Memoirs of Robert E. Lee: His Military and Personal History, Embracing a Large Amount of Information Hitherto UnpublishedJ. M. Stoddart, 1886 - 707 Seiten |
Inhalt
| 17 | |
| 24 | |
| 47 | |
| 72 | |
| 82 | |
| 100 | |
| 114 | |
| 134 | |
| 267 | |
| 303 | |
| 322 | |
| 352 | |
| 369 | |
| 390 | |
| 409 | |
| 428 | |
| 145 | |
| 161 | |
| 182 | |
| 203 | |
| 225 | |
| 246 | |
| 437 | |
| 456 | |
| 471 | |
| 487 | |
| 501 | |
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
A. P. Hill advance Anderson Army of Northern arrived artillery assault attack Battalion battle Brig.-gen brigade Brigadier-general Burnside campaign Capt Captain Lee captured cavalry Chancellorsville Colonel column command Confederate crossed D. H. Hill defence directed division duty Early enemy enemy's engaged eral Ewell Ewell's Federal army field fire Fitz Lee flank force Ford Fredericksburg front Georgia Grant Harper's Ferry HEADQUARTERS ARMY Hill's honor horse infantry Jackson James James River Johnston Lee's letter Lieut.-col Longstreet Longstreet's corps loss Major-general Manassas Maryland McClellan McLaws Meade ment miles military morning Mountain move movement night North Carolina Northern Virginia obedient servant occupied officers operations ordered Petersburg position Potomac President R. E. LEE Railroad Rapidan Rappahannock reached rear regiment reinforcements repulsed retired retreat Richmond Ridge river road rode sent Sharpsburg soldiers soon South staff Stuart success tion troops Valley Virginia Battery Warrenton Washington wounded
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 418 - The result of the last week must convince you of the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the army of Northern Virginia in this struggle. I feel that it is so, and regard it as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility of any further effusion of blood by asking of you the surrender of that portion of the Confederate States army known as the army of Northern Virginia.
Seite 60 - Lee, engineer, so constantly distinguished, also bore important orders from me, (September 13,) until he fainted from a wound and the loss of two nights
Seite 423 - ... whether they would be able to put in a crop to carry themselves and their families through the next winter without the aid of the horses they were then riding. The United States did not want them and I would, therefore, instruct the officers...
Seite 422 - Yes, I know they will say hard things of us; they will not understand how we are overwhelmed by numbers. But that is not the question, colonel; the question is, " Is it right to surrender this army!" If it is right, then I will take all the responsibility !' " * Presently General Lee called to have me ride forward to him.
Seite 419 - I would say that peace being my great desire, there is but one condition I would insist upon — namely, that the men and officers surrendered shall be disqualified for taking up arms again against the Government of the United States until properly exchanged.
Seite 226 - Two attempts subsequently made by the enemy to follow you across the river have resulted in his complete discomfiture and being driven back with loss. Achievements such as these demanded much valor and patriotism. History records few examples of greater fortitude and endurance than this army has exhibited, and I am commissioned by the President to thank you in the name of the Confederate States for the undying fame you have won for their arms.
Seite 83 - In this enlightened age there are few, I believe, but will acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil in any country.
Seite 262 - The daring, skill, and energy of this great and good soldier, by the decree of an all-wise Providence, are now lost to us. But while we mourn his death, we feel that his spirit still lives, and will inspire the whole army with his indomitable courage and unshaken confidence in God as our hope and our strength.
Seite 419 - GENERAL : I received at a late hour your note of to-day. In mine of yesterday I did not intend to propose the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, but to ask the terms of your proposition.
Seite 367 - I have destroyed over two thousand barns filled with wheat and hay and farming implements, over seventy mills filled with flour and wheat; have driven in front of the army over four thousand head of stock, and have killed and issued to the troops not less than three thousand sheep.