At all the watery margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea, the broad bay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow, muddy bayou, and wherever the ground was a little damp, they have been and made their tracks. Thanks to all: for the... The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine - Page 1321889Full view - About this book
| Abraham Lincoln, Paul McClelland Angle, Earl Schenck Miers - United States - 1992 - 692 pages
...forgotten. At all the watery margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea, the broad bay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow muddy...ground was a little damp, they have been, and made then- tracks. Thanks to all. For the great republic-for the principle it lives by, and keeps alive-... | |
| Robert M. Browning - History - 1993 - 478 pages
...margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea, the broad bay, and the rapid river, but . . . wherever the ground was a little damp, they have been, and made their tracks."' Nowhere else during the war was this statement more true than in the sounds, rivers, and inland waterways... | |
| David Herbert Donald - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 724 pages
...the bays, rivers, bayous, and "wherever the ground was a little damp." "Thanks to all," he cheered. "For the great republic — for the principle it lives...alive — for man's vast future, — thanks to all." Received "with the greatest enthusiasm" by the 50,000 to 75,000 cheering Unionists who attended the... | |
| Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 208 pages
...forgotten. At all the watery margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea, the broad bay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow, muddy bayou, and wherever their ground was a little damp, they have been, and made their tracks. Letter to James C. Conkling,... | |
| James M. McPherson, Patricia R. McPherson - History - 1997 - 267 pages
...forgotten. At all the watery margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea, the broad bay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow muddy...little damp, they have been, and made their tracks." 1 Uncle Sam's Web-feet were, of course, the United States Navy. From rivers that penetrated deep into... | |
| John Waugh - History - 2009 - 478 pages
...forgotten. At all the watery margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea, the broad bay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow muddy...and made their tracks. Thanks to all. For the great republic—for the principle it lives by, and keeps alive—for man's vast future—thanks to all."... | |
| David J Eicher - History - 2002 - 992 pages
...forgotten. At all the watery margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea, the broad bay, the rapid river, but also up the narrow muddy bayou,...little damp, they have been and made their tracks." The situation for the Confederates was no better at Port Hudson, which had been under siege by Maj.... | |
| William Benjamin Gould - History - 2002 - 406 pages
...declared. "At all the watery margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea, the broad bay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow, muddy...was a little damp, they have been, and made their tracks."26 When WBG joined the navy in September 1862, he was one of the earliest blacks to join in... | |
| Ethan M. Fishman - Business & Economics - 2002 - 248 pages
...the end of the letter, Lincoln affirms the Union's dedication to higher moral principles by offering thanks to all, "For the great republic — for the...lives by, and keeps alive — for man's vast future." To be sure, the principle the Union lives by is the principle of equality. Thus, preservation of the... | |
| Hans Bak - History - 2004 - 372 pages
...in battle. With Grant finally clearing the Mississippi at Vicksburg in I863, Lincoln rather thanked "all. For the great republic - for the principle it...keeps alive - for man's vast future - thanks to all." The war experience was soaked in religious sentiment. New England was fiercely abolitionist and the... | |
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