Life of Jefferson Davis, with an Authentic Account of His Private and Public Career, and His Death and Burial Together with the Life of "Stonewall" Jackson (Thomas Jonathan Jackson) Including His Glorious Military Career and His Tragic Death on the BattlefieldInternational Book Company, 1890 |
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A. P. Hill advance arms artillery attack Banks batteries battle battle-field Beauregard brigade Bull Run camp campaign captured cavalry Centreville Chancellorsville Chickahominy Colonel column command commenced Confederacy Confederate army corps crossed D. H. Hill death despatched division duty enemy engagement Federal army Federal force field fight fire flank Fredericksburgh front Front Royal Gordonsville Government guns Harper's Ferry Heintzelman honor Hooker horse hour hundred infantry Jackson James River Jefferson Davis latter Longstreet Manassas McClellan ment miles military Mississippi Missouri Compromise morning moved movement never night North o'clock occupied officer party passed Pope Port Republic position Potomac President prisoners railroad Rappahannock reached rear Rebels received reënforced regiment replied retired retreat Richmond river road scene Senate sent Shenandoah soldiers South Southern Stonewall Brigade Stonewall Jackson Strasburgh surrender thousand tion took town troops turnpike Union Valley victory Virginia Washington whilst Winchester wounded
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第 218 頁 - 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.
第 187 頁 - Cannon to the right of them, Cannon to the left of them, Cannon in front of them, Volleyed and thundered...
第 295 頁 - Tis nothing, — a private or two, now and then, Will not count in the news of the battle ; Not an officer lost, — only one of the men Moaning out, all alone, the death-rattle.
第 172 頁 - 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.
第 35 頁 - Jackson with the pathetic exclamation, "General, they are beating us back;" to which the latter promptly replied: "Sir, we'll give them the bayonet." General Bee immediately rallied his overtasked troops with the words: "There is Jackson standing like a stone wall. Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer.
第 33 頁 - The communities were declaring their independence; the people of those communities were asserting that no man was born - to use the language of Mr Jefferson - booted and spurred to ride over the rest of mankind; that men were created equal meaning the men of the political community; that there was no divine right to rule...
第 29 頁 - I rise, Mr. President, for the purpose of announcing to the Senate that I have satisfactory evidence that the State of Mississippi, by a solemn ordinance of her people, in convention assembled, has declared her separation from the United States. Under these circumstances, of course, my functions are terminated here. It has seemed to me proper, however, that I should appear in the Senate to announce that fact to my associates, and I will say but very little more.
第 23 頁 - March sixth, eighteen hundred and twenty, which, being inconsistent with the principle of non-intervention by Congress with slavery in the states and territories, as recognized by the legislation of eighteen hundred and fifty, commonly called the compromise measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void ; it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and...
第 154 頁 - Court-House, at that time the rear of the Federal army. On the same day General Pope desired to be relieved from his command. His resignation was accepted by the President, and General McClellan was at once appointed to the "command of the fortifications at Washington, and of all the troops for the defence of the capital.
第 29 頁 - It is known to Senators who have served with me here that I have for many years advocated, as an essential attribute of State sovereignty, the right of a State to secede from the Union. Therefore, if I had not believed there was justifiable cause; if I had thought that Mississippi was acting without sufficient provocation or without an existing necessity, I should still, under my theory of the Government, because of my allegiance to the State of which I am a citizen, have been bound by her action.