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... grave , not more eloquent or dignified than the Senator from Kentucky , yet with the Roman purple flowing over his shoulders , had risen in his place , surrounded by all the illus- trations of Roman glory , and declared that advancing ...
... grave , not more eloquent or dignified than the Senator from Kentucky , yet with the Roman purple flowing over his shoulders , had risen in his place , surrounded by all the illus- trations of Roman glory , and declared that advancing ...
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... grave a degraded , defeated , emasculated people , frightened by the results of one battle , and scared by the ... graves reeking with blood , wa- tered by the tears of affection . There will be some privation ; there will be some loss ...
... grave a degraded , defeated , emasculated people , frightened by the results of one battle , and scared by the ... graves reeking with blood , wa- tered by the tears of affection . There will be some privation ; there will be some loss ...
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... graves ? " And doubtless if he had thought of it he would have included in the list of " Federal soldiers " the gallant Baker of Oregon , whose prediction of the collapse of the rebellion he has lived to realize , and , I hope , not to ...
... graves ? " And doubtless if he had thought of it he would have included in the list of " Federal soldiers " the gallant Baker of Oregon , whose prediction of the collapse of the rebellion he has lived to realize , and , I hope , not to ...
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... graves ; Thomas H. Bayley and George C. Dromgoole , of Virginia , both since dead . There also were McKay , of North ... grave , at nearly the same time , martyrs alike to the same holy cause , in the year 1861. They were strangely alike ...
... graves ; Thomas H. Bayley and George C. Dromgoole , of Virginia , both since dead . There also were McKay , of North ... grave , at nearly the same time , martyrs alike to the same holy cause , in the year 1861. They were strangely alike ...
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... grave , after a strangely eventful and novel career . He was an artificial man - brilliant in repartee , yet subject to fits of mel- ancholy ; impetuous , yet reserved ; proud , but polite - in one word , such a contradiction as Victor ...
... grave , after a strangely eventful and novel career . He was an artificial man - brilliant in repartee , yet subject to fits of mel- ancholy ; impetuous , yet reserved ; proud , but polite - in one word , such a contradiction as Victor ...
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