Robert E. LeeG.W. Jacobs, 1907 - 380 Seiten |
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A. P. Hill advance Army of Northern arrived artillery assault attack battle began body brigade campaign capture cause cavalry Cemetery Ridge centre Chancellorsville Chickahominy Cold Harbor Colonel Lee column command Confederacy Confederate army Confederate troops crossed Culp's Hill D. H. Hill Davis defeat defense detachment dispatched division duty enemy enemy's entrenchments eral Ewell favor Federal army Federal line Federal troops field flank force Fortress Monroe Fredericksburg front Gettysburg Gordonsville Grant ground guns Harper's Ferry Hooker hope hour infantry influence invasion Jackson James River Johnston Lee's lieutenant line of communication Little Round Top Longstreet McClellan Meade ment miles military Mountain movement never night Northern Virginia officer operations passed Petersburg Pope position Potomac Railway Rappahannock rear reinforcements repulse retreat Richmond road Second Manassas Sedgwick seized Sharpsburg slaves soldiers soon South Southern spirit stationed Stuart success tion Valley victory Washington West whole withdrawal
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Seite 320 - I think it the duty of every citizen, in the present condition of the country, to do all in his power to aid in the restoration of peace and harmony, and in no way to oppose the policy of the State or general government directed to that object. It is particularly incumbent on those charged with the instruction of the young to set them an example of submission to authority, and I could not consent to be the cause of animadversion upon the college.
Seite 91 - But I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than a dissolution of the Union. It would be an accumulation of all the evils we complain of, and I am willing to sacrifice everything but honor for its preservation. I hope, therefore, that all constitutional means will be exhausted before there is a resort to force. Secession is nothing but revolution.
Seite 307 - Men, we have fought through the war together. I have done( the best that I could for you.
Seite 95 - I would have much preferred that your choice had fallen upon an abler man. Trusting in Almighty God, an approving conscience, and the aid of my fellow-citizens, I devote myself to the service of my native State, in whose behalf alone will I ever again draw my sword.
Seite 87 - While we see the course of the final abolition of slavery is onward, and we give it the aid of our prayers and all justifiable means in our power, we must leave the progress as well as the result in his hands, who sees the end and who chooses to work by slow things, and with whom a thousand years are but as a single day...
Seite 78 - Simply because of the war that is made against our institutions; simply because of the want of security which results from the action of our opponents in the northern States. Had you made no political war upon us, had you observed the principles of our Confederacy as States, that the people of each State were to take care...
Seite 205 - It is with heartfelt satisfaction, that the Commanding General announces to the army, that the operations of the last three days have determined that our enemy must either ingloriously fly, or come out from behind his defences, and give us battle on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits him.
Seite 94 - During the whole of that time, more than a quarter of a century, I have experienced nothing but kindness from my superiors, and the most cordial friendship from my comrades.
Seite 87 - Providence to accomplish its purposes, the result will never be the same ; that the reasons he gives for interference in what he has no concern holds good for every kind of interference with our neighbors when we disapprove their conduct.
Seite 260 - Second, to hammer continuously against the armed force of the enemy and his resources, until by mere attrition, if in no other way, there should be nothing left to him but an equal submission with the loyal section of our common country to the Constitution and laws of the land.