Proceedings of the Reunion Society of Vermont Officers, ... with Addresses Delivered at Its Meetings, Volume 2Free Press Association, 1906 - Local history |
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... hour and he had asked a com- rade to give him some points on the early days of the infantry . The friend stated that the first fight between infantry was that of Cain and Abel . Everyone knows that the infantry is the bone and strength ...
... hour and he had asked a com- rade to give him some points on the early days of the infantry . The friend stated that the first fight between infantry was that of Cain and Abel . Everyone knows that the infantry is the bone and strength ...
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... of General Hancock . " Gen. Walker held the closest attention of the audience for an hour . The allusions to Stannard , Sedgwick , Sheridan , and Grant , and other salient passages of the address 2 TWENTY - THIRD REUNION . 17.
... of General Hancock . " Gen. Walker held the closest attention of the audience for an hour . The allusions to Stannard , Sedgwick , Sheridan , and Grant , and other salient passages of the address 2 TWENTY - THIRD REUNION . 17.
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... hour and a half scourged the plain and the low crest on which our troops lay , until the very earth seemed to shake , and the air was full of bursting shells and whistling fragments carrying death to every quarter . They had seen the ...
... hour and a half scourged the plain and the low crest on which our troops lay , until the very earth seemed to shake , and the air was full of bursting shells and whistling fragments carrying death to every quarter . They had seen the ...
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... hours been seen , a general of- ficer of princely port and of a singularly bold and commanding aspect . It was Hancock , come to throw the Vermont brigade upon the flank of the Confederate column already pressing up the slope on which ...
... hours been seen , a general of- ficer of princely port and of a singularly bold and commanding aspect . It was Hancock , come to throw the Vermont brigade upon the flank of the Confederate column already pressing up the slope on which ...
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... hours by the road on which a gallant and devoted corps was just setting out for a night march to an anticipated battle in the morning ; and seen a column which , from the lack of proper oversight and energetic control by commanders and ...
... hours by the road on which a gallant and devoted corps was just setting out for a night march to an anticipated battle in the morning ; and seen a column which , from the lack of proper oversight and energetic control by commanders and ...
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Page 182 - The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Page 63 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly: If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, 'With his surcease, success ; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here. But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, — We'd jump the life to come...
Page 185 - Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off...
Page 182 - Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Page 269 - Finally, it should be the earnest and paramount aim of the military administration to win the confidence, respect, and affection of the inhabitants of the Philippines by assuring to them in every possible way that full measure of individual rights and liberties which is the heritage of free peoples, and by proving to them that the mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation, substituting the mild sway of justice and right for arbitrary rule.
Page 194 - Government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress.
Page 244 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself, like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks...
Page 367 - If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persons in Washington. " You have done your best to sacrifice this army.
Page 182 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, "The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 167 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect and defend