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... Sheridan's Views . Grant's Purpose Fully Developed . Sheridan at Dinwiddie Court House . The Battle of Five Forks . Warren Relieved . Relations Between Him and Grant . . 148 CHAPTER IX . APPOMATTOX Grant Orders Assault on the ...
... Sheridan's Views . Grant's Purpose Fully Developed . Sheridan at Dinwiddie Court House . The Battle of Five Forks . Warren Relieved . Relations Between Him and Grant . . 148 CHAPTER IX . APPOMATTOX Grant Orders Assault on the ...
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... Sheridan was moving for the last time up the Valley of the Shenandoah to abolish Early ; while from the South the redoubtable columns of Sherman- the men who had taken Vicksburg , who had scaled the heights of Chattanooga , and , having ...
... Sheridan was moving for the last time up the Valley of the Shenandoah to abolish Early ; while from the South the redoubtable columns of Sherman- the men who had taken Vicksburg , who had scaled the heights of Chattanooga , and , having ...
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... Sheridan had completed the work as- signed him in the Valley and joined either Sher- man or the army at Petersburg . Vol . II . , p . 424 . 1865 . But at last , satisfied with Sheridan's progress and with Sherman's condition , he ...
... Sheridan had completed the work as- signed him in the Valley and joined either Sher- man or the army at Petersburg . Vol . II . , p . 424 . 1865 . But at last , satisfied with Sheridan's progress and with Sherman's condition , he ...
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... Sheridan reached City Point on the 26th , and Sherman came up from March , 1865 . North Carolina for a brief visit the next day . He said he would be ready to move on the 10th of April , and laid before Grant a plan for a coöpera- tive ...
... Sheridan reached City Point on the 26th , and Sherman came up from March , 1865 . North Carolina for a brief visit the next day . He said he would be ready to move on the 10th of April , and laid before Grant a plan for a coöpera- tive ...
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... guns , and 1700 cavalry , though General Ord took with him only about one - half his infantry ; Sheridan's cav- alrymen , present for duty , 13,000 ; the grand total of all arms was 124,700 . Lee's infantry numbered CHAP 166 ABRAHAM ...
... guns , and 1700 cavalry , though General Ord took with him only about one - half his infantry ; Sheridan's cav- alrymen , present for duty , 13,000 ; the grand total of all arms was 124,700 . Lee's infantry numbered CHAP 166 ABRAHAM ...
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Page 145 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said : " The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 145 - South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those Divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until...
Page 144 - 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 93 - I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that "while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the Emancipation Proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the acts of Congress.
Page 144 - The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself, and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avert it.
Page 144 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes. " Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by...
Page 279 - They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
Page 279 - WHEN the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The Lord hath done great things for them. The Lord hath done great things for us ; whereof we are glad.
Page 144 - To strengthen, perpetuate and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war ; while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it.
Page 80 - ... we are in favor, furthermore, of such an amendment to the Constitution, to be made by the people in conformity with its provisions, as shall terminate and forever prohibit the existence of slavery within the limits or the jurisdiction of the United States.