American History Told by Contemporaries ..., Volume 4Albert Bushnell Hart, John Gould Curtis Macmillan, 1901 |
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... Fire - Eater , 1861 56. Professor Joel Parker : The Wrong of Secession , 1861 " Let Us Alone , " 1861 172 • 175 · 178 CHAPTER X - PRACTICE OF SECESSION 58. Representative Reuben Davis : Secession Spirit in Mississippi , 1860 59 ...
... Fire - Eater , 1861 56. Professor Joel Parker : The Wrong of Secession , 1861 " Let Us Alone , " 1861 172 • 175 · 178 CHAPTER X - PRACTICE OF SECESSION 58. Representative Reuben Davis : Secession Spirit in Mississippi , 1860 59 ...
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... fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be , Launch our Mayflower , and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea , Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood - rusted key . [ James Russell Lowell ] , Poems , Second Series ...
... fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be , Launch our Mayflower , and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea , Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood - rusted key . [ James Russell Lowell ] , Poems , Second Series ...
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... fires of those gates , we found to the south other obstacles but little less formidable . All the approaches near the city , are over elevated causeways , cut in many places ( to oppose us ) and flanked on both sides by ditches , also ...
... fires of those gates , we found to the south other obstacles but little less formidable . All the approaches near the city , are over elevated causeways , cut in many places ( to oppose us ) and flanked on both sides by ditches , also ...
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... fire on the part of our heavy batteries . About eight o'clock in the morning of the 13th , judging that the time had arrived , by the effect of the missiles we had thrown , I sent an aid - de - camp to Pillow , and another to Quitman ...
... fire on the part of our heavy batteries . About eight o'clock in the morning of the 13th , judging that the time had arrived , by the effect of the missiles we had thrown , I sent an aid - de - camp to Pillow , and another to Quitman ...
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... fire , and entered the outer en- closure of Chapultepec just in time to join in the final assault from the west . · - a At this junction of roads , we first passed one of those formidable systems of city defences , spoken of above , and ...
... fire , and entered the outer en- closure of Chapultepec just in time to join in the final assault from the west . · - a At this junction of roads , we first passed one of those formidable systems of city defences , spoken of above , and ...
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