 | Henry Howe - Virginia - 1845 - 616 pages
...or see my face no more." When this incident was related to Washington, shortly after its occurrence, he enthusiastically exclaimed, " Leave me but a banner...around me the men who will lift our bleeding country from the dust, and set her free." I have frequently heard, when a boy, an anecdote related by an old... | |
 | Henry Howe - Virginia - 1845 - 596 pages
...Washington, shortly after i curreuce, he enthusiastically exclaimed, " Leave me but a banner to plant upo mountains of Augusta, and I will rally around me the men who will lift our bl< country from the dust, and set her free." I have frequently heard, when a boy, an anecdote related... | |
 | Wills De Hass - Indians of North America - 1851 - 444 pages
...or see my face no more.' When this incident was related to Washington, shortly after its occurrence, he enthusiastically exclaimed, 'Leave me but a banner...around me the men who will lift our bleeding country from the dust, and set her free.' / " I have frequently heard, when a boy, an anecdote related by an... | |
 | Henry Howe - District of Columbis - 1852 - 614 pages
...or see my face no more." When this incident was related to Washington, shortly after its occurrence, he enthusiastically exclaimed, " Leave me but a banner...rally around me the men who will lift our bleeding counlry from the dust, and set her free." I have frequently heard, when a boy, an anecdote related... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1852 - 460 pages
...saying of Washington is more frequently quoted upon patriotic occasions in Virginia, than this : " Leave me but a banner to plant upon the mountains...around me the men who will lift our bleeding country from the dust, and set her free." The incident, however, which led to this remark, is not so generally... | |
 | Margaret Anthony Cabell - Lynchburg (Va.) - 1858 - 364 pages
...incident was related to General Washington, shortly after its occurrence, he enthusiastically exclaimed, f Leave me but a banner to plant upon the mountains...around me the men who will lift our bleeding country from the dust and set her free ! ' " HOWE'S History of Virginia. WILLIAM LEWIS, mentioned in the above... | |
 | John Lewis Peyton - 1867 - 282 pages
...shortly after its occurrence, when he was encamped in the snows of New York, defending that province, he enthusiastically exclaimed : " Leave me but a banner to plant upon the mountains of West Augusta, and I will rally around me the men who will lift our bleeding country from the dust,... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Virginia - 1870 - 322 pages
...or see my face no more." When this incident was related to Washington shortly after its occurrence, he enthusiastically exclaimed, ' Leave me but a banner...around me the men who will lift our bleeding country from the dust and set her free.' " enanters of Scotland ; and on the dispute between the Colonists... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - History - 1870 - 310 pages
...or see my face no more.' When this incident was related to Washington shortly after its occurrence, he enthusiastically exclaimed, * Leave me but a banner...around me the men who will lift our bleeding country from the dust and set her free.' " enanters of Scotland; and on the dispute between the Colonists and... | |
 | United States - 1873 - 626 pages
...defence of their native land." When her patriotic and noble words to her sons were recited to Washington, he enthusiastically exclaimed: "Leave me but a banner...around me the men who will lift our bleeding country from the dust and set her free." Col. William Lewis lived until his old age, upon the old homestead... | |
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Leave me but a banner to plant upon the mountains of Augusta, and I will rally around me the men who will lift our bleeding country from the dust, and set her free. 
