...to relieve us very soon. The emergency of the case demands prompt and decided action on your part. If you can't feed us, you had better surrender us,...lie here and perish ; if they do love their country, self-preservation is the first law of nature, ;uij hunger will compel a man to do almost anything....

...to relieve us very soon. The emergency of the case demands prompt and decided action on your part. If you can't feed us, you had better surrender us....noble army to disgrace themselves by desertion. I tell y{m plainly men are not going to lie here and perish ; if they do love their country, self-preservation...

...to relieve us very soon. The emergency of the case demands prompt and decided action on your part. " If you can't feed us you had better surrender us —...lie here and perish. If they do love their country, self-preservation is the first law of nature, and* hunger will compel a man to do almost anything....

...to relieve us very soon. The emergency of the case demands prompt and decided act' on on your part. If you can't feed us, you had better surrender us,...lie here and perish ; if they do love their country, self-preservation is the first law of nature, an«J hunger will compel a man to do almost anything....

...scarcely to keep soul and body together, much less to stand the hardships we are called upon to stand. If you can't feed us, you had better surrender us,...this noble army to disgrace themselves by desertion. This army is now ripe to mutiny unless it can be fed. ' ' This communication probably did not represent...

...scarcely to keep soul and body together, much less to stand the hardships we are called upon to stand. ... If you can't feed us, you had better surrender us,...this noble army to disgrace themselves by desertion. . . . Men are not going to lie here and perish if they do love their country dearly. . . . Hunger will...

...us, horrible as the idea is, than suffer this noble army to disgrace themselves by desertion. . . . Men are not going to lie here and perish if they do love their country dearly. . . . Hunger will compel a man to do almost anything. . . . This army is now ripe for mutiny unless...

...French cooks know ; but doubtless the mule meat of sieges is lean and tough. rible as the idea is. ... I tell you plainly, men are not going to lie here and perish ; if they do love their country, self-preservation is the first law of nature, and hunger will compel a man to do almost anything. You...

..."to do anything.1' "I tell ynu plainly," he said, "you had better surrender us if you can't feed us. Men are not going to lie here and perish, if they do love their country." Inka, Holly Springs, and Oxford, were occupied by the enemy in the first advance southward. At all...

...anything." •- I tell you plainly," he said, "you had better surrender us if you can't feed us. Alen are not going to lie here and perish, if they do love their country." Inka, Holly Springs, and Oxford, were occupied by the enemy in the first advance southward. At all...