Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C., Volume 27The Society, 1925 - Washington (D.C.) |
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... army , for anything stolen . It came into use soon after General Blenker's division passed down the Shenandoah Valley . ' Appeared in the National Republican , Jan. 24 , 1864 , subscribed " John Hay , Executive Mansion , Washington ...
... army , for anything stolen . It came into use soon after General Blenker's division passed down the Shenandoah Valley . ' Appeared in the National Republican , Jan. 24 , 1864 , subscribed " John Hay , Executive Mansion , Washington ...
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... army , I cannot make particular responses to them at this time . To prevent intemperance in the army is even a part of the Articles of War . It is a part of the law of the land - and was so , I presume long ago - to dismiss officers for ...
... army , I cannot make particular responses to them at this time . To prevent intemperance in the army is even a part of the Articles of War . It is a part of the law of the land - and was so , I presume long ago - to dismiss officers for ...
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... army - our army - drunkenness is a great evil , and one which , while it exists to a very great extent , we cannot expect to overcome so entirely as to leave such successes in our aims as we might have without it . This , undoubt- edly ...
... army - our army - drunkenness is a great evil , and one which , while it exists to a very great extent , we cannot expect to overcome so entirely as to leave such successes in our aims as we might have without it . This , undoubt- edly ...
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... army and you see no timidity there . The sight of ten thousand banners causes no alarm but rather excites courage . But go back into the interior , and you see men who are guarding their prop- erty and their gold , and there you find ...
... army and you see no timidity there . The sight of ten thousand banners causes no alarm but rather excites courage . But go back into the interior , and you see men who are guarding their prop- erty and their gold , and there you find ...
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... army , and the cause he serves , from destruction . Scott slept upon his post almost in view of the enemy , but as they happened to be unconscious of his want of fidelity , no disaster followed except to him- self . This is the first ...
... army , and the cause he serves , from destruction . Scott slept upon his post almost in view of the enemy , but as they happened to be unconscious of his want of fidelity , no disaster followed except to him- self . This is the first ...
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Page 11 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 27 - All quiet along the Potomac," they say, "Except now and then a stray picket Is shot as he walks on his beat, to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket.
Page 11 - I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 251 - So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Page 50 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.
Page 74 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
Page 79 - Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us, therefore, study the incidents of this, as philosophy to learn wisdom from, and none of them as wrongs to be revenged.
Page 73 - I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save.
Page 251 - And, doubtless, unto thee is given A life that bears immortal fruit In such great offices as suit The full-grown energies of heaven.