierpont Brockett - 1866 - 316 pages
...what disposition should be made of them. And furthermore, as President of the Board of Supervisors, I beg you to take immediate steps to relieve me as...defiance of the old Government of the United States. With great respect, &c., (Signed) WT SHEBMAN. "Inhere spoke the true hero and patriot, " On no earthlyaccount...
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The North American Review, Volume 102

1866 - 662 pages
...prefer to maintain my allegiance to the old Constitution as long as a fragment of it survives. .... " I beg you to take immediate steps to relieve me as...defiance of, the old government of the United States." It is curious to remember that it was the man who wrote this letter, — and who wrote it in the far...
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Personal Recollections of Sherman's Campaigns in Georgia and the Carlinas

George Whitfield Pepper - 1866 - 538 pages
...letter to Governor Moore, resigning the position, furnishes the secret of his subsequent .fame : " For on no earthly account will I do any act, or think...defiance of the old Government of the United States." Like thousands of his countrymen, he regarded the cause of slavery, to a certain extent, as being identified...
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The Life and Campaigns of Lieut.-Gen. U. S. Grant, from His Boyhood to the ...

Phineas Camp Headley - 1866 - 794 pages
...furthermore, as President of the Board of Supervisors, I beg yon to take immediate steps to relievo mo as superintendent the moment the State determines...on no earthly account will I do any act, or think nny thought, hostile to or in defiance of the old Government of the United States. With great respect,...
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