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Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesA. P. Hill action advance arms Army of Northern Army of Tennessee artillery assault Atlanta attack batteries battle Beauregard Bragg Breckinridge brigade brilliant campaign captured cavalry column command Confederacy Confederate army corps crossed D. H. Hill defeat defence Department desperate division duty early Eichmond Eiver enemy enemy's engaged Ewell federacy Federal army field fight fire Fitzhugh Lee flank force fought front gallant Georgia guns Hardee Harper's Ferry honour Hood horse infantry J. E. B. Stuart Jackson Johnston Kentucky killed Lee's Longstreet Major-General Manassas mand McClellan McLaws ment miles military Mississippi Missouri moved movement never night North Northern Virginia officers Polk position Potomac President Davis prisoners rear regiment reinforcements remarkable retreat river road rode sent Sherman soldiers soon South Carolina Southern Stuart success superiour surrender tion troops Valley Vicksburg victory Washington West Point wounded Popular passagesPage 60 - ... state ; that standing armies in time of peace should be avoided as dangerous to liberty ; and that in all cases the military should be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power. Page 409 - This was the noblest Roman of them all : All the conspirators, save only he, Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He only, in a general honest thought, And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle; and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, This was a man! Page 215 - I have just received your note, informing me that you were wounded. I cannot express my regret at the occurrence. Could I have directed events, I should have chosen, for the good of the country, to have been disabled in your stead. I congratulate you upon the victory which is due to your skill and energy. Page 399 - I am directed by the Secretary of War to inform you that, as you have failed to arrest the advance of the enemy to the vicinity of Atlanta, far in the interior of Georgia, and express no confidence that you can defeat or repel him, you are hereby relieved from the command of the Army and Department of Tennessee, -which you will immediately turn over to General Hood. Page 591 - Press has its evil eye in every house, and its black hand in every appointment in the state, from a president to a postman ; while, with ribald slander for its only stock in trade, it is the standard literature of an enormous class, who must find their reading in a newspaper, or they will not read at all ; so long must its odium be upon the country's head, and so long must the evil it works be plainly visible in the Republic. Page 56 - State, in the impending conflict with the United States, shall be under the chief control and direction of the President of the Confederate States... Page 86 - Burnside this is the battle of the war. He must hold his ground till dark at any cost. I will send him Miller's battery. I can do nothing more. I have no infantry." Then, as the messenger was riding away, he called him back. " Tell him if he cannot hold his ground, then the bridge, to the last man ! — always the bridge ! If the bridge is lost, all is lost. Page 161 - I will meet you, or will designate officers to meet any officers you may name for the same purpose, at any point agreeable to you, for the purpose of arranging definitely the terms upon which the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia will be received. Page 55 - I would have much preferred that your choice had fallen upon an abler man. Trusting in Almighty God, an approving conscience, and the aid of my fellow-citizens, I devote myself to the service of my native State, in whose behalf alone will I ever again draw my sword. Page 82 - Believing that the people of Maryland possessed a spirit too lofty to submit to such a government, the people of the South have long wished to aid you in throwing off this foreign yoke, to enable you again to enjoy the inalienable rights of freemen, and restore the independence and sovereignty of your State. Bibliographic information
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