 His face was still calm, but his carriage was no longer erect, as his soldiers had been used to see it. The trouble of those last days had already ploughed great furrows in his forehead. His eyes were red as if with weeping; his cheeks sunken and haggard;...  A Rebel's Recollections - Page 147by George Cary Eggleston - 1875 - 260 pagesFull view - About this book
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...erect, as his soldiers had been used to see it. The trouble of those last days had already ploughed great furrows in his forehead. His eyes were red as...yet he was calm, self-possessed, and deliberate.' So great was his anguish that it wrung a wish to end it all, even from a natural self-control complete... | |
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...erect, as his soldiers had been used to see it. The trouble of those last days had already ploughed great furrows in his forehead. His eyes were red as...yet he was calm, self-possessed, and deliberate." 38 So great was his anguish that it wrung a wish to end it all, even from a natural self-control complete... | |
 | Randolph Harrison McKim - 1917 - 284 pages
...if we are not here to support and protect them?"t Another eyewitness thus describes his appearance, "No one who looked upon him then, as he stood there...forget the intense agony written upon his features." * Such was the commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, glorious in victory, even more glorious... | |
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...erect, as his soldiers had been used to see it. The trouble of those last days had already ploughed great furrows in his forehead. His eyes were red as...features. And yet he was calm, self-possessed, and deliberate."3 So great was his anguish that it womg a wish to end it all. even from a natural self-control... | |
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