 You will take with you the satisfaction that proceeds from the consciousness of duty faithfully performed, and I earnestly pray that a merciful God will extend to you His blessing and protection. With an increasing admiration of your constancy and devotion...  Southern Generals: Their Lives and Campaigns - Page 159by William Parker Snow - 1866 - 500 pagesFull view - About this book
 | David Herbert Donald, Harold Holzer - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 462 pages
...consequences of duty faithfully performed, and I earnestly pray that a merciful God will extend you his blessing and protection. With an increasing admiration...consideration of myself, I bid you an affectionate farewell, (Signed) RE LEE, General The Nation's Bereavement. Death, as the Northmen imagined him, is no dart-brandishing... | |
 | Wendy Conklin - Education - 2005 - 194 pages
...faithfulness, R3: and your loyalty R4: and l myself will remain devoted to our great country. All: and a grateful remembrance of your kind and generous consideration of myself, R5: l will always remember how kind you were to me, your leader. All: I bid you all an affectionate... | |
 | Robert Haven Schauffler - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 361 pages
...consciousness of duty faithfully performed ; and I earnestly pray that a merciful God will extend to you His blessing and protection. With an increasing admiration...your kind and generous consideration of myself, I bid an affectionate farewell. RE LEE, General, THE CONFLICT ENDED BY CHARLES DEVENS From an Address Delivered... | |
 | Heritage Auction Galleries (Dallas, Tex.) - United States - 2007 - 320 pages
...earnestly pray that a merciful God will extend to you his blessing 6- protection. With an unceasing admiration of your constancy and devotion to your...kind and generous consideration of myself, I bid you all an affectionate farewell. RE Lee, General" This very well could be Virginia Governor William 'Extra... | |
 | David J. Eicher - History - 2007 - 376 pages
...prisoner. "With an increasing admiration of your constancy and devotion to your country," he wrote to them, "and a grateful remembrance of your kind and generous...consideration of myself, I bid you an affectionate farewell." "How can I write it?" wrote North Carolina diarist Catherine Edmondston. "How find words to tell what... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - Biography - 1873 - 794 pages
...consciousness of duty faithfully performed, and I earnestly pray that a merciful God will extend you His blessing and protection. "With an increasing admiration...consideration of myself, I bid you an affectionate farewell." After this, Lee returned to his home in Richmond, where he passed a few months in retirement ; and... | |
 | James D. McCabe - Generals - 1870 - 770 pages
...earnestly pray that a merciful God will extend to you His blessing and protection. 44 With an unceasing admiration of your constancy and devotion to your...consideration of myself, I bid you an affectionate farewell. EE LEE, General" quished army, and carefully refrained from anything that might seem to insult the... | |
 | John Drinkwater - Drama (English) - 1923 - 104 pages
...earnestly pray that a merciful God will extend to you His blessing and protection. ' With an unceasing admiration of your constancy and devotion to your...kind and generous consideration of myself, I bid you all an affectionate farewell.' He stands still as he finishes, BUCHANAN goes into the tent. Daylight... | |
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