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... passed their ordinances of secession , assumed to be independent , seized the forts , arsenals , and navy yards of the United States within their limits , and prepared for war . One after another , in dozens at last , the Southern ...
... passed their ordinances of secession , assumed to be independent , seized the forts , arsenals , and navy yards of the United States within their limits , and prepared for war . One after another , in dozens at last , the Southern ...
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... passed through the concentric fire of two formidable forts - in spite of obstructions and incendiary rafts , had partially silenced the land batteries , and had destroyed thirteen of the enemy's gunboats and rams , and driven the four ...
... passed through the concentric fire of two formidable forts - in spite of obstructions and incendiary rafts , had partially silenced the land batteries , and had destroyed thirteen of the enemy's gunboats and rams , and driven the four ...
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... passed the fort , which was about ten minutes before eight o'clock , the ram Tennessee dashed out at this ship , as had been expected , and in anticipa- tion of which I had ordered the monitors on our starboard side . I took no further ...
... passed the fort , which was about ten minutes before eight o'clock , the ram Tennessee dashed out at this ship , as had been expected , and in anticipa- tion of which I had ordered the monitors on our starboard side . I took no further ...
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... passed hundreds of such sleepers . A dry spot is a good mattress , the flap of a blanket quite a downy pillow . You would wonder , I think , to see a whole army corps , as I have , without a shred of a tent to bless themselves with ...
... passed hundreds of such sleepers . A dry spot is a good mattress , the flap of a blanket quite a downy pillow . You would wonder , I think , to see a whole army corps , as I have , without a shred of a tent to bless themselves with ...
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... passed Fort Monroe and entered the James , convoyed by the fleet , under command of Rear - Admiral Lee . In the afternoon of the 5th , the expedition reached a landing at the junction of the James and Appomat- tox Rivers , a mile or two ...
... passed Fort Monroe and entered the James , convoyed by the fleet , under command of Rear - Admiral Lee . In the afternoon of the 5th , the expedition reached a landing at the junction of the James and Appomat- tox Rivers , a mile or two ...
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Page 315 - How sleep the brave who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung ; By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there ! ODE TO MERCY.
Page 573 - The arms, artillery, and public property to be parked and stacked, and turned over to the officers appointed by me to receive them. This will not embrace the sidearms of the officers, nor their private horses or baggage.
Page 515 - And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel, And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress
Page 323 - Though there were many giants of old in physic and philosophy, yet I say with Didacus Stella, a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself; I may likely add, alter, and see farther than my predecessors.
Page 244 - THERE is a tear for all that die, A mourner o'er the humblest grave ; But nations swell the funeral cry, And Triumph weeps above the brave. For them is Sorrow's purest sigh O'er Ocean's heaving bosom sent : In vain their bones unburied lie, All earth becomes their monument ! A tomb is theirs on every page, An epitaph on every tongue : The present hours, the future age, For them bewail, to them belong. For them the voice...
Page 123 - Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth.
Page 230 - We close our view of Bonaparte's character, by saying, that his original propensities, released from restraint, and pampered by indulgence, to a degree seldom allowed to mortals, grew up into a spirit of despotism as stern and absolute as ever usurped the human heart. The love of power and supremacy absorbed, consumed him. No other passion, no domestic attachment, no private friendship, no love of pleasure, no relish for letters or the arts, no human sympathy, no human weakness, divided his mind...
Page 321 - GENTLEMEN: — I have your letter of the llth, in the nature of a petition to revoke my orders removing all the inhabitants from Atlanta. I have read it carefully, and give...
Page 375 - You might as well appeal against the thunder-storm as against these terrible hardships of war. They are inevitable, and the only way the people of Atlanta can hope once more to live in peace and quiet at home, is to stop the war, which can only be done by admitting that it began in error and is perpetuated in pride.
Page 320 - Talk thus to the marines, but not to me, who have seen these things, and who will this day make as much sacrifice for the peace and honor of the South as the best-born Southerner among you!