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... dying from the pistol - shot of Booth . [ March 5 , 1871. ] IX . CIRCUMSTANCE often controls men as inexorably as con- science . Many a Confederate would have been a Radical if he had lived in the North , just as many a Radical would ...
... dying from the pistol - shot of Booth . [ March 5 , 1871. ] IX . CIRCUMSTANCE often controls men as inexorably as con- science . Many a Confederate would have been a Radical if he had lived in the North , just as many a Radical would ...
Page 41
... died in New York in 1869 , in his 54th year , greatly mourned in Georgia , where he leaves large family connections . Before we revive the censure of his conduct as James Buchanan's Secretary of the Treasury , and as one of the members ...
... died in New York in 1869 , in his 54th year , greatly mourned in Georgia , where he leaves large family connections . Before we revive the censure of his conduct as James Buchanan's Secretary of the Treasury , and as one of the members ...
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... died in battle at Ball's Bluff , Va . , on the 21st of October , 1861 - less than three months after : " I tell the Senator that his predictions - sometimes for the South , sometimes for the Middle States , sometimes for the Northeast ...
... died in battle at Ball's Bluff , Va . , on the 21st of October , 1861 - less than three months after : " I tell the Senator that his predictions - sometimes for the South , sometimes for the Middle States , sometimes for the Northeast ...
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... died , may be mentioned Thomas and McPherson . What Con- federate would refuse to raise his cap as their funeral train passed by , or grudge to drop a flower upon their soldier - graves ? " And doubtless if he had thought of it he would ...
... died , may be mentioned Thomas and McPherson . What Con- federate would refuse to raise his cap as their funeral train passed by , or grudge to drop a flower upon their soldier - graves ? " And doubtless if he had thought of it he would ...
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... died literally in harness . The lives of the Adamses have been unusually busy and brilliant . John , the second President , was a patriot of the impulsive school , honest and self - willed . John Quincy , his son , was in some respects ...
... died literally in harness . The lives of the Adamses have been unusually busy and brilliant . John , the second President , was a patriot of the impulsive school , honest and self - willed . John Quincy , his son , was in some respects ...
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