Marching to Victory: The Second Period of the War of the Rebellion Including the Year 1863, Volume 5Harper & brothers, 1888 - 491 pages |
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... passing the Batteries at Port Where Stonewall Jackson was Shot .... 144 Hudson 45 Chancellorsville House .... 146 Port Hudson ... 48 Close of the Battle - Repulse of the Con- Fooling the Confederates . 49 federates .. 153 Cutting the ...
... passing the Batteries at Port Where Stonewall Jackson was Shot .... 144 Hudson 45 Chancellorsville House .... 146 Port Hudson ... 48 Close of the Battle - Repulse of the Con- Fooling the Confederates . 49 federates .. 153 Cutting the ...
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... passed since the humiliation of the flag they loved at Fort Sumter ; great battles had been fought ; they had seen more defeats . than victories . They had been so near to Richmond that in the silent . hours of night , or on the calm ...
... passed since the humiliation of the flag they loved at Fort Sumter ; great battles had been fought ; they had seen more defeats . than victories . They had been so near to Richmond that in the silent . hours of night , or on the calm ...
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... passed a law which took all able - bodied citizens between the ages of eighteen and thirty - five from the control of the States and placed them under the control of Jefferson Davis during the war , and which annulled all the contracts ...
... passed a law which took all able - bodied citizens between the ages of eighteen and thirty - five from the control of the States and placed them under the control of Jefferson Davis during the war , and which annulled all the contracts ...
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... passed a restless night . He was thinking of the momentous results that might come from the letter which was to be sent across the Atlantic - possibly a terrible war between the United States and Great Britain . He could eat no ...
... passed a restless night . He was thinking of the momentous results that might come from the letter which was to be sent across the Atlantic - possibly a terrible war between the United States and Great Britain . He could eat no ...
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... passed a law recovering to the State a very large portion of the lands held by the Church . Some of the bishops who had been very obnoxious were ordered to leave the country , also the Papal nuncio , together with General Al- monte ...
... passed a law recovering to the State a very large portion of the lands held by the Church . Some of the bishops who had been very obnoxious were ordered to leave the country , also the Papal nuncio , together with General Al- monte ...
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Page 12 - We, even we here, hold the power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth.
Page 12 - The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Page 13 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite ; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold ; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand ; Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be.
Page 275 - His face, which is always placid and cheerful, did not show signs of the slightest disappointment, care, or annoyance; and he was addressing to every soldier he met a few words of encouragement, such as, "All this will come right in the end: we'll talk it over afterwards; but, in the mean time, all good men must rally. We want all good and true men just now,
Page 408 - Thou, and thou alone, must hear. Though my scarred and veteran legions Bear their eagles high no more, And my wrecked and scattered galleys Strew dark Actium's fatal shore ; Though no glittering guards surround me, Prompt to do their master's will, I must perish like a Roman, Die the great Triumvir still.
Page 13 - Ring out a slowly dying cause, And ancient forms of party strife; Ring in the nobler modes of life, With sweeter manners, purer laws.
Page 317 - Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert...
Page 258 - General, I have been a soldier all my life. I have been with soldiers engaged in fights by couples, by squads, companies, regiments, divisions, and armies, and should know, as well as any one, what soldiers can do. It is my opinion that no fifteen thousand men ever arrayed for battle can take that position,
Page 12 - Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Page 362 - At this moment, when one of the iron-clad vessels is on the point of departure from this kingdom, on its hostile errand against the United States...