Mohun; or, The last days of Lee and his paladinsIndyPublish.com, 1869 - 624 páginas 1869. Final memoirs of a staff officer serving in Virginia. A well-known American novelist, often referred to as the Sir Walter Scott of the Southern border, a poet, his writings relate almost entirely to Virginia, and describe the life, manners, and history of the people of that state. His war-books are records of personal observation and opinion. Mohun is a sequel to Surry of Eagle's Nest, a picture of military incidents in the Confederate cavalry, in autobiographical form, purporting to be from the manuscript of Col. Surry. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. |
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Página 463 - If any man can show just cause why they may not lawfully be joined together, let him now speak, or else hereafter forever hold his peace.
Página 410 - I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift^ the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton.
Página 41 - In one word, I would not take any risk of being entangled upon the river, like an ox jumped half over a fence and liable to be torn by dogs front and rear without a fair chance to gore one way or kick the other.
Página 213 - He replied, " Easy, but willing to die, if God and my country think I have fulfilled my destiny and done my duty.
Página 484 - Behind, and on either flank, an ubiquitous and increasingly adventurous enemy- — every mud-hole and every rise in the road choked with blazing wagons- — the air filled with the deafening reports of ammunition exploding, and shells bursting when touched by the flames — -dense columns of smoke ascending to heaven from the burning and exploding vehicles — exhausted men, worn-out mules and horses, lying down side by side — gaunt famine glaring hopelessly from sunken, lack-lustre eyes — dead...
Página 486 - GENERAL: I received at a late hour your note of to-day. In mine of yesterday I did not intend to propose the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, but to ask the terms of your proposition. To be frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender of this army...
Página 318 - Then the fierce trumpet-flourish From earth to heaven arose, The kites know well the long stern swell That bids the Romans close. Then the good sword of Aulus Was lifted up to slay: Then, like a crag down Apennine, Rushed Auster through the fray.
Página 480 - I have got my army safe out of its breastworks," he said, " and, in order to follow me, my enemy must abandon his lines, and can derive no further benefit from his railroads or from James river.
Página 476 - This is a bad business, colonel!"* I had heard him say, at the moment when the shell burst near him in the morning. I heard but one other allusion which he made to the situation. "Well, colonel...
Página 496 - Appomattox Court House, Va. April 10, 1865. The bearer, pri. JA White, of Co. M, First Regt. of Texas Vols., a paroled Prisoner of the Army of Northern Virginia, has permission to go to his home and there remain undisturbed.
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The Immoderate Past: The Image of the Southern Gentleman in History and ... Anna Jacoba Leenhouts Vista de fragmentos - 1982 |