Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 31Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells Harper's Magazine Company, 1865 Important American periodical dating back to 1850. |
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... miles ; and that the average of mechanical labor , living , and other expenses is correspondingly higher than in Cal- ifornia , it is really wonderful how much has been done in so short a space of time . Yet , allowing all this , what ...
... miles ; and that the average of mechanical labor , living , and other expenses is correspondingly higher than in Cal- ifornia , it is really wonderful how much has been done in so short a space of time . Yet , allowing all this , what ...
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... miles deeper in the desert , we should all have perished . I had not time to make observations upon the disposition to fever and vomiting caused by the wind itself , but the air became heavier and more oppressive than before . " The ...
... miles deeper in the desert , we should all have perished . I had not time to make observations upon the disposition to fever and vomiting caused by the wind itself , but the air became heavier and more oppressive than before . " The ...
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... miles long , taking advantage of the cleared farm lands to the right and left of the road . They placed , wherever it was possible , an open field in their front across which the en- emy must advance to attack them . With the first ...
... miles long , taking advantage of the cleared farm lands to the right and left of the road . They placed , wherever it was possible , an open field in their front across which the en- emy must advance to attack them . With the first ...
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... miles in length ; and no road by and rifling the bodies of ours . Our retreat was which the rebels could advance was left un- so hurried that the wounded were left behind , guarded . to meet a fate worse than death under any form ...
... miles in length ; and no road by and rifling the bodies of ours . Our retreat was which the rebels could advance was left un- so hurried that the wounded were left behind , guarded . to meet a fate worse than death under any form ...
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... miles . So many the less to feed ! But " the tender mercies of " these " wicked , " which " were cruel " and speedy death , are less harrowing to the soul than the conduct of those Confederate officers who had charge of the supplies ...
... miles . So many the less to feed ! But " the tender mercies of " these " wicked , " which " were cruel " and speedy death , are less harrowing to the soul than the conduct of those Confederate officers who had charge of the supplies ...
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Page 192 - GOD Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross...
Page 399 - I am a Jew. Hath not a, Jew eyes ? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions ? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?
Page 193 - And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.
Page 122 - HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA, April 9, 1865. "GENERAL: — I have received your letter of this date containing the terms of surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia as proposed by you. As they are substantially the same as those expressed in your letter of the 8th instant, they are accepted. I will proceed to designate the proper officers to carry the stipulations into effect. "RE LEE, General. "LIEUTENANT-GENERAL US GRANT.
Page 122 - The terms upon which peace can be had are well understood. By the South laying down their arms, they will hasten that most desirable event, save thousands of human lives and hundreds of millions of property not yet destroyed.
Page 122 - ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA, April 9, 1865. " GENERAL : I have received your letter of this date containing the terms of the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia as proposed by you. As they are substantially the same as those expressed in your letter of the 8th instant, they are accepted. I will proceed to designate the proper officers to carry the stipulations into effect. RE LEE, General. "Lieutenant-General US GRANT.
Page 202 - OH ! weep for the hour, When to Eveleen's bower The Lord of the Valley with false vows came ; The moon hid her light From the heavens that night, And wept behind her clouds o'er the maiden's shame. The clouds...
Page 225 - ... vanished. On lying down again, I saw it a second time, plainer, if possible, than before; and then I noticed that one of the faces was a little paler, say five shades, than the other. I got up and the thing melted away and I went off, and in the excitement of the hour forgot all about it — nearly, but not quite, for the thing would once in a while come up, and give me a little pang, as though something uncomfortable had happened.
Page 60 - ... ecclesiastic; the churches and monasteries, with the monuments which are therein extant; the walls and fortifications of cities and towns; and so the havens and harbours, antiquities and ruins, libraries, colleges, disputations, and lectures, where any are ; shipping and navies ; houses and gardens of state and pleasure, near great cities; armories, arsenals, magazines...
Page 124 - The Confederate armies now in existence to be disbanded and conducted to their several State capitals, there to deposit their arms and public property in the State arsenal; and each officer and man to execute and file an agreement to cease from acts of war, and to abide the action of the State and Federal authority.