Whatever may happen, cherish the consolation that I was engaged in the performance of a sacred duty; and tonight, thinking over the probabilities of tomorrow, and the occurrences of the past, I am perfectly content to accept whatever my fortune may be,... The Massachusetts register. Serial no., 94 - Page 125by Massachusetts register - 1862Full view - About this book
| American periodicals - 1861 - 580 pages
...headquarters, Camp LINCOLN, May 23d! We were permitted to read it: ' MY DEAR FATHER AND MOTHER : . . . Whatever may happen, cherish the consolation, that...I was engaged in the performance of a sacred duty. ... I am perfectly content to accept whatever my fortune may be, confident that HE who knoweth even... | |
| James Grant Wilson - Illinois - 1862 - 212 pages
...hoily contested, as I am just informed a large force was to have arrived there to-day. Should this happen, my dear parents, it may be my lot to be injured...the probabilities of the morrow and the occurrences of the past, 1 am perfectly willing to accept whatever my portion may be, confident that He who noteth... | |
| Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 764 pages
...will be hotly contested, as I am just informed a large force has arrived there to-day. Should this happen, my dear parents, it may be my lot to be injured...; and to-night, thinking over the probabilities of to-morrow, and the ocr currences of the past, I am perfectly content to accept whatever my fortune... | |
| Orville James Victor - United States - 1862 - 412 pages
...will be hotly contested, as I am just informed a large force have arrived there to-day. Should this happen, my dear parents, it may be my lot to be injured in some manner. Whartever may happen, cherish the consolation that I was engaged in the performance of a sacred duty... | |
| John Stevens Cabot Abbott - United States - 1863 - 598 pages
...be hotly contested, as I am just informed that a large force has arrived there to-day. Should this happen, my dear parents, it may be my lot -to be injured...performance of a sacred duty ; and to-night, thinking of the probabilities of to-morrow, and the occurrences of the past, I am perfectly content to accept... | |
| Frank Moore - Political ballads and songs - 1864 - 390 pages
...addressed to his parents, penned but a few hours previous to his assassination, Col. Ellsworth says : " Whatever may happen, cherish the consolation that...the probabilities of the morrow and the occurrences of the past, I am perfectly content to accept whatever my fortune may be, confident that he who noteth... | |
| David Thomas - African Americans - 1868 - 222 pages
...will be hotly contested, as I am just informed that a Urge force has arrived there to-day. Should this happen, my dear parents, it may be my lot to be injured...performance of a sacred duty ; and to-night, thinking of the probabilities of to-morrow, and the occurrences of the past, I am perfectly content to accept... | |
| Mary Stephens Robinson - 1871 - 208 pages
...be hotly contested, as I am just informed that a large force has arrived there to-day. Should this happen, my dear parents, it may be my lot to be injured in some way. Whatever may happen, cherish the consolation that I was engaged in the performance of a sacred... | |
| Willard W. Glazier - Mexican War, 1846-1848 - 1880 - 474 pages
...the impending advance and the possibilities of personal injury. "Whatever may happen," he concludes, "cherish the consolation that I was engaged in the...duty; and to-night, thinking over the probabilities of to-morrow, and the occurrences of the past, I am perfectly content to accept •whatever my fortune... | |
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