 The whole south is in a state of revolution, into which Virginia, after a long struggle, has been drawn; and, though I recognize no necessity for this state of things, and would have forborne and pleaded to the end for a redress of grievances, real or...  Reunion of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland - Seite 71von Society of the Army of the Cumberland. Reunion - 1870Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Elizabeth Deering Hanscom - 1910 - 444 Seiten
...struggle, has been diawn; and though \ rccogni/e no necessity lor this state of things, and Would h.ive forborne and pleaded to the end for redress of grievances, real or supjioscd, yvl in my own person I had to meet the question whether 1 should take part against my native... | |
 | Anna Elizabeth Foote, Avery Warner Skinner - 1910 - 354 Seiten
...struggle, has been drawn; and though I recognize no necessity for this state of things, and would have pleaded to the end for redress of grievances real or supposed, yet I had to meet the question whether I should take part against my native state. With all my devotion... | |
 | Henry Frank - 1911 - 280 Seiten
...a passage ... in a letter to his sister: 'We are now in a state of war which will yield to nothing. The whole South is in a state of revolution, into...for redress of grievances, real or supposed, yet, . . . with all my devotion to the Union and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen,... | |
 | John Spencer Bassett, Edwin Mims, William Henry Glasson, William Preston Few, William Kenneth Boyd, William Hane Wannamaker - 1911 - 426 Seiten
...balance of the Union? The motives which governed his action were clearly expressed by him at the time. "The whole South is in a state of Revolution, into...which Virginia after a long struggle has been drawn," he wrote his sister, Mrs. Marshall, on April 20, 1861, "and though I recognize no necessity for this... | |
 | Randolph Harrison McKim - 1917 - 284 Seiten
...would gladly have given them all up to save the Union; he "recognized no necessity" for secession; he would have "forborne and pleaded to the end for redress of grievances, real or supposed"; he had a deep feeling "of loyalty and duty as an American citizen"; he was strongly attached to the... | |
 | Rebecca Latimer Felton - 1919 - 318 Seiten
...General Lee wrote a letter to his own sister, which is extant, "I am. grieved at my inability to see you. The whole South is in a state of revolution, into which Virginia has been drawn after a long struggle, and though I recognize no necessity for this state of things,... | |
 | Edward Howard Griggs - 1927 - 392 Seiten
...to many before me deep and lasting regret. Now we are in a state of war which will yield to nothing. The whole South is in a state of revolution into which...the end for redress of grievances, real or supposed, *Lee, letter to General Scott, Arlington, Va., April 20th, 1861: Jones, Life and Letters of Lee, pp.... | |
 | John Spencer Bassett, Edwin Mims, William Henry Glasson, William Preston Few, William Kenneth Boyd, William Hane Wannamaker - 1911 - 446 Seiten
...balance of the Union? The motives which governed his action were clearly expressed by him at the time. "The whole South is in a state of Revolution, into...which Virginia after a long struggle has been drawn," he wrote his sister, Mrs. Marshall, on April 20, 1861, "and though I recognize no necessitv for this... | |
 | Eugene M. Wait - 1999 - 308 Seiten
...state of war which will yield nothing." Virginia has now been drawn into this revolution. He recognized "no necessity for this state of things, and would have forborne and pleaded to the end for a redress of grievances, real or supposed, yet in my own person I had to meet the question whether... | |
 | Wiley Sword - 2007 - 472 Seiten
..."Now we are in a state of war which will yield to nothing," he confided to his sister on April 20. "The whole South is in a state of revolution, into...which Virginia, after a long struggle, has been drawn. ... I recognize no necessity for this state of things, . . . yet in my own person I had to raise the... | |
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