Life and Letters of Thomas Kilby Smith, Brevet Major-General, United States Volunteers, 1820-1887G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1898 - 487 páginas |
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Life and Letters of Thomas Kilby Smith, Brevet Major-General, United States ... Walter George Smith Sin vista previa disponible - 2008 |
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54th Ohio 55th Illinois A. J. Smith Admiral Porter Alexandria April arms artillery Banks battery battle battle of Shiloh Bayou beautiful boats camp CAMP DENNISON Captain cavalry Colonel Smith command Corinth DEAR MOTHER DEAR WIFE division duty enemy enemy's expedition field FIFTEENTH ARMY FIFTEENTH ARMY CORPS fight fire flag fleet forces FORT GAINES friends Grand Ecore Grant gunboats HEADQUARTERS 54TH REGT honor hope horses hundred infantry killed land letter Major-General mand Memphis ment miles military Milliken's Bend Mississippi morning Natchez never night O. V. INF o'clock officers Panama passed pickets Port Hudson rear received Red River Red River expedition regiment SEVENTEENTH ARMY CORPS Sherman Shiloh Shreveport skirmish soldiers South steamer Tennessee Thomas Kilby Smith thousand tion to-day transports troops Vicksburg W. T. SHERMAN wounded write yesterday Young's Point
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Página 403 - Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air : And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on ; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
Página 259 - By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me not if men my garments wear; Such outward things dwell not in my desires. But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.
Página 254 - ... me with matter for my dreams. Often I used to see, after painting upon the blank darkness, a sort of rehearsal whilst waking, a crowd of ladies, and perhaps a festival and dances. And I heard it said, or I said to myself, " These are English ladies from the unhappy times of Charles I. These are the wives and...
Página 254 - ... daughters of those who met in peace, and sat at the same tables, and were allied by marriage or by blood ; and yet, after a certain day in August, 1642, never smiled upon each other again, nor met but in the field of battle ; and at Marston Moor, at Newbury, or at Naseby, cut asunder all ties of love by the cruel sabre, and washed away in blood the memory of ancient friendship.
Página 239 - And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child : and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
Página 25 - As soon as possible move with them down the river to the vicinity of Vicksburg, and with the co-operation of the gunboat fleet under command of Flag-officer Porter proceed to the reduction of that place in such manner as circumstances, and your own judgment, may dictate.
Página 147 - Corps, with the temporary rank, pay, and emoluments of major in the Quartermaster's Department under the act of July 4, 1864. He held the latter position until October 7, 1865, when he was honorably mustered out of the service of the United States. It does not appear that there was any attempt, between March 27, 1865, and June 9, 1865, to fill the vacancy by another appointment.
Página 14 - The eyes and hopes of eight millions of people rest upon you; you are expected to show yourselves worthy of your lineage, worthy of the women of the South, whose noble devotion in this war has never been exceeded in any time. With such incentives to brave deeds, and with the trust that God is with us, your generals will lead you confidently to the combat — assured of success.
Página 23 - ... proud of his part. No amount of sophistry or words from the ! leaders of the rebellion can succeed in giving the ] evacuation of Corinth, under the circumstances, any other title than that of a signal defeat, more humiliating to them and their cause than if we had entered the place over the dead and mangled bodies of their soldiers.
Página 399 - I had ia heard spoken of as a belle, mid as the most splendid ornament of society wherever she went, has yet become almost as dear to me as a young sister. But she has become so from being so very excellent; because she has suffered much ; and because under a worldly exterior there is an unusually sound and pure intellect and a heart full of affection, which can cast aside all the vanities of the world for the power of gratifying those whom she loves. This fair daughter of Florida is surrounded by...