Heroes of the Army in AmericaJ.B. Lippincott, 1919 - 346 pages |
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... HORSE HARRY OF '76 ....... FRANCIS MARION , THE SWAMP FOX OF THE Carolinas . GEORGE ROGERS CLARK , THE WINNER OF THE NORTHWEST .. 99 WINFIELD SCOTT , THE VICTOR AT NIAGARA AND IN MEXICO 108 ANDREW JACKSON , the OLD HICKORY OF the ...
... HORSE HARRY OF '76 ....... FRANCIS MARION , THE SWAMP FOX OF THE Carolinas . GEORGE ROGERS CLARK , THE WINNER OF THE NORTHWEST .. 99 WINFIELD SCOTT , THE VICTOR AT NIAGARA AND IN MEXICO 108 ANDREW JACKSON , the OLD HICKORY OF the ...
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... horse- men and rode at full gallop down the steep steps , while the foe looked on expecting every moment to see him dashed to pieces . But the mettled steed dashed down the dangerous hill in safety and the daring rider escaped . Putnam ...
... horse- men and rode at full gallop down the steep steps , while the foe looked on expecting every moment to see him dashed to pieces . But the mettled steed dashed down the dangerous hill in safety and the daring rider escaped . Putnam ...
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... horse and on the way to the scene of conflict , having directed the volunteers of the neighborhood to rendezvous at Med- ford , near Boston . Two regiments were formed , of one of which Stark was unanimously elected colonel . On the ...
... horse and on the way to the scene of conflict , having directed the volunteers of the neighborhood to rendezvous at Med- ford , near Boston . Two regiments were formed , of one of which Stark was unanimously elected colonel . On the ...
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... horse . He wrote a work entitled " Reason the only Oracle of Man , " the first work ever issued in America formally attacking Christianity . A fire de- stroyed most of the edition and the volume is now very rare . NATHANIEL GREENE , THE ...
... horse . He wrote a work entitled " Reason the only Oracle of Man , " the first work ever issued in America formally attacking Christianity . A fire de- stroyed most of the edition and the volume is now very rare . NATHANIEL GREENE , THE ...
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... horses they could find , they rode briskly away to the seat of war . Soon after this the Assembly of Rhode Island ... horse again active duty was found for him in watching the British on Staten Island and commanding the troops in New ...
... horses they could find , they rode briskly away to the seat of war . Soon after this the Assembly of Rhode Island ... horse again active duty was found for him in watching the British on Staten Island and commanding the troops in New ...
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Popular passages
Page 153 - If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persons in Washington. " You have done your best to sacrifice this army.
Page 186 - I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton.
Page 29 - Edmund Palmer, an officer in the enemy's service, was taken as a spy lurking within our lines ; he has been tried as a spy, condemned as a spy, and shall be executed as a spy ; and the flag is ordered to depart immediately. " ISRAEL PUTNAM. " PS — He has, accordingly, been executed.
Page 161 - 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 183 - There are many officers to whom these remarks are applicable to a greater or less degree, proportionate to their ability as soldiers ; but what I want is to express my thanks to you and McPherson, as the men to whom, above all others, I feel indebted for whatever I have had of success.
Page 172 - With all my devotion to the Union, and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been able to make up my mind to raise my hand against my relatives, my children, my home.
Page 14 - If you speak of eloquence, Mr. Rutledge, of South Carolina, is by far the greatest orator ; but if you speak of solid information and sound judgment, Colonel Washington is unquestionably the greatest man on that floor.
Page 220 - In this position, the left wing received six distinct assaults by the combined forces of Hoke, Hardee, and Cheatham, under the immediate command of General Johnston himself, without giving an inch of ground, and doing good execution on the enemy's ranks, especially with our artillery, the enemy having little or none.
Page 187 - I declined it publicly, and the fact was universally noticed. I then took my post on the left of the President, and for six hours and a half stood, while the army passed in the order of the Fifteenth, Seventeenth, Twentieth, and Fourteenth Corps. It was, in my judgment, the most magnificent army in existence — sixty-five thousand men, in splendid physique, who had just completed a march of nearly two thousand miles in a hostile country...