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... night the air was troubled by the clatter of gallop- ing squads of cavalry ; and the clank of sabers , and the measured beat of marching infantry , were ever present to the ear . The city was under military gov- ernment , and the ...
... night the air was troubled by the clatter of gallop- ing squads of cavalry ; and the clank of sabers , and the measured beat of marching infantry , were ever present to the ear . The city was under military gov- ernment , and the ...
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... night and day , and the continual passage of heavily loaded quartermas- ters ' trains , artillery , and vehicles of kinds before unknown in Washington , churned the unpaved streets into muddy thoroughfares in winter , or cut them deep ...
... night and day , and the continual passage of heavily loaded quartermas- ters ' trains , artillery , and vehicles of kinds before unknown in Washington , churned the unpaved streets into muddy thoroughfares in winter , or cut them deep ...
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... night . He had noticed that these lights invariably made their appearance about the same time ( at midnight ) , and he was confident that the person displaying them was carrying on a con- traband correspondence with the rebels by means ...
... night . He had noticed that these lights invariably made their appearance about the same time ( at midnight ) , and he was confident that the person displaying them was carrying on a con- traband correspondence with the rebels by means ...
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... night for the purpose of taking their record , and that the supposed signal - light in the Smithsonian tower was the lantern carried to the observatory at midnight by the attendant who made those obser- vations . Somewhat crestfallen ...
... night for the purpose of taking their record , and that the supposed signal - light in the Smithsonian tower was the lantern carried to the observatory at midnight by the attendant who made those obser- vations . Somewhat crestfallen ...
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... night on board the steamer anchored in the Potomac . In the course of conversation that even- ing , the President was communicative and in a con- fidential mood , and discussed the military situation with much freedom . Speaking of ...
... night on board the steamer anchored in the Potomac . In the course of conversation that even- ing , the President was communicative and in a con- fidential mood , and discussed the military situation with much freedom . Speaking of ...
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Page 279 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate.
Page 223 - None shall be weary nor stumble among them ; None shall slumber nor sleep; Neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, Nor the latchet of their shoes be broken : Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, Their horses...
Page 63 - The signs look better. The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea. Thanks to the great Northwest for it. Nor yet wholly to them. Three hundred miles up they met New England, Empire, Keystone, and Jersey, hewing their way right and left. The sunny South, too, in more colors than one, also lent a hand.
Page 114 - Must I shoot a simpleminded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert?
Page 182 - States, or other peaceable means, to the end that, at the earliest practicable moment, peace may be restored on the basis of the Federal union of the States.
Page 221 - Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came.
Page 235 - We meet this evening not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart. The evacuation of Petersburg and Richmond, and the surrender of the principal insurgent army, give hope of a righteous and speedy peace, whose joyous expression cannot be restrained.
Page 222 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphans, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and a lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
Page 179 - This morning, as for some days past, it seems exceedingly probable that this Administration will not be re-elected. Then it will be my duty to so cooperate with the President-elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration ; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he cannot possibly save it afterwards.
Page 58 - Department, and was to the effect that the army had been withdrawn from the south side of the Rappahannock, and was then "safely encamped" in its former position. The appearance of the President, as I read aloud these fateful words, was piteous. Never, as long as I knew him, did he seem to be so broken, so dispirited. and so ghostlike. Clasping his hands behind his back, he walked up and down the room, saying, "My God! my God! What will the country say!