 The very impersonation of honesty, integrity, and honor, he will stand to us as the beau ideal of the soldier and gentleman. Though he leaves no child to bear his name, the Old Army of the Cumberland, numbered by tens of thousands, called him father,...  Reunion of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland - Page 90by Society of the Army of the Cumberland. Reunion - 1870Full view - About this book
 | James Abram Garfield - United States - 1871 - 276 pages
...honesty, integrity, and honor, he will stand to us as the beau ideal of the soldier and gentleman. Though he leaves no child to bear his name, the Old...father, and will weep for him in tears of manly grief. His wife, who cheered him with her messages of love in the darkest hours of war, will mourn him now... | |
 | James Abram Garfield - Generals - 1871 - 64 pages
...honesty, integrity, and honor, he will stand to us as the beau ideal of the soldier and gentleman. Though he leaves no child to bear his name, the Old...father, and will weep for him in tears of manly grief. His wife, who cheered him with her messages of love in the darkest hours of war, will mourn him now... | |
 | 1871 - 560 pages
...will etand to us as the heau ideal of the soldier and gentleman. Though he leaves no child to hear his name, the Old Army of the Cumberland, numbered...father, and will weep for him in tears of manly grief. His wife, who cheered him with her messages of love in the darkest hours of war, will mourn him now... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1881 - 738 pages
...transactions; in his incorruptible integrity, and in his extreme, but unaffected, modesty. . . . " But his career is ended. Struck dead at his post of...character and his fame as a priceless and everlasting ptssessiou. "'O iron nerve to true occasion true! O fallen at length that tower of strength Which stood... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Presidents - 1881 - 698 pages
...No one knew until he was dead how strong was his hold on the hearts of the American people. livery citizen felt that a pillar of state had fallen; that...him in tears of manly grief.' "To us, his comrades, ho has left the rich legacy of his friendship. To his country and to mankind, he has left his character... | |
 | Thomas Budd Van Horne - Generals - 1882 - 552 pages
...of honesty, integrity, and honor, he will stand to us as the beau idealof the soldier and gentleman. Though he leaves no child to bear his name, the old...father, and will weep for him in tears of manly grief. His wife, who cheered him with hermessages of love in the darkest hours of war, will mourn him now... | |
 | Thomas Budd Van Horne - Generals - 1882 - 538 pages
...honesty, integrity, and honor, he will stand to us as the beau ideal of the soldier and gentleman. Though he leaves no child to bear his name, the old...father, and will weep for him in tears of manly grief. His wife, who cheered him with hermessages of love in the darkest hours of war, will mourn him now... | |
 | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - America - 1889 - 878 pages
...honesty, integrity, and honor, he will stand to posterity as the beau-idéal of the soldier and gentleman. Though he leaves no child to bear his name, the old Army of the Cumberland, numliered by tens of thousands, called him father, and will weep for him in tears of manly grief."... | |
 | Thomas Clement Fletcher - Generals - 1891 - 538 pages
...his death. "The General of the army has beautifully said in his order announcing the death of General Thomas : " Though he leaves no child to bear his name,...grief. " To us, his comrades, he has left the rich legac}^ of his friendship. To his country and to mankind he has left his character and his fame as... | |
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