 Russell describes as a fine-looking gentleman, with a clear liquid blue eye, very agreeable manner, and marked with good taste. It is here inserted in a note at foot, as I am unwilling to give it a place in my text.* * " There is a man now vegetating...  Secession; a Folly and a Crime - Page 12by Joseph Reed Ingersoll - 1861 - 29 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Joseph Reed Ingersoll - Secession - 1861 - 52 pages
...confederate government, seems to utter reproof, when he declares in a sermon at the departure of the Pulasld Guards for Virginia, that priests of the sanctuary...years in The other " editorial" purports to describe a Hungarian body of volunteers, who, Mr. Russell says, were " a fine soldierly-looking set of men."... | |
 | Sir William Howard Russell - History - 1861 - 152 pages
...command of the forces at that point. His qualifications for the command of such a squad of villains and cut-throats are: He is a miserable hound, a dirty...blackguard, has served his regular five years in the penitentiary, and keeps his hide continually full of Cincinnati whisky, which he buys by the barrel... | |
 | Sir William Howard Russell - History - 1861 - 156 pages
...forces at that point. His qualifications for the command of such a squad of villains and cnt-throats are: He is a miserable hound, a dirty dog, a sociable...blackguard, has served his regular five years in the penitentiary, and keeps his hide continually full of Cincinnati whisky, which he buys by the barrel... | |
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