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adjutant admiration advance appearance assault Atlanta attack battle of Chickamauga battle of Shiloh battle-field battles of Chattanooga became began Bragg brigade Buckner Buell called camp campaign Captain capture cavalry character Chattanooga cigar Colonel command corps Crittenden daring defeat discipline division Dutch Republic effect enemy engaged eral excitement fact field fight fire flank force fought friends front Geary Gordon Granger Granger Grant guns Halleck head-quarters Hooker Howard illustration James Joe Johnston John JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY Johnson Kentucky laughed leader less Logan Longstreet Louisville manner McClellan McCook ment military mind mountain movement Nashville naturally Negley negroes never occasion offensive officers Ohio organization person position Potomac President rear rebel army rebellion regiment remarkable replied Resaca retire retreat Rosecrans Rosecrans's Rousseau Sher Sheridan Sherman Shiloh smokes soldiers Steedman Stone River success Tennessee Thomas Thomas's thousand tion troops Union veterans West Point
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Page 48 - 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 35 - A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay...
Page 29 - Atlanta, but in all America. To secure this we must stop the war that now desolates our once happy and favored country. To stop the war we must defeat the rebel armies that are arrayed against the laws and Constitution, which all must respect and obey.
Page 120 - We pardon General Grant's smoking a cigar as he entered the "smouldering ruins of the town of Vicksburg. A little stage effect is admissible in great captains, considering that Napoleon at Milan wore the little cocked hat and sword of Marengo, and that snuff was the inevitable concomitant of victory in the great Frederick. General Grant is a noble fellow, and, by the terms of capitulation he accorded...