Confederate Veteran, Količina 24S.A. Cunningham, 1916 |
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Adjutant Alabama Army of Tennessee battery battle of Franklin beautiful Birmingham born boys brave Brigade called Camp Capt Captain captured Cavalry Chapter Chief Colonel command Committee Company comrades Confederacy Confederate army Confederate soldier Confederate Veterans Congress convention County Davis death died Division enemy enlisted father federacy Federal fight fire flag fought friends Georgia guns heart Hill honor horses hundred Infantry J. E. B. Stuart Jackson James Jefferson Davis John killed lieutenant lived March Memorial Association ment miles military Miss Mississippi Missouri monument Nashville negro night North Northern officers organization passed patriotic prisoners regiment Reunion Richmond River Selma sent served Shiloh sons South Carolina Stonewall Jackson surrender Tenn Tennessee Texas Texas Brigade tion troops Union United Confederate Veterans Vice President Virginia Washington William wounded Yankees young
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Stran 116 - ... whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
Stran 251 - To WHOM IT MAY CONCERN : Any proposition which embraces the restoration of peace, the integrity of the whole Union, and the abandonment of slavery, and which comes by and with an authority that can control the armies now at war against the United States, will be received and considered by the Executive Government of the United States, and will be met by liberal terms on other substantial and collateral points; and the bearer or bearers thereof shall have safe conduct both ways. ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Stran 327 - SLEEP sweetly in your humble graves, — Sleep, martyrs of a fallen cause ! Though yet no marble column craves The pilgrim here to pause, In seeds of laurel in the earth The blossom of your fame is blown, And somewhere, waiting for its birth, The shaft is in the stone 1 Meanwhile, behalf the tardy years Which keep in trust your storied tombs, Behold!
Stran 39 - Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell in thy holy hill? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, And speaketh the truth in his heart; He that slandereth not with his tongue, Nor doeth evil to his friend, Nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour...
Stran 55 - ... rule which can be adopted and observed, consistently with the rights and honor of the United States and the security of their citizens. That rule announces, therefore, what will hereafter be the principle maintained by their government In every regularly documented American merchant- vessel, the crew who navigate it will find their protection in the flag which is over them.
Stran 294 - Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Stran 119 - I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies— from an army whose business it has been to seek the adversary, and to beat him when found, whose policy has been attack and not defence.
Stran 255 - In presenting the abandonment of armed resistance to the national authority on the part of the insurgents as the only indispensable condition to ending the war on the part of the Government, I retract nothing heretofore said as to slavery.
Stran 159 - Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again ; The eternal years of God are hers ; But Error, wounded, writhes with pain, And dies among his worshippers.
Stran 296 - The truth is the whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak vengeance upon South Carolina. I almost tremble at her fate, but feel that she deserves all that seems in store for her.