The Boys of '61: Or, Four Years of Fighting. Personal Observation with the Army and Navy, from the First Battle of Bull Run to the Fall of RichmondEstes and Lauriat, 1881 - 558 páginas Coffin writes his personal observations while with the United States Army and Navy during the Civil War. From the first battle of Bull Run to the fall of Richmond and the surrender of Lee, he experienced the war at close quarters and takes us through the intimacy of the march and the camp, among ordinary men and officers, as momentous events unfolded and important decisions were made. |
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Página 361 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of these offences, which in the providence of God must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that he gives to both North and South this terrible war...
Página 361 - My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it.
Página 420 - FROM Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand; Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain.
Página 313 - From all that dwell below the skies, Let the Creator's praise arise ; Let the Redeemer's name be sung, Through every land, by every tongue. 2. Eternal are thy mercies, Lord ; Eternal truth attends thy word : Thy praise shall sound from shore to shore, Till suns shall rise and set no more.
Página 298 - ... the state of his brigade. General Lee immediately shook hands with him and said cheerfully, 'Never mind, general; all this has been my fault; it is / that have lost this fight, and you must help me out of it in the best way you can.
Página 361 - ... the lash shall be paid by another drawn by the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Página 397 - If we must be enemies, let us be men, and fight it out as we propose to do, and not deal in such hypocritical appeals to God and humanity. God will judge us in due time, and he will pronounce whether it be more humane to fight with a town full of women and the families of a brave people at our back, or to remove them in time to places of safety among their own friends and people.
Página 472 - And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived. And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.
Página 309 - I therefore determined, first, to use the greatest number of troops practicable against the armed force of the enemy ; preventing him from using the same force at different seasons against first one and then another of our armies, and the possibility of repose for refitting and producing necessary supplies for carrying on resistance.
Página 361 - Fondly do we hope— fervently do we pray— that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man's two hundred and fifty years...
Referencias a este libro
The American Civil War: A Handbook of Literature and Research Steven E. Woodworth Vista de fragmentos - 1996 |