Army of Northern Virginia Memorial VolumeJ. W. Randolph & English, 1879 - 347 pages |
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... hour of danger , but did his duty faithfully to the end of the war , and is now doing his duty by remaining true to the principles for which he fought , is the peer of the most renowned in fame or exalted in rank among the survivors ...
... hour of danger , but did his duty faithfully to the end of the war , and is now doing his duty by remaining true to the principles for which he fought , is the peer of the most renowned in fame or exalted in rank among the survivors ...
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... hour of his death . We were associates and friends when he was a soldier and I a con- gressman , and associates and friends when he led the armies of the Confederacy and I held civil office ; and therefore I may claim to speak as one ...
... hour of his death . We were associates and friends when he was a soldier and I a con- gressman , and associates and friends when he led the armies of the Confederacy and I held civil office ; and therefore I may claim to speak as one ...
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... hours of the life of the Army of Northern Virginia , at Appomattox Court- house . At three o'clock on the morning of that fatal day , Gen- eral Lee rode forward , still hoping that we might break through the countless hordes of the ...
... hours of the life of the Army of Northern Virginia , at Appomattox Court- house . At three o'clock on the morning of that fatal day , Gen- eral Lee rode forward , still hoping that we might break through the countless hordes of the ...
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... hour of humiliation the soul of our great Captain underwent the throes of death , for his grand old army surrendered ... hours by the tender hands of her women , and others still who gave their souls to God and their bodies to the enemy ...
... hour of humiliation the soul of our great Captain underwent the throes of death , for his grand old army surrendered ... hours by the tender hands of her women , and others still who gave their souls to God and their bodies to the enemy ...
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... hour of battle with all the force at his command . It would ill become me here , surrounded by the soldiers who shared in the glories of Lee , and after the speeches of his trusted military friends and of his great Lieutenants , who ...
... hour of battle with all the force at his command . It would ill become me here , surrounded by the soldiers who shared in the glories of Lee , and after the speeches of his trusted military friends and of his great Lieutenants , who ...
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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.