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The fame and glory of all the officers belonging to this Army , who have fallen
either on the field of battle , or in their line of duty , shall be a sacred trust to this
Society , which shall cause proper memorials of their services to be collected and
...
The fame and glory of all the officers belonging to this Army , who have fallen
either on the field of battle , or in their line of duty , shall be a sacred trust to this
Society , which shall cause proper memorials of their services to be collected and
...
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The government has reaped from it a thousand - fold for every dollar it has
expended ; and the Pacific roads have been the one great cause that made this
state of affairs possible . The census of 1890 will place , in this territory , fifteen
millions ...
The government has reaped from it a thousand - fold for every dollar it has
expended ; and the Pacific roads have been the one great cause that made this
state of affairs possible . The census of 1890 will place , in this territory , fifteen
millions ...
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The women of this section , day and night , in season and out of season , showed
their devotion to the cause . With them , while love was a great passion , duty and
loyalty to their country were greater . They were willing their loved ones should ...
The women of this section , day and night , in season and out of season , showed
their devotion to the cause . With them , while love was a great passion , duty and
loyalty to their country were greater . They were willing their loved ones should ...
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... built there , dedicated to the cause of human liberty , right , and all that is just ,
other great and grand states . In boyhood days , many of us who are growing
grey with years , I remember looking on the map of our country , and seeing half
way ...
... built there , dedicated to the cause of human liberty , right , and all that is just ,
other great and grand states . In boyhood days , many of us who are growing
grey with years , I remember looking on the map of our country , and seeing half
way ...
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We recollect that our state gave to the service during those years , to the cause of
human liberty her Grant , Sherman , Sheri . dan , Steedman , Hayes , and the
lamented Garfield , with 300 , 000 more of her bravest sons . It seems to me , my ...
We recollect that our state gave to the service during those years , to the cause of
human liberty her Grant , Sherman , Sheri . dan , Steedman , Hayes , and the
lamented Garfield , with 300 , 000 more of her bravest sons . It seems to me , my ...
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Page 88 - 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 up 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.
Page 85 - Can it be an occasion for either surprise or complaint that if this condition of things is to remain and receive the deliberate sanction of the British government, the navy of the United States...
Page 525 - Glory of Virtue, to fight, to struggle, to right the wrong — Nay, but" she aim'd not at glory, no lover of glory she : Give her the glory of going on, and still to be. The wages of sin is death : if the wages of Virtue be dust, Would she have heart to endure for the life of the worm and the fly? She desires no isles of the blest, no quiet seats of the just, To rest in...
Page 517 - Gentlemen; soldiers; comrades ; the silken folds that twine about us here, for all their soft and careless grace, are yet as strong as hooks of steel ! They hold together a united people and a great nation; for, realizing the truth at last — with no wounds to be healed and no stings of defeat to remember — the South says to the North, as simply and as truly as was said three thousand years ago in the far-away meadow upon the shores of the mystic sea: "Whither thou goest, I will go; and where...
Page 437 - ... cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner...
Page 146 - Till the war drum throbs no longer and the battle flags are furled In the Parliament of man, the federation of the world.
Page 461 - 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.
Page 512 - It was on Decoration Day in the City of New York, the last one he ever saw on earth. That morning the members of the Grand Army of the Republic, the veterans in that vicinity, arose earlier than was their wont. They seemed to spend more time that morning in unfurling the old battle flags, in burnishing the medals of honor which decorated their breasts, for on that day they had determined to march by the house of their dying commander to give him a last marching salute. In the streets the columns...
Page 80 - Grant: Understanding that your lodgment at Chattanooga and Knoxville is now secure, I wish to tender you, and all under your command, my more than thanks, my profoundest gratitude, for the skill, courage, and perseverance with which you and they, over so great difficulties, have effected that important object. God bless you all!
Page 538 - The word of the Lord by night To the watching Pilgrims came, As they sat by the seaside, And filled their hearts with flame. God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor.
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| Title | Report of the Proceedings of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee at the ... Meeting[s] ..., 21–23. köide |
| Author | Society of the Army of the Tennessee |
| Publisher | The Society., 1893 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 20 veeb. 2008 |
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