Army of Northern Virginia Memorial VolumeJ. W. Randolph & English, 1879 - 347 pages |
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... called to order by Brigadier - General Bradley T. Johnson , on whose motion Lieutenant - General Jubal A. Early was appointed temporary chairman , and Captain George Walker , of Westmoreland , Captain Campbell Lawson , of Richmond , and ...
... called to order by Brigadier - General Bradley T. Johnson , on whose motion Lieutenant - General Jubal A. Early was appointed temporary chairman , and Captain George Walker , of Westmoreland , Captain Campbell Lawson , of Richmond , and ...
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... called together some of his surviving com- rades . It is no occasion for any sketch of biography or history ; eulogy upon his life and death is vain ; his character excels all praise ; his merits need not to be disclosed and his faults ...
... called together some of his surviving com- rades . It is no occasion for any sketch of biography or history ; eulogy upon his life and death is vain ; his character excels all praise ; his merits need not to be disclosed and his faults ...
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... called from my distant home in Kentucky by a request which , in the mouth of General Lee , was equivalent to a command . For four years I have watched with reverential affection the final scenes of that life , so magnificent in ...
... called from my distant home in Kentucky by a request which , in the mouth of General Lee , was equivalent to a command . For four years I have watched with reverential affection the final scenes of that life , so magnificent in ...
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... called around him in his last years the privilege and the honor of guarding his tomb . When I speak of the chapel he built with his own hands , out of the first fruits of the offerings of the South to enable him to carry out his work of ...
... called around him in his last years the privilege and the honor of guarding his tomb . When I speak of the chapel he built with his own hands , out of the first fruits of the offerings of the South to enable him to carry out his work of ...
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... called to order by Colonel Robert E. Withers , on whose motion General Early was elected Chairman , and de- veloped the objects of the meeting in his opening address . REMARKS OF GENERAL EARLY . Gentlemen - I thank you sincerely for the ...
... called to order by Colonel Robert E. Withers , on whose motion General Early was elected Chairman , and de- veloped the objects of the meeting in his opening address . REMARKS OF GENERAL EARLY . Gentlemen - I thank you sincerely for the ...
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Page 268 - ... and now beware of rashness. Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.
Page 267 - Burnside's command of the army you have taken counsel of your ambition and thwarted him as much as you could, in which you did a great wrong to the country and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer.
Page 267 - What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship. The Government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for all commanders.
Page 179 - Amongst other favorite animals that cheered this lady's solitude, a brace of tame deer ran familiarly about the house, and one of them came to stare at me as a stranger. But unluckily spying his own figure in the glass, he made a spring over the tea-table that stood under it, and shattered the glass to pieces, and falling back upon the teatable made a terrible fracas among the china.
Page 84 - In one word, I would not take any risk of being entangled upon the river, like an ox jumped half over a fence and liable to be torn by dogs front and rear without a fair chance to gore one way or kick the other.
Page 245 - Ferry, supplying their places in some sort, calling in militia from the adjacent States. We also have eighteen cannon on the road to Harper's Ferry, of which arm there is not a single one at that point.
Page 278 - IT is with heartfelt satisfaction the Commanding General announces to the Army that the operations of the last three days have determined that our enemy must either ingloriously fly, or come out from behind his defenses and give us battle on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits him.
Page 22 - Tell General Lee I have fought my corps to a frazzle, and I fear I can do nothing unless I am heavily supported by Longstreet's corps.
Page 244 - You are instructed, laying aside for the present the movement on Richmond, to put 20,000 men in motion at once for the Shenandoah, moving on the line, or in advance of the line, of the Manassas Gap Railroad.
Page 244 - In consequence of General Banks's critical position, I have been compelled to suspend General McDowell's movements to join you. The enemy are making a desperate push upon Harper's Ferry, and we are trying to throw General Fremont's force, and part of General McDowell's, in their rear.