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Common terms and phrasesA. P. Hill afterwards Amelia Court House amongst Appomattox Appomattox Court House Appomattox River arms army artillery asked battle Blandford Bollingbrook boys brigade Brunswick County called Captain captured cavalry charge Charlotte Court House Chesterfield Court House church citizens Claiborne Colonel command Confederate Court House Crater death Democratic elected enemy eral father Federal fight fire Fitz Lee followed friends front gentleman ginia Government guns Harpers Ferry honor horse hospital hundred infantry John knew lady Lee's Lincoln lines lived Mahone Mahone's miles morning never night North Carolina Northern officer parole party pastorate patriotic peace Petersburg political practise President prisoners regiment Republican Richmond road says scalawag secession Senate sent siege of Petersburg slave soldier soon South Southern surgeon tion told took troops Union Virginia vote Whig whilst wounded Yankee young Popular passagesPage 39 - Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days ! None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise. Page 59 - When I remember all The friends, so linked together, I've seen around me fall, Like leaves in wintry weather, I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed. Page 170 - How absurd it is to suppose that, when different parties enter into a compact for certain purposes, either can disregard any one provision and expect, nevertheless, the other to observe the rest. Page 156 - I have only to say that the militia of Virginia will not be furnished to the powers at Washington for any such use or purpose as they have in view. Page 158 - What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted ? Thrice is he armed, that hath his quarrel just ; And he but naked, though locked up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. Page 156 - ... will not be furnished to the powers at Washington for any such use or purpose as they have in view. Your object is to subjugate the Southern States, and a requisition made upon me for such an object — an object in my judgment not within the purview of the Constitution or the act of 1795 — will not be complied with. You have chosen to inaugurate civil war, and, having done so, we will meet in a spirit as determined as the Administration has exhibited toward the South. Page 347 - No freeman," ran the memorable article that lies at the base of our whole judicial system, " shall be seized or imprisoned, or dispossessed, or outlawed, or in any way brought to ruin: we will not go against any man nor send against him, save by legal judgment of his peers or by the law of the land." " To no man will we sell," runs another, " or deny, or delay, right or justice. Page xiii - Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, ' Our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain. Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise !* Each stamps its image as the other flies. Page 186 - My Lord, I can touch a bell on my right hand and order the arrest of a citizen of Ohio. I can touch a bell again, and order the imprisonment of a citizen of New -York ; and no power on earth, except that of the President, can release them. Can the Queen of England do as much ? " Then follows a list of over a hundred of the victims of the bastile ; from Colonel Lambdin P. Page 169 - Whenever it shall appear that these causes are radical and permanent, a separation by equitable arrangement, will be preferable to an alliance by constraint, among nominal friends, but real enemies, inflamed by mutual hatred and jealousy, and inviting by intestine divisions, contempt, and aggression from abroad. References from web pagesJohn Herbert Claiborne, Seventy-five years in old Virginia with ... SEVENTY-FIVE-YEARS-IN-OLD-VIRGINIA-WITH-SOME-ACCOUNT-OF-THE-LIFE ... JSTOR: Confederate General Hospitals: Establishment and Organization Robert E. Lee (by Freeman) — Vol. IV Chap. 9 Bibliographic information
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