 And furthermore, as president of the Board of Supervisors, I beg you to take immediate steps to relieve me as superintendent, the moment the State determines to secede, for on no earthly account will I do any act or think any thought hostile to or in...  Men and Things I Saw in Civil War Days - Page 374by James Fowler Rusling - 1899 - 411 pagesFull view - About this book
 | David Power Conyngham - History - 1865 - 444 pages
...Supervisors, I beg you to take immediate steps to relieve me as superintendent the moment the state determines to secede ; for on no earthly account will...government of the United States. With great respect, &c., WTSHERMAN. His resignation was accepted, and he removed to St. Louis. During that season of dreadful... | |
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...Supervisors, I beg you to take immediate steps to relieve me as superintendent the moment the State determines to secede ; for on no earthly account will...defiance of the old government of the United States." Sherman now left the South, joined his family at the North, and soon offered his services at Washington... | |
 | 1891 - 774 pages
...reads that that soldier, Gen. Sherman, who wrote to his loved and respected Southern friends that " on no earthly account will I do any act or think any...defiance of the old Government of the United States," and then kept his words by loyal deeds on the field of battle, finally, at his last days, " suffered... | |
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