Official Proceedings of ... Annual Reunion of Missouri Division, United Confederate Veterans ... |
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16th Mo 1st Mo 2d Mo 3d Mo 4th Mo Adjt Albert Sidney Johnston Appomattox August battery battle bloody brave Brigade Brigadier-General C. C. RAINWATER Camp Capt Captain Cemetery Clark's Cockerill's Cockrell Colonel command Committee comrades Confederacy Confederate Home Confederate soldiers Constitution County courage dead duty ELIJAH GATES enemy erected Federal field flag Forest's fought French's gallant Gordon's graves Guibor H. N. Phillips Halliburton heroes heroic Higginsville Hill honor Inft J. B. Gantt Jackson Jefferson City Jones killed Lieutenant Louis Lyon Major Major-General Marmaduke's Marmaduke's Price's McCulloch McCullough's memory Miss Missourians monument officers Parson's Platte City Privates Ray County REGIMENT reunion Robt S. M. Kennard Shelby's Smith's South Southern Springfield Sterling Price Stewart's Stonewall Jackson Tenn Texas Thos to-day Union army United Confederate Veterans Veterans of Missouri Virginia Warrensburg Weightman West Plains Wilson's Creek wounded
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Page 50 - And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written.
Page 83 - I have not hesitated to say, and I repeat, that if the Northern States refuse, wilfully and deliberately, to carry into effect that part of the constitution which respects the restoration of fugitive slaves and congress provide no remedy, the South would no longer be bound to observe the compact.
Page 55 - Departed spirits of the mighty dead! Ye that at Marathon and Leuctra bled! Friends of the world! restore your swords to man, Fight in his sacred cause, and lead the van! Yet for Sarmatia's tears of blood atone, And make her arm puissant as your own!
Page 100 - States; to gather authentic data, statistics, documents, reports, plans, maps, and other material for an impartial history of the Confederate side; to collect and preserve relics and mementos of the war; to make and perpetuate a record of the service of every member of the United Confederate Veterans and all other living Confederate veterans, and, as far as possible, of their comrades who have preceded them into eternity.
Page 48 - Yes, give me a land with a grave in each spot, And names in the graves that shall not be forgot...
Page 83 - The proposition would be welcomed in Connecticut; and could we doubt of New Hampshire? But New York must be associated ; and how is her concurrence to be obtained ? She must be made the centre of the confederacy. Vermont and New Jersey would follow of course, and Rhode Island of necessity.
Page 56 - Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
Page 83 - States are, to submit to undelegated powers in no body of men on earth " ; and that " the project of the annexation of Texas, unless arrested on the threshold, may tend to drive these States into a dissolution of the Union.
Page 7 - Rains' position, at the same time ordering Generals Slack, McBride, Clark, and Parsons to move their infantry and artillery rapidly forward. I had ridden but a few hundred yards when I came suddenly upon the main body of the enemy, commanded by General Lyon in person. The infantry and artillery, which 1 had ordered to follow me, came up immediately, to the number of 2,036 men, and engaged the enemy.
Page 85 - And their deeds, proud deeds shall remain for us, And their names, dear names without stain for us, And the glories they won shall not wane for us, In legend and lay, Our heroes in gray Though dead, shall live over again for us.