 MR. PRESIDENT: I accept the commission, with gratitude for the high honor conferred. With the aid of the noble armies that have fought on so many fields for our common country, it will be my earnest endeavor not to disappoint your expectations. I feel...  The Tanner-boy and how He Became Lieutenant-general - Page 260by Charles Wheeler Denison - 1864 - 308 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Jesse Ames Spencer - United States - 1866 - 620 pages
...accept the commission with gratitude for the high honor conferred. With the aid of the noble armies that have fought on so many fields for our common country,...disappoint your expectations. I feel the full weight of the responsibilities now devolving upon me ; and I know that if they are met, it will be due to those armies,... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 598 pages
...the commission, with gratitude for llic high honor conferred. With the nid of the noble armies that have fought on so many fields for our common country,...will be my earnest endeavor not to disappoint your expectation. I feel the full weight of the responsibilities now devolving upon me and I know that if... | |
 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 842 pages
...accept the commission with gratitude for the high honor conferred. With the aid of the noble armies that have fought on so many fields for our common country,...disappoint your expectations. I feel the full weight of the responsibilities now devolving on me, and I know that if they are met, it will be due to those armies,... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...the high honor conferred. "With the aid of the noble armies that have fought on so many battle-fields 864 responsibilities now devolving on me; and I know that, if they are properly met, it will be duo to... | |
 | Frank Moore - United States - 1865 - 830 pages
...this commission with gratitude for the high honor conferred. With the aid of the noble arniie-; that have fought on so many fields for our common country,...disappoint your expectations. I feel the full weight of the responsibilities now devolving on me, and I know th:.t if they are met, it will be due to those armies,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1865 - 866 pages
...this commission with gratitude for the high honor conferred. With the aid of the noble armies that have fought on so many fields for our common country,...disappoint your expectations. I feel the full weight of the responsibilities now devolving on me, and I know that if they are met, it will be due to those armies,... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 864 pages
...this commission, with gratitude for the high honor conferred. With the aid of the noble armies that have fought on so many fields for our common country,...disappoint your expectations. I feel the full weight of the responsibilities now devolving on me, and I know that if they are met, it will be due to those armies... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - United States - 1865 - 872 pages
...the commission with gratitude for the high honor conferred. "With the aid of the noble armies that have fought on so many fields for our common country,...disappoint your expectations. I feel the full weight of the responsibilities now devolving on me, and I know that if they are met, it will be due to those armies,... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 840 pages
...commission, with gratitude for the high honor conferred. With the aid of the noble armies that hare fought on so many fields for our common country, it...disappoint your expectations. I feel the full weight of the responsibilities now devolving on mo, and I know that if they are met, it will be due to those armies... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 848 pages
...commission, with gratitnde for the high honor conferred. With the aid of the nohle armies that have fonght on so many fields for our common country, it will...disappoint your expectations. I feel the full weight of the responsibilities now devolving on me, and I know that if they are met, it will be due to those armies... | |
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