AutobiographyGeorge Iles Doubleday Page & Company for the Review of Reviews Company, 1909 - 178 Seiten |
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April arms battle Batwa began bush camp Cañon Captain Charles Scribner's Sons Clarence King clear climb Colonel Colonel Sherman column command Confederate Cotter courage crack danger Darkest Africa edge enemy Eskimos explorer eyes feeling feet felt fight fire floe followed forage forest friends gathered gray dog head heard height hill honour horses hundred ice-foot Ituri River lake land lead Lee's Lieutenant-General look Manyuema ment miles military morning Mount Brewer Mount Tyndall musk-oxen Nares Land never night officers once phrynia pigmies pine bush plantains precipice R. E. LEE reached rear regiment ridge River road ROBERT EDWIN PEARY rocks Roosevelt round rush Senator sent ship side slope snow snowshoes soldiers soon Spaniards surrender thought told trees troops U. S. GRANT Virginia W. T. SHERMAN Washington Wood
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Seite 73 - You will take with you the satisfaction that proceeds from the consciousness of duty faithfully performed, and I earnestly pray that a merciful God will extend to you His blessing and protection. With an increasing admiration of your constancy and devotion to your country, and a grateful remembrance of your kind and generous consideration of myself, I bid you an affectionate farewell. RE LEE, General.
Seite 73 - By the terms of the agreement, officers and men can return to their homes, and remain there until exchanged. "You will take with you the satisfaction that proceeds from the consciousness of duty faithfully performed ; and I earnestly pray that a merciful God will extend to you his blessing and protection.
Seite 47 - You are now Washington's legitimate successor, and occupy a position of almost dangerous elevation; but if you can continue, as heretofore, to be yourself, simple, honest, and unpretending, you will enjoy through life the respect and love of friends, and the homage of millions of human beings...
Seite 27 - I propose to receive the surrender of the army of Northern Virginia on the following terms, to wit : Rolls of all the officers and men to be made in duplicate, one copy to be given to an officer to be designated by me, the other to be retained by such officer or officers as you may designate. The officers to give their individual paroles not to take up arms against the government of the United States until properly...
Seite 29 - Head-Quarters, Army of Northern Virginia, April 9, 1865. " GENERAL : I received your letter of this date containing the terms of the surrender of the army of Northern Virginia, as proposed by you. As they are substantially the same as those expressed in your letter of the 8th instant, they are accepted. I will proceed to designate the proper officers to carry the stipulations into effect. " RE LEE, General.
Seite 18 - Mr. President, I accept the commission, with gratitude for the high honor conferred. With the aid of the noble armies that have fought in so many fields for our common country, it will be my earnest endeavor not to disappoint your expectations. I feel the full weight of the responsibilities now devolving on me; and I know that if they are met, it will be due to those armies, and above all, to the favor of that Providence which leads both nations and men.
Seite 48 - ... believe you are as brave, patriotic, and just as the great prototype Washington; as unselfish, kind-hearted, and honest as a man should be; but the chief characteristic is the simple faith in success you have always manifested, which I can liken to nothing else than the faith a Christian has in the Saviour.
Seite 40 - Recent events foreshadow a great change, and it becomes all men to choose. If Louisiana withdraws from the Federal Union, I prefer to maintain my allegiance to the old constitution as long as a fragment of it survives, and my longer stay here would be wrong in every sense of the word.
Seite 20 - Your note of yesterday is received. As I have no authority to treat on the subject of peace, the meeting proposed for ten AM to-day could lead to no good. I will state, however. General, that I am equally anxious for peace with yourself, and the whole North entertains the same feeling. The terms upon which peace can be had are well understood. By the South laying down their arms they will hasten that most desirable...
Seite 25 - General Lee was dressed in a full uniform which was entirely new, and was wearing a sword of considerable value, very likely the sword which had been presented by the State of Virginia ; at all events, it was an entirely different sword from the one that would ordinarily be worn in the field. In my rough traveling suit, the uniform of a private with the straps of a lieutenant-general, I must have contrasted very strangely with a man so handsomely dressed, six feet high and of faultless form.