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The Annals of the War Written by Leading Participants North and South, 1879 ... Alexander K. McClure No preview available - 2018 |
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advance appeared arms army arrived artillery attack authorities batteries battle body brigade called camp campaign Captain carried cause cavalry charge close Colonel column command Confederate Corps crossed Davis Department direction Division duty early effect enemy enemy's engaged exchange fact Federal field fight fire flank followed force forward four front Gettysburg give given ground guns hand head held Hill horses hundred infantry Jackson Lee's letter Lieutenant Major Michigan miles military morning moved movement never night North occupied officers once operations ordered party passed position Potomac present President prisoners reached rear received regiment remained result retreat Richmond river road says sent side soldiers soon South Southern Stuart success taken thousand took troops turned Union United Virginia Washington whole wounded
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Page 391 - Were a star quenched on high, For ages would its light, Still travelling downward from the sky, Shine on our mortal sight. So when a great man dies, For years beyond our ken The light he leaves behind him lies Upon the paths of men.
Page 208 - The country looks to this army to relieve it from the devastation and disgrace of a hostile invasion. Whatever fatigues and sacrifices we may be called upon to undergo, let us have In view constantly the magnitude of the interests involved, and let each man determine to do his duty, leaving to an all-controlling Providence the decision• of the contest.
Page 404 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Page 459 - But the contest without a piano was like the play of Hamlet with the part of Hamlet left out.
Page 146 - It had not been intended to fight a general battle at such a distance from our base unless attacked by the enemy; but finding ourselves unexpectedly confronted by the Federal army, it became a matter of difficulty to withdraw through the mountains with our large trains.
Page 740 - Ferry, supplying their places in some sort, calling in militia from the adjacent States. We also have eighteen cannon on the road to Harper's Ferry, of which arm there is not a single one at that point.
Page 739 - You are instructed, laying aside for the present the movement on Richmond, to put 20,000 men in motion at once for the Shenandoah, moving on the line or in advance of the line of the Manassas Gap Railroad.
Page 51 - ... observance shall be permitted to remain at their homes and pursue in good faith their accustomed avocations. Those who refuse shall be conducted south beyond the extreme pickets of this army and be notified that if found again anywhere within our lines or at any point in rear they will be considered spies and subjected to the extreme rigor of military law.
Page 551 - That nothing in this act shall be construed to authorize a change in the relation which the said slaves shall bear toward their owners, except by consent of the owners and of the States in which they may reside, and in pursuance of the laws thereof.
Page 430 - If you are coming at all you must come at once, or I cannot give you proper support; but the enemy's fire has not slackened at all; at least eighteen guns are still firing from the cemetery itself.