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" Your suggestion about getting a furlough to take the stump was certainly made without reflection. An officer fit for duty who at this crisis would abandon his post to electioneer for a seat in Congress ought to be scalped. "
Captains of the Civil War: A Chronicle of the Blue and the Gray - Page 350
by William Wood - 1921 - 424 pages
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The Literary World, Volume 7

1877 - 226 pages
...accept: writing from the battle-field, on the proposition that he should go home to canvass, that " an officer, fit for duty, who, at this crisis, would...electioneer for a seat in Congress, ought to be scalped.' In the House, he was chairman of the Library Committee, and, under his direction, the accommodations...
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Republic: A Monthly Magazine, Devoted to the Dissemination of ..., Volumes 5-8

1875 - 1750 pages
...Your suggestion about getting a furlough to take the stump was certainly made without reflection. An officer fit for duty, who, at this crisis, would abandon...electioneer for a seat in Congress ought to be scalped. You may feel perfectly sure I shall do no such thing." His wish for success was strong, but his sense...
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The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes

James Quay Howard - 1876 - 266 pages
...Your suggestion about getting a furlough to take the stump was certainly made without reflection. An officer fit for duty who at this crisis would abandon...electioneer for a seat in Congress ought to be. scalped. You may feel perfectly sure I shall do no such thing. We are, and for two weeks past have been, in...
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Military History of Ulysses S. Grant: From April, 1861, to April, 1865, Volume 3

Adam Badeau - 1882 - 792 pages
...political friends then wrote for him to return to Ohio and make the canvass. But Hayes replied : " Any officer fit for duty who at this crisis would...electioneer for a seat in Congress, ought to be scalped." four retaken from the enemy at Cedar Creek ;* the names of thirteen thousand prisoners were inscribed...
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Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant ...

Ulysses Simpson Grant - 1885 - 686 pages
...This might well have been expected of one who could write at the time he is said to have done so : " Any officer fit for duty who at this crisis would...electioneer for a seat in Congress, ought to be scalped." Having entered the army as a Major of Volunteers at the beginning of the war, General Hayes attained...
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Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography: Grinnell-Lockwood

James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - 1887 - 834 pages
...Your suggestion about getting a furlough to take the stu mp was certainly made without reflection. An officer fit for duty, who at this crisis would abandon...electioneer for a seat in congress, ought to be scalped." He was elected by a majority of 2,400. The Ohio soldiers in the field nominated him also for the governorship...
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Ohio Archæological and Historical Publications, Volume 4

1900 - 536 pages
...and stump his district. "Your suggestion," he answered, "was certainly made without reflection. An officer fit for duty, who at this crisis would abandon his post to electioneer for Congress, ought to be scalped. You may feel perfectly sure I shall do no such thing." He was elected,...
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Rutherford Birchard Hayes, James Abram Garfield, and Chester Alan Arthur

William Osborn Stoddard - 1888 - 308 pages
...Your suggestion about getting a furlough to take the stump was certainly made without reflection. An officer fit for duty, who at this crisis would abandon...electioneer for a seat in Congress, ought to be scalped. " He frankly confessed that, having been nominated, he desired an election, but turned from looking...
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The American Nation: Its Executive, Legislative, Political ..., Volume 2

James Harrison Kennedy - 1888 - 694 pages
...Your suggestion about getting a furlough to take the stump was certainly made without reflection. An officer fit for duty who at this crisis would abandon...electioneer for a seat in congress ought to be scalped. You may feel perfectly sure I shall do no such thing. We are, and for two weeks past have been, in...
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Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography: Grinnell-Lockwood

James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - 1888 - 818 pages
...authorities, and further that for the remuneration of public officers a system of fixed salaries, without for duty, who at this crisis would abandon his post to electioneer for a seat in congress, ought to lie scalped." He was elected by a majority of 2,400. The Ohio soldiers in the field nominated him also...
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