Life and Services of Gen. John A. Logan: As Soldier and StatesmanBelford, Clarke, 1887 - 580 pages |
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... Campaign - Logan leads the advance - Is made Major - Gen- eral - At Memphis - Assigned to com- mand of Third Division , Seventeenth Corps - Stirring address to his fellow- soldiers PAGE 26 28 From Memphis to Lake Providence- Canalling ...
... Campaign - Logan leads the advance - Is made Major - Gen- eral - At Memphis - Assigned to com- mand of Third Division , Seventeenth Corps - Stirring address to his fellow- soldiers PAGE 26 28 From Memphis to Lake Providence- Canalling ...
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... campaign of the Carolinas - Its rela- tive importance greater than " the march to the sea " - " -The part Logan's corps contributed to it Terrible sufferings and difficulties of the march - Advancing and fighting with water up to the ...
... campaign of the Carolinas - Its rela- tive importance greater than " the march to the sea " - " -The part Logan's corps contributed to it Terrible sufferings and difficulties of the march - Advancing and fighting with water up to the ...
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... campaign of 1865 - Logan's campaign services - Appointed minister to Mexico , but declines He declines appointment as minister to Japan - Nominated to Congress from the State at Large - His extraordinary canvass of Illinois in 1866 ...
... campaign of 1865 - Logan's campaign services - Appointed minister to Mexico , but declines He declines appointment as minister to Japan - Nominated to Congress from the State at Large - His extraordinary canvass of Illinois in 1866 ...
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... campaign in Iowa - Ovation after ovation along the whole line from Wat- erloo to Burlington - Logan excels in a new rôle ..... His speech in 1879 , on the reciprocal duties of the citizen to the Government and the Government to the ...
... campaign in Iowa - Ovation after ovation along the whole line from Wat- erloo to Burlington - Logan excels in a new rôle ..... His speech in 1879 , on the reciprocal duties of the citizen to the Government and the Government to the ...
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... campaign labors - Re- sult of the election - How Logan bore it . 361 PAGE Logan's memorably gallant fight for the Illinois senatorship - Hopeless odds against him - He wins his third senato- rial term - His address to the Legisla- ture ...
... campaign labors - Re- sult of the election - How Logan bore it . 361 PAGE Logan's memorably gallant fight for the Illinois senatorship - Hopeless odds against him - He wins his third senato- rial term - His address to the Legisla- ture ...
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Page 474 - Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose. I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my book-learned skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt and all I saw...
Page 474 - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs - and God has given my share I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose.
Page 420 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Page 574 - The graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments and studied contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country hang on the decision of the hour.
Page 350 - We therefore demand that the imposition of duties on foreign imports shall be made, not for revenue only, but that, in raising the requisite revenues for the Government, such duties shall be so levied as to afford security to our diversified industries and protection to the rights and wages of the laborer, to the end that active and intelligent labor, as well as capital, may have its just reward and the laboring man his full share in the national prosperity.
Page 384 - Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap; let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers...
Page 124 - If other eyes grow dull and other hands slack, and other hearts cold in the solemn trust, ours shall keep it well as long as the light and warmth of life remain to us.
Page 300 - on the earth there is nothing great but man, and in man, there is nothing great but mind...
Page 395 - Yours of this date, proposing armistice and appointment of Commissioners to settle terms of capitulation, is just received. No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
Page 142 - South, disperse the carpet-bag State Governments, allow the white people to re-organize their own governments, and elect Senators and Representatives, The House of Representatives will contain a majority of Democrats from the North, and they will admit the Representatives elected by the white people of the South, and with the co-operation of the President, it will not be difficult to compel the Senate to submit once more to the obligations of the Constitution.