Personal Recollections of the War of the Rebellion: Addresses Delivered Before the New York Commandery of the Loyal Legion of the United States, 1883- [First]- Series... |
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... hands . When he failed in that battle to employ it to its fullest extent and annihilate Lee's army , it is no wonder he should endeavor to single out some one to share the respon- sibility of that failure ; he would have been more than ...
... hands . When he failed in that battle to employ it to its fullest extent and annihilate Lee's army , it is no wonder he should endeavor to single out some one to share the respon- sibility of that failure ; he would have been more than ...
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... hands to execute ; should have seen all the enemy proposed to do , and so pre- pared their own plans as to checkmate and overwhelm him , as with the proper dispositions they might easily have done . But they did none of these things ...
... hands to execute ; should have seen all the enemy proposed to do , and so pre- pared their own plans as to checkmate and overwhelm him , as with the proper dispositions they might easily have done . But they did none of these things ...
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... hand in it . But although the top of the mountain was secured , the enemy still clung to the base of it , and all the ground at the base of Round Top proper , with the elevated spur and the Devil's Den , from which the left of our line ...
... hand in it . But although the top of the mountain was secured , the enemy still clung to the base of it , and all the ground at the base of Round Top proper , with the elevated spur and the Devil's Den , from which the left of our line ...
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... hand all covered with blood . He had an impediment in his speech , and as he came up to me he said : " M - m - major , don't you want a b - b - bridle ? " He had stopped under that terrible fire to unbuckle the bridle from Colonel ...
... hand all covered with blood . He had an impediment in his speech , and as he came up to me he said : " M - m - major , don't you want a b - b - bridle ? " He had stopped under that terrible fire to unbuckle the bridle from Colonel ...
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... hand , and at once covering him I commanded him to drop that rifle , which he promptly did , and they both came out and surrendered . They proved to be a captain and a private . On coming out the captain asked me what he should do . It ...
... hand , and at once covering him I commanded him to drop that rifle , which he promptly did , and they both came out and surrendered . They proved to be a captain and a private . On coming out the captain asked me what he should do . It ...
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Page 123 - All charges of war, and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defence or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in Congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury...
Page 40 - Bringing to Winchester fresh dismay, The affrighted air with a shudder bore, Like a herald in haste to the chieftain's door, The terrible grumble, and rumble, and roar, Telling the battle was on once more, And Sheridan twenty miles away. And wider still those billows of war Thundered along the horizon's bar; And louder yet into Winchester rolled The roar of that red sea uncontrolled...
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Page 162 - ... There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted. Provided always that any person escaping into the same from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Page 131 - Comfort, all along the sea coast to the southward two hundred miles, and all that space and circuit of land, lying from the sea coast of the precinct aforesaid, up into the land, throughout from sea to sea, west and northwest...
Page 158 - I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787.
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Page 41 - mid a storm of huzzas, And the wave of retreat checked its course there, because The sight of the master compelled it to pause. With foam and with dust the black charger was gray; By the flash of his eye, and the red nostril's play, He seemed to the whole great army to say, "I have brought you Sheridan all the way From Winchester down to save the day!