Robert E. Lee, the SoldierHoughton Mifflin, 1925 - 313 pages |
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A. P. Hill advance Antietam April Army of Northern attack battle battle of Manassas battlefield Beauregard Burnside campaign cause cavalry Chancellorsville Chickahominy Civil Cold Harbour command Confederacy corps D. H. Hill defeat defence Despatches to Davis division Eastern Virginia enemy enemy's entrenchments Ewell federacy Federal army fighting Fitzhugh Lee flank Fredericksburg front generalship Gettysburg Gordonsville Grant Harper's Ferry Hooker J. E. B. Stuart J. E. Johnston Jackson James River July June knew Lee wrote Lee's Confidential Despatches Lincoln lines Longstreet Manassas manœuvre Maryland McClellan McDowell ment military mind mountains move movement night North Anna Northern Virginia numbers opposed Peninsula Petersburg Pope Pope's position President R. E. LEE Rapidan Rappahannock reënforcements retreat Richmond Robert Robert E Scott sent Shenandoah Shenandoah Valley soldier South Southern Spottsylvania Stonewall Jackson Stuart success superior tion Union United Valley victory Washington West Wilderness Yorktown
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Page 60 - The great and leading principle is, that the General Government emanated from the people of the several States, forming distinct political communities, and acting in their separate and sovereign capacity, and not from all of the people forming one aggregate political community...
Page 196 - 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 53 - perpetual union,' so expressed in the preamble, and for the establishment of a government, not a compact, which can only be dissolved by revolution, or the consent of all the people in convention assembled. It is idle to talk of secession. Anarchy would have been established, and not a government, by Washington, Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison, and the other patriots of the Revolution.
Page 131 - I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies — from an army whose business it has been to seek the adversary and to beat him when found — whose policy has been attack and not defence.
Page 52 - The South, in my opinion, has been aggrieved by the acts of the North, as you say. I feel the aggression, and am willing to take every proper step for redress.
Page 47 - Two days afterward, upon the invitation of the governor of Virginia, I repaired to Richmond, found that the convention then in session had passed the ordinance withdrawing the state from the Union, and accepted the commission of commander of its forces which was tendered me.
Page 47 - I declined the offer he made me, to take command of the army that was to be brought into the field; stating, as candidly and as courteously as I could, that, though opposed to secession and deprecating war, I could take no part in an invasion of the Southern States.
Page 219 - I have been prompted by these reflections more than once since my return from Pennsylvania to propose to Your Excellency the propriety of selecting another commander for this army.
Page 219 - The general remedy for the want of success in a military commander is his removal. This is natural, and in many instances proper. For, no matter what may be the ability of the officer, if he loses the confidence of his troops disaster must sooner or later ensue.
Page 234 - Among the gallant soldiers who have fallen in this war, General Stuart was second to none in valor, in zeal, and in unfaltering devotion to his country.