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... reply . 66 Zack " Chandler of Michigan , tall , saturnine , at times grim and at times jocular , was one of the senators who attracted the attention of visitors to the Capitol ; his bold and sometimes reckless au- dacity , his perfect ...
... reply . 66 Zack " Chandler of Michigan , tall , saturnine , at times grim and at times jocular , was one of the senators who attracted the attention of visitors to the Capitol ; his bold and sometimes reckless au- dacity , his perfect ...
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... reply to questions propounded by him with almost brutal sternness , that Captain Eckert's orders required him to report to General McClellan , and not to the Secretary of War , nor even to the President . While this harsh catechism was ...
... reply to questions propounded by him with almost brutal sternness , that Captain Eckert's orders required him to report to General McClellan , and not to the Secretary of War , nor even to the President . While this harsh catechism was ...
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... reply to their appeal , before the President made up his mind , at Grant's suggestion , to go there in person . Lin- coln's arrival on the scene when the captain was " having it out " with the headstrong Secretary was in the nature of a ...
... reply to their appeal , before the President made up his mind , at Grant's suggestion , to go there in person . Lin- coln's arrival on the scene when the captain was " having it out " with the headstrong Secretary was in the nature of a ...
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... me what the President had said about him . I hesi- tated , but when he pressed for a reply , said that Lin- coln had told me that he regarded Hooker very much as a father might regard a son who was lame WASHINGTON IN LINCOLN'S TIME 59.
... me what the President had said about him . I hesi- tated , but when he pressed for a reply , said that Lin- coln had told me that he regarded Hooker very much as a father might regard a son who was lame WASHINGTON IN LINCOLN'S TIME 59.
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... reply to the same , are communicated to corps commanders , in the earnest hope that they will use their best efforts to assist the commanding general in meeting the wishes of the President . By command of Major - General Meade ...
... reply to the same , are communicated to corps commanders , in the earnest hope that they will use their best efforts to assist the commanding general in meeting the wishes of the President . By command of Major - General Meade ...
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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!