Marching to Victory: The Second Period of the War of the Rebellion Including the Year 1863, Volumen5Harper & brothers, 1888 - 491 páginas |
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... fighting a battle for the oppressed of every land ; and so , by their steadfast adherence to their convictions , the Government of Great Britain was constrained to refrain from any recognition of the Confederacy , except as a ...
... fighting a battle for the oppressed of every land ; and so , by their steadfast adherence to their convictions , the Government of Great Britain was constrained to refrain from any recognition of the Confederacy , except as a ...
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... Fight at Upperville ... 181 General Reynolds .. 187 69 General Meade . . 191 71 Movement of Union Army to Gettys- 74 burg 192 75 Burning of Columbia Bridge ... 193 78 Position of Union and Confederate Ar- 79 mies , Sunset , June 30 ...
... Fight at Upperville ... 181 General Reynolds .. 187 69 General Meade . . 191 71 Movement of Union Army to Gettys- 74 burg 192 75 Burning of Columbia Bridge ... 193 78 Position of Union and Confederate Ar- 79 mies , Sunset , June 30 ...
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... fighting for liberty and independence . On the banks of the Mississippi between Memphis and Vicksburg were the soldiers of the Union , who had won victories at Donelson , Shiloh , Cor- inth , Iuka , who had vainly tried to gain the ...
... fighting for liberty and independence . On the banks of the Mississippi between Memphis and Vicksburg were the soldiers of the Union , who had won victories at Donelson , Shiloh , Cor- inth , Iuka , who had vainly tried to gain the ...
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... fighting against their own best welfare . Many thousand soldiers in the Confederate ariny had enlisted voluntarily to sustain the Confederacy , but other thousands were there not from their own free choice . At the beginning of the ...
... fighting against their own best welfare . Many thousand soldiers in the Confederate ariny had enlisted voluntarily to sustain the Confederacy , but other thousands were there not from their own free choice . At the beginning of the ...
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... fighting to maintain what their Gov- ernment had deliberately abandoned . " This is the rich man's war and the poor man's fight , " ( ) were the words of John M. Botts , of Warrenton , Virginia . He had been a member of Congress before ...
... fighting to maintain what their Gov- ernment had deliberately abandoned . " This is the rich man's war and the poor man's fight , " ( ) were the words of John M. Botts , of Warrenton , Virginia . He had been a member of Congress before ...
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A. P. Hill advance artillery attack batteries battle Bragg bridge brigade Burnside cannon Captain captured cemetery Cemetery Hill Chambersburg Chancellorsville Chattanooga Chickamauga Colonel column command Confed Confederacy Confederate army Confederate troops Creek cross Culp's Hill division east Eleventh Corps Emmettsburg eral erates federate field fight flag flank fleet Ford Fort Wagner Fredericksburg front Gettysburg Grant ground gunboats guns Hooker horses Howard hundred infantry Jackson Jefferson Davis Lee's Little Round Top Longstreet Lookout Lord John Russell Meade miles Missionary Ridge Mississippi morning Morris Island mountain movement moving night o'clock officers opened fire Pemberton pickets Port Hudson position railroad reached rear regiments retreat Richmond river road rode Rosecrans rushed sent shells Sherman shot soldiers Stuart Sumter Tennessee thousand town turnpike Twelfth Corps Union army Union cavalry Union line Union troops Valley vessel Vicksburg wagons woods wounded
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Página 12 - We, even we here, hold the power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth.
Página 12 - The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Página 13 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite ; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold ; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand ; Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be.
Página 275 - His face, which is always placid and cheerful, did not show signs of the slightest disappointment, care, or annoyance; and he was addressing to every soldier he met a few words of encouragement, such as, "All this will come right in the end: we'll talk it over afterwards; but, in the mean time, all good men must rally. We want all good and true men just now,
Página 408 - Thou, and thou alone, must hear. Though my scarred and veteran legions Bear their eagles high no more, And my wrecked and scattered galleys Strew dark Actium's fatal shore ; Though no glittering guards surround me, Prompt to do their master's will, I must perish like a Roman, Die the great Triumvir still.
Página 13 - Ring out a slowly dying cause, And ancient forms of party strife; Ring in the nobler modes of life, With sweeter manners, purer laws.
Página 317 - Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert...
Página 258 - General, I have been a soldier all my life. I have been with soldiers engaged in fights by couples, by squads, companies, regiments, divisions, and armies, and should know, as well as any one, what soldiers can do. It is my opinion that no fifteen thousand men ever arrayed for battle can take that position,
Página 12 - Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Página 362 - At this moment, when one of the iron-clad vessels is on the point of departure from this kingdom, on its hostile errand against the United States...