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Page 12
... enemy designed to check , and changed the latter's campaign in Mis- souri from aggressive to defensive ; but the main value of this movement was in its development of the character and qualities of the coming chief of our armies . The ...
... enemy designed to check , and changed the latter's campaign in Mis- souri from aggressive to defensive ; but the main value of this movement was in its development of the character and qualities of the coming chief of our armies . The ...
Page 13
... enemy massed upon him . " We are surrounded and lost , " said one of his alarmed staff . " No , " said Grant , we have whipped them once : we can whip them again . We cut in : we must cut out . " At Pittsburg Landing , as his lines were ...
... enemy massed upon him . " We are surrounded and lost , " said one of his alarmed staff . " No , " said Grant , we have whipped them once : we can whip them again . We cut in : we must cut out . " At Pittsburg Landing , as his lines were ...
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... enemy's works . " They read that Fort Donelson had been made by the Confederacy the " strongest place in that theatre of operation . " Every thing that military skill and engineering could do for it had been done . To repel attack , the ...
... enemy's works . " They read that Fort Donelson had been made by the Confederacy the " strongest place in that theatre of operation . " Every thing that military skill and engineering could do for it had been done . To repel attack , the ...
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... enemy's dead packed with several days ' rations . With that insight into the minutest details which belongs to instinctively military natures , he deciphered the rebel intention . " They are trying to escape . Armies don't come out to ...
... enemy's dead packed with several days ' rations . With that insight into the minutest details which belongs to instinctively military natures , he deciphered the rebel intention . " They are trying to escape . Armies don't come out to ...
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... enemy . " The effect of this remarkable victory upon the North was incalculable . The bravery of that section had long been demonstrated . The willingness to give life and treasure for the flag had never been in dispute from the start ...
... enemy . " The effect of this remarkable victory upon the North was incalculable . The bravery of that section had long been demonstrated . The willingness to give life and treasure for the flag had never been in dispute from the start ...
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Page 47 - I much fear that the spirit which you have aided to infuse into the army, of criticising their commander and withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you. I shall assist you as far as I can to put it down. Neither you nor Napoleon, if he were alive again, could get any good out of an army while such a spirit prevails in it ; and now beware of rashness. Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.
Page 205 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Page 64 - It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work that they have thus far so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to...
Page 8 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 129 - ... the faith of the United States is solemnly pledged to the payment in coin, or its equivalent, of all t he obligations of the United States...
Page 129 - That in order to remove any doubt as to the purpose of the government to discharge all just obligations to the public creditors, and to settle conflicting questions and interpretations of the laws by virtue of which such obligations have been contracted, it is hereby provided and declared that the faith of the United States...
Page 205 - I see her as an eagle, mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam, — purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance, while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms.
Page 136 - And on and after the first day of January, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, the Secretary of the Treasury shall redeem, in coin, the United States legal-tender notes then outstanding on their presentation for redemption, at the office of the assistant treasurer of the United States in the city of New York, in sums of not less than fifty dollars.
Page 129 - United States notes shall be convertible into coin at the option of the holder, or unless at such time the bonds of the United States bearing a lower rate of interest than the bonds to be redeemed can be sold at par in coin. And the United States also solemnly pledges its faith to make provision at the earliest practicable period for the redemption of the United States notes in coin.
Page 56 - I have no doubt but the enemy are exceedingly anxious to hold out until after the Presidential election. They have many hopes from its effects. They hope a counter revolution; they hope the election of a peace candidate; in fact, like Micawber, they hope for something to turn up.