Robert E. Lee and the Southern Confederacy, 1807-1870Putnam's Sons, 1897 - 467 Seiten |
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Robert E. Lee and the Southern Confederacy: 1807-1870 Henry Alexander White M a,Henry White Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2013 |
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A. P. Hill advance Anderson Army of Northern artillery assault attack batteries began Bridge brigades brought Burnside Burnside's campaign capture cavalry Cemetery Ridge centre Chickahominy Cold Harbor column command Confederacy Congress Culp's Hill Culpeper Custis D. H. Hill defence division Early eastward enemy Ewell Ewell's face Federal army Federal soldiers Federal troops field fire Ford forward Fredericksburg Frémont front Gordonsville Grant Hagerstown Hancock's Harper's Ferry heavy guns held Hill's Hooker's hour hundred intrenchments Jackson July June Lee wrote Lee's right left wing line of battle Longstreet Manassas McClellan McLaws Meade Meade's miles morning Mountain moved movement muskets night North northern bank Northern Virginia numbers o'clock Pickett's plank road Pope Porter's position Potomac President Davis Rapidan Rappahannock ready rear regiments Richmond Ridge right flank right wing River ROBERT E rode Seminary Ridge Sharpsburg slavery South Southern southward stood Stuart thousand tion turnpike Union Valley Washington
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Seite 83 - The states have their status in the Union, and they have no other legal status. If they break from this, they can only do so against law and by revolution.
Seite 417 - You will take with you the satisfaction that proceeds from the consciousness of duty faithfully performed ; and I earnestly pray that a merciful God will extend to you His blessing and protection. With an unceasing admiration of your constancy and devotion to your country, and a grateful 'remembrance of your kind and generous consideration of myself, I bid you an affectionate farewell. RE LEE, General.
Seite 414 - After four years of arduous service marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources. I need not tell the survivors of so many hard fought battles who have remained steadfast to the last that I have consented to this result from no distrust of them. But feeling that valor and devotion could accomplish nothing that could compensate for the loss that...
Seite 281 - It must be remembered that we make war only upon armed men, and that we cannot take vengeance for the wrongs our people have suffered without lowering ourselves in the eyes of all whose abhorrence has been excited by the atrocities of our enemy, and offending against Him to whom vengeance belongeth, without whose favor and support our efforts must all prove in vain.
Seite 79 - Nay : we hold, with Jefferson, to the inalienable right of communities to alter or abolish forms of government that have become oppressive or injurious ; and, if the Cotton States shall decide that they can do better out of the Union than in it, we insist on letting them go in peace.
Seite 164 - I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies — from an army whose business it has been to seek the adversary, and to beat him when found, whose policy has been attack and not defence.
Seite 78 - The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed, in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued in the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation, in 1778 ; and, finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was to form a more perfect Union.
Seite 79 - We hope never to live in a republic, whereof one section is pinned to the residue by bayonets.
Seite 93 - It would have been presented at once, but for the struggle it has cost me to separate myself from a service to which I have devoted all the best years of my life, and all the ability I possessed.
Seite 260 - I have just received your note, informing me that you were wounded. I cannot express my regret at the occurrence. Could I have directed events, I should have chosen, for the good of the country, to have been disabled in your stead. I congratulate you upon the victory which is due to your skill and energy.