Heroes of the Army in AmericaJ.B. Lippincott, 1919 - 346 pages |
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... position and superintended the construction of its fortifications . In this command he showed his spirit in a characteristic incident . While he was at Peekskill , a lieutenant in the British service was taken within his lines and ...
... position and superintended the construction of its fortifications . In this command he showed his spirit in a characteristic incident . While he was at Peekskill , a lieutenant in the British service was taken within his lines and ...
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... took command and declared that he would shoot the first man who fled , telling them that they were in a good position and that a retreat would be fatal . The fight was kept up till night , when the fire HEROES OF THE ARMY 31.
... took command and declared that he would shoot the first man who fled , telling them that they were in a good position and that a retreat would be fatal . The fight was kept up till night , when the fire HEROES OF THE ARMY 31.
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... positions for the army on the Brandywine , but other generals , who were eager to fight in the open field , overruled his suggestions , and defeat followed . The disaster would have been worse but for Greene's coolness and skill in the ...
... positions for the army on the Brandywine , but other generals , who were eager to fight in the open field , overruled his suggestions , and defeat followed . The disaster would have been worse but for Greene's coolness and skill in the ...
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... in all . But he placed these in such excellent positions and inspired them with such sol- dierly zeal that the assailing force was foiled and obliged to march back again . The next affair in which he was engaged had to 50 HEROES OF THE ...
... in all . But he placed these in such excellent positions and inspired them with such sol- dierly zeal that the assailing force was foiled and obliged to march back again . The next affair in which he was engaged had to 50 HEROES OF THE ...
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... position of the invaders was so critical that Cornwallis was forced to turn and fight . Greene met him boldly . The militia were soon broken and fled , but the Continental regulars held their own with much courage . In the end they were ...
... position of the invaders was so critical that Cornwallis was forced to turn and fight . Greene met him boldly . The militia were soon broken and fled , but the Continental regulars held their own with much courage . In the end they were ...
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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...