Life and Military Career of Major-General William Tecumseh Sherman |
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... , till many an American soldier found a grave in the gloomy everglade and dark river channel . At length there was a pause in the terrible border war- fare . Outrages by the white people continued , " LIFE OF GENERAL SHERMAN . 31.
... , till many an American soldier found a grave in the gloomy everglade and dark river channel . At length there was a pause in the terrible border war- fare . Outrages by the white people continued , " LIFE OF GENERAL SHERMAN . 31.
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... but the red man's heart will be free . I have come to you in peace , and have taken you all by he hand . I will sleep in your camp , though your soldiers stand around me thick as pine trees . I am LIFE OF GENERAL SHERMAN . 37.
... but the red man's heart will be free . I have come to you in peace , and have taken you all by he hand . I will sleep in your camp , though your soldiers stand around me thick as pine trees . I am LIFE OF GENERAL SHERMAN . 37.
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... soldier . The first is , the real beginning of the great rebellion , in the unjust and oppressive claims of the Southern States upon other races , and upon our national legislation . The other curious fact is the awful desola- tion of ...
... soldier . The first is , the real beginning of the great rebellion , in the unjust and oppressive claims of the Southern States upon other races , and upon our national legislation . The other curious fact is the awful desola- tion of ...
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... soldier's steps from the round of martial duty . In the spring of 1850 he led her to the altar of marriage , in Washington , D. C. , where the bride's father , the Hon . Thomas Ewing , has spent much of his long life in Congress , and ...
... soldier's steps from the round of martial duty . In the spring of 1850 he led her to the altar of marriage , in Washington , D. C. , where the bride's father , the Hon . Thomas Ewing , has spent much of his long life in Congress , and ...
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... the times . The faithful boy at errands , is the trusty soldier and banker also . No stain rests on the record of his success in life . CHAPTER V. Takes charge of a Military Academy in Alexandria 44 LIFE OF GENERAL SHERMAN .
... the times . The faithful boy at errands , is the trusty soldier and banker also . No stain rests on the record of his success in life . CHAPTER V. Takes charge of a Military Academy in Alexandria 44 LIFE OF GENERAL SHERMAN .
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Page 33 - Recent events foreshadow a great change, and it becomes all men to choose. If Louisiana withdraw from the Federal Union, I prefer to maintain my allegiance to the constitution as long as a fragment of it survives and my longer stay here would be wrong in every sense of the word. In that event, I...
Page 295 - I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton.
Page 133 - Column after column of the enemy was streaming toward me; gun after gun poured its concentric shot on us, from every hill and spur that gave a view of any part of the ground held by us.
Page 245 - To army corps commanders is intrusted the power to destroy mills, houses, cotton-gins, etc., and for them this general principle is laid down : In districts and neighborhoods where the army is unmolested, no destruction of such property should be permitted ; but should...
Page 223 - Atlanta for warlike purposes is inconsistent with its character as a home for families. There will be no manufactures, commerce, or agriculture here for the maintenance of families and Sooner or later want will compel the Inhabitants to go.
Page 224 - War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it: and those who brought war into our Country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to Secure Peace. But you cannot have Peace and a Division of our Country.
Page 246 - In all foraging, of whatever kind, the parties engaged will refrain from abusive or threatening language, and may, when the officer in command thinks proper, give written certificates of the facts, but no receipts ; and they will endeavor to leave with each family a reasonable portion for their maintenance.
Page 225 - I myself have seen, in Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi, hundreds and thousands of women and children fleeing from your armies and desperadoes, hungry, and with bleeding feet. In Memphis, Vicksburg, and Mississippi, we fed thousands upon thousands of the families of rebel soldiers left on our hands, and whom we could not see starve.
Page 141 - wLich form a part of their nature, and which they cannot throw off without an effort of reason or the slower process of natural change. Now, the question arises, should we treat as absolute enemies all in. the South who differ from us in opinion or...
Page 245 - As for horses, mules, wagons, etc., belonging to the inhabitants, the cavalry and artillery may appropriate freely and without limit ; discriminating, however, between the rich who are usually hostile, and the poor and industrious, usually neutral or friendly.