The Town and City of Waterbury, Connecticut, Volume 1Joseph Anderson, Anna Lydia Ward Price and Lee Company, 1896 - Connecticut |
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Page 483 - ... recommendations to their grateful country, and his prayers to the God of armies. May ample justice be done them here, and may the choicest of Heaven's favors, both here and hereafter, attend those who, under the Divine auspices, have secured innumerable blessings for others. With these wishes, and this benediction, the commander-in-chief is about to retire from service. The curtain of separation will soon be drawn, and the military scene to him will be closed for ever.
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