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Page 29 - I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton.
Page 5 - Of the American Civil War it may safely be asserted that there was a single cause, slavery.
Page 54 - The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on.
Page 47 - All things considered the statistics show no reason why the North should reproach the South. If we add to one side of the account the refusal to exchange the prisoners and the greater resources, and to the other the distress of the Confederacy the balance struck will not be far from even. Certain it is that no deliberate intention existed either in Richmond or Washington to inflict suffering on captives more than inevitably accompanied their confinement. Rather than to charge either section with...
Page 6 - If one word or phrase were selected to account for the war," wrote Randall, ". . . it would have to be such a word as fanaticism (on both sides), misunderstanding, misrepresentation, or perhaps politics.
Page 28 - If the enemy has left Maryland, as I suppose he has, he should have upon his heels veterans, militiamen, men on horseback, and everything that can be got to follow to eat out Virginia clear and clean as far as they go. so that crows flying over it for the balance of this season will have to carry their provender with them.
Page 55 - ... had God entrusted the army to his own care, for to Lee the Army of Northern Virginia was a divine instrument, which, as long as it was tempered by humility and repentance, must cut its way through all opposition. It was not efficiency which counted, or big battalions, or even discipline, but faith. What this bootless, ragged, half-starved army accomplished is one of the miracles of history.
Page 55 - ... in working to promote brotherhood and nationalism. He died in Lexington on Oct. 12, 1870, and was buried in the chapel on the campus of Washington and Lee University. SUMMARY Robert E. Lee was pious and courteous as a person, bold and audacious as a general. In the words of Winston Churchill, he was "one of the greatest captains known to the annals of war.
Page 3 - ... Government Printing Office. The Commission continued to circulate earlier publications, including its pamphlets Emancipation Centennial, 1962: A Brief Anthology of the Preliminary Proclamation; Free Homesteads for All Americans: The Homestead Act of 1862, by Paul W. Gates; The Origins of Land-Grant Colleges and State Universities, by Allan Nevins; and Our Women of the Sixties, by Sylvia GL Dannett and Katharine M. Jones. In its second category of publications, scholarly works of permanent value,...
Page 3 - ... benefit of young people. The demand soon exhausted printings of 100,000 copies, offered free of charge, and the Commission found it necessary to place further distribution in the hands of the Government Printing Office. The Commission continued to circulate earlier publications, including its pamphlets Emancipation Centennial, 1962: A Brief Anthology of the Preliminary Proclamation; Free Homesteads for All Americans: The Homestead Act of 1862, by Paul W. Gates; The Origins of Land-Grant Colleges...