Report of the Proceedings of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee at the ... Meeting[s] ..., Volume 28The Society., 1897 |
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... United States . ARTICLE II . The object of the Society shall be to keep alive and preserve that kindly and cordial feeling which has been one of the characteristics of this Army during its career in the service , and which has given it ...
... United States . ARTICLE II . The object of the Society shall be to keep alive and preserve that kindly and cordial feeling which has been one of the characteristics of this Army during its career in the service , and which has given it ...
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... United States Army at any of our annual meetings . AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION . FIRST . That the first sentence of the third article of the Constitution be amended so as to read as follows : " The Society shall be organized by the ...
... United States Army at any of our annual meetings . AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION . FIRST . That the first sentence of the third article of the Constitution be amended so as to read as follows : " The Society shall be organized by the ...
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... United States have selected for its chief magistrate , a veteran of the war . We not only congratulate him . but ourselves . It shows that the people still hold their good sense . We are saddened by the loss of many of our distinguished ...
... United States have selected for its chief magistrate , a veteran of the war . We not only congratulate him . but ourselves . It shows that the people still hold their good sense . We are saddened by the loss of many of our distinguished ...
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... United States for the cause of God and humanity from 1861 to 1865 , and in all that was done none took any more honorable or conspicuous part than the " Army of the Tennessee , " and the survivors of that Army may well be allowed a ...
... United States for the cause of God and humanity from 1861 to 1865 , and in all that was done none took any more honorable or conspicuous part than the " Army of the Tennessee , " and the survivors of that Army may well be allowed a ...
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... United States , so we can look for better times . And I will try and be with you next year , if I do not go to the other side before that time . The 18th and 19th of November will be two grand days in St. Louis . Oh , how I would like ...
... United States , so we can look for better times . And I will try and be with you next year , if I do not go to the other side before that time . The 18th and 19th of November will be two grand days in St. Louis . Oh , how I would like ...
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A. J. Smith ANDREW HICKENLOOPER approved April attend the twenty-eighth battle Bentonville brigade CAPTAIN JULIUS PITZMAN Captain Loyd G captured Carl Rohl-Smith cavalry Chairman Charles Chas Chicago Cincinnati Colonel Cornelius Cadle command comrades Confederate Corps Corresponding Secretary D. B. Henderson DEAR GENERAL:-I DEAR SIR:-I December division dollars duty enemy flag G. M. DODGE George Buckland Grand Army Grant Hickenlooper honor Hoyt Sherman inches infantry inst invitation Iowa January John Johnston land Lieutenant Louis Major March Massey Rhind McArthur Missouri models Mower National Sculpture Society Noble November 14 November 18th O. O. Howard October officers Ohio present received Recording Secretary regiment regret resolution respectfully river selected September Sherman Statue Committee sincerely Slocum Smith Society Army soldier Southern Hotel street submitted Surgeon Tennessee toast truly twenty-eighth annual reunion twenty-eighth reunion Union Vicksburg Warner Washington William Tecumseh Sherman
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Page 164 - WHEN Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night. And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure celestial white With streakings of the morning light; Then from his mansion in the sun She called her eagle bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land.
Page 147 - Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play! Who hath not learned in hours of faith, The truth to flesh and sense unknown, That Life is ever Lord of Death...
Page 81 - Tis of the wave and not the rock; 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore. Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee.
Page 164 - Flag of the free heart's hope and home, By angel hands to valor given ! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ? JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE.
Page 169 - The union of lakes — the union of lands — The union of states none can sever — The union of hearts — the union of hands — And the Flag of the Union forever And ever! The Flag of our Union forever!
Page 147 - The curtains of Yesterday drop down, the curtains of To-morrow roll up ; but Yesterday and To-morrow both are. Pierce through the TimeElement, glance into the Eternal. Believe what thou findest written in the sanctuaries of Man's Soul, even as all Thinkers, in all ages, have devoutly read it there : that Time and Space are...
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Page 78 - Glory to God and our country, and all honor to our comrades in arms, toward whom we are marching! A little more labor, a little more toil on our part, the great race is won, and our Government stands regenerated, after four long years of war.
Page 160 - And furthermore, as president of the Board of Supervisors, I beg you to take immediate steps to relieve me as superintendent, the moment the State determines to secede, for on no earthly account will I do any act or think any thought hostile to or in defiance of the old Government of the United States.
Page 54 - In boldness of plan, rapidity of execution, and brilliancy of routes, these operations will compare most favorably with those of Napoleon about Ulm. You and your army have well deserved the gratitude of your country, and it will be the boast of your children that their fathers were of the heroic army which reopened the Mississippi river.