Robert E. Lee and the Southern Confederacy, 1807-1870 |
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Robert E. Lee and the Southern Confederacy: 1807-1870 Henry Alexander White M a,Henry White No preview available - 2013 |
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A. P. Hill advance Anderson Army of Northern artillery assault attack batteries began Bridge brigades Burnside Burnside's campaign capture cavalry centre Chickahominy Cold Harbor column command Confederacy Culp's Hill Culpeper D. H. Hill defence division Early eastward enemy Ewell Ewell's Federal army Federal soldiers Federal troops field fire Ford forward Franklin Fredericksburg Frémont front Gordonsville Grant Hagerstown Hancock Harper's Ferry heavy guns held Hill's Hooker's hour hundred intrenchments Jackson James River June Lee wrote Lee's army Lee's right left flank left wing line of battle Longstreet Manassas McClellan McLaws Meade Meade's miles morning Mountain moved movement muskets night North northern bank Northern Virginia Petersburg Pickett plank road Porter's position Potomac President Davis Rapidan Rappahannock ready rear regiments Richmond Ridge right flank right wing River ROBERT E Second Corps Seminary Ridge Sharpsburg slavery South Southern southward stood Stuart thousand tion turnpike Union Valley Warrenton Washington
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Page 89 - The states have their status in the Union, and they have no other legal status. If they break from this, they can only do so against law and by revolution.
Page 393 - You will take with you the satisfaction that proceeds from the consciousness of duty faithfully performed ; and I earnestly pray that a merciful God will extend to you His blessing and protection. With an unceasing admiration of your constancy and devotion to your country, and a grateful 'remembrance of your kind and generous consideration of myself, I bid you an affectionate farewell. RE LEE, General.
Page 390 - After four years of arduous service marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources. I need not tell the survivors of so many hard fought battles who have remained steadfast to the last that I have consented to this result from no distrust of them. But feeling that valor and devotion could accomplish nothing that could compensate for the loss that...
Page 259 - It must be remembered that we make war only upon armed men, and that we cannot take vengeance for the wrongs our people have suffered without lowering ourselves in the eyes of all whose abhorrence has been excited by the atrocities of our enemy, and offending against Him to whom vengeance belongeth, without whose favor and support our efforts must all prove in vain.
Page 85 - Nay : we hold, with Jefferson, to the inalienable right of communities to alter or abolish forms of government that have become oppressive or injurious ; and, if the Cotton States shall decide that they can do better out of the Union than in it, we insist on letting them go in peace.
Page 170 - 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 84 - The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed, in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued in the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation, in 1778 ; and, finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was to form a more perfect Union.
Page 85 - We hope never to live in a republic, whereof one section is pinned to the residue by bayonets.
Page 251 - 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 396 - I think it the duty of every citizen, in the present condition of the country, to do all in his power to aid in the restoration of peace and harmony, and in no way to oppose the policy of the State or General Governments directed to that object.