Life and Reminiscences of General Wm. T. ShermanR. H. Woodward Company, 1891 - 479 páginas This is a collection of thoughts and reminiscences on General Sherman from the most important and influential men of the day. Published the year of his death, it includes tributes from President Hayes, senators, high-profile priests and judges. |
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Términos y frases comunes
Academy admiration American Artillery Atlanta Avenue battle Blaine cadets caisson California camp-fire campaign Capt Captain carriage casket cavalry Charles Ewing Chattanooga Childs civil Colonel column command comrades Confederate corps crowd dead death duty enemy eral Ewing father feeling fight flag followed friends front funeral General's George W Grand Army Grant guns heart hero honor horses Howard Hoyt Sherman hundred Infantry Johnston letter Lieut Lieutenant lived Lord Wolseley Louis Major-General marching through Georgia McPherson ment miles military Monterey never O. O. Howard o'clock officer Ohio passed patriotic peace portrait Post Potomac President rear regiment Richmond River Schofield Secretary Senator Sher Sheridan side soldier South stood story Taylor Tennessee River Thomas thought thousand tion train troops Union United veterans Vicksburg W. T. SHERMAN Washington West Point WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN Wolseley York Zachary Taylor
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Página 437 - Of guns, and drums, and wounds, (God save the mark !) And telling me, the sovereign'st thing on earth Was parmaceti for an inward bruise ; And that it was great pity, so it was, That villanous saltpetre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly ; and, but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier.
Página 407 - Constitution of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America, ordained and established at Montgomery, Alabama, on the...
Página 343 - SOLDIER'S DREAM. Our bugles sang truce — for the night-cloud had lowered, And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky ; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered, The weary to sleep and the wounded to die.
Página 419 - first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.
Página 17 - 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 defiance of the old Government of the United States.
Página 41 - Here lies the seat of the coming empire; and from the West, when our task is done, we will make short work of Charleston and Richmond, and the impoverished coast of the Atlantic.
Página 36 - I repeat, you do General McPherson and myself too much honor. At Belmont you manifested your traits, neither of us being near. At Donelson, also, you illustrated your whole character. I was not near, and General McPherson in too subordinate a capacity to influence you.
Página 54 - You will be invited to seek new adventures abroad; do not yield to the temptation, for it will lead only to death and disappointment. Your general now bids you farewell, with the full belief that, as in war you have been good soldiers, so in peace you will make good citizens; and if, unfortunately, new war should arise in our country, "Sherman's army...
Página 369 - You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it ; and those who brought war on our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out.
Página 36 - McPherson, as the men to whom, above all others, I feel indebted for whatever I have had of success. How far your advice and suggestions have been of assistance, you know. How far your execution of whatever has been given you to do entitles you to the reward I am receiving, you cannot know as well as I do. I feel all the gratitude this letter would express, giving it the most flattering construction.