Stonewall Jackson: A Military Biography ...D. Appleton, 1866 - 470 strani |
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Stran 386 - Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever.
Stran 134 - From lightning and tempest; from plague, pestilence, and famine; from battle and murder, and from sudden death, , Good Lord, deliver us.
Stran 245 - The strongest position a soldier should desire to occupy is one from which he can most easily advance against the enemy.
Stran 169 - Ashby bore to my command, for most of the previous twelve months, will justify me in saying that, as a partisan officer, I never knew his superior. His daring was proverbial, his powers of endurance almost incredible, his tone of character heroic, and his sagacity almost intuitive in divining the purposes and movements of the enemy.
Stran 342 - In reviewing the achievements of the army during the present campaign, the Commanding General cannot withhold the expression of his admiration of the indomitable courage it has displayed in battle, and its cheerful endurance of privation and hardship on the march. Since your great victories around Richmond...
Stran 331 - Then, as the messenger was riding away, he called him back. " Tell him if he cannot hold his ground, then the bridge, to the last man ! — always the bridge ! If the bridge is lost, all is lost.
Stran 434 - I have just received your note, informing me that you were wounded. I cannot express my regret at the occurrence. Could I have directed events, I should have chosen, for the good of the country, to have been disabled in your stead. I congratulate you upon the victory which is due to your skill and energy.
Stran 325 - More than half of the brigades of Lawton and Hays were either killed or wounded, and more than a third of Trimble's, and all the regimental commanders in those brigades, except two, were killed or wounded.
Stran 135 - McDowell has been ordered to march upon that city by the shortest route. He is ordered — keeping himself always in position to save the capital from all possible attack —so to operate as to put his left wing in communication with your right wing, and you are instructed to cooperate so as to establish this communication as soon as possible, by extending your right wing to the north of Richmond.
Stran 66 - There is Jackson standing like a stone wall. Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer.