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, 1896 - 572 páginas |
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A. P. Hill advance Albert Sidney Johnston army artillery attack bank batteries battle Beauregard boats bridge brigade Burnside cannon Captain cavalry Centerville Chancellorsville church Colonel coloured command Confederate crossed Culp's Hill division enemy enemy's field Fifth Corps fight fire Fitz John Porter flag flank fleet force Ford Fort Pillow Fredericksburg front Gettysburg Gordonsville Grant ground gunboats guns hands headquarters hill Hooker horses Howard hundred Kentucky Lee's Longstreet looked MAJOR-GENERAL McClellan Meade Meade's miles morning moved movement negro night North o'clock officers passed Petersburg pickets plank road position Potomac President Lincoln prisoners railroad reached rear rebels regiments retreat Richmond ridge river rode Secession Second Corps sent shells Sherman shot Sickles Sixth Corps slavery slaves soldiers South steamer Stonewall Jackson stood stream Sumter thousand town turnpike Union army Virginia wagons Washington woods wounded Yankees
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Página 385 - The Almighty has his own purposes. " Woe unto the world because of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.
Página 385 - 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 385 - 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 bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with 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 385 - ... If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses 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 as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him ? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge...
Página 337 - 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 224 - Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed in living green ; So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between.
Página 429 - I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton.
Página 374 - Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.
Página 426 - Your communication demanding surrender of my command I acknowledge receipt of, and respectfully reply that we are prepared for the "needless effusion of blood" whenever it is agreeable to you.
Página 317 - Staff being engaged in a similar manner further to the rear. His face, which is always placid and cheerful, did not show signs of the slightest disappointment, care, or annoyance; and he was addressing to every soldier he met a few words of encouragement, such as, "All this will come right in the end: we'll talk it over afterwards; but, in the mean time, all good men must rally. We want all good and true men just now,