With all my devotion to the Union and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been able to make up my mind to raise my hand against my relatives, my children, my home. General Lee - Page 88by Fitzhugh Lee - 1894 - 433 pagesFull view - About this book
| American periodicals - 1866 - 956 pages
...yet in my own person I had to meet the question whether I should take arms against my native State. With all my devotion to the Union, and the feeling of loyalty and dnty of an American citizen, I have not been able to raise my hand against my relatives, my children,... | |
| Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1867 - 864 pages
...yet in my own person I had to meet the question, whether I should take part against my native State. With all my devotion to the Union, and the feeling...hand against my relatives, my children, my home. I have, therefore, resigned my commission in the army, and save in defence of my native State, with the... | |
| Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1867 - 894 pages
...yet in my own person I had to meet the question, whether I should take part against my native State. With all my devotion to the Union, and the feeling...hand against my relatives, my children, my home. I have, therefore, resigned my commission in the army, and save in defence of my native State, with the... | |
| James D. McCabe - Generals - 1866 - 752 pages
...person I had to meet the question, whether I should take part against my native State. With all uiy devotion to the Union, and the feeling of loyalty...hand against my relatives, my children, my home. I have, therefore, resigned my commission in the army, and save in defence of my native State, with the... | |
| William Parker Snow - Confederate States of America - 1867 - 598 pages
...nati\e State. With all my devotion to the Union, and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an Amer iiM citizen, I have not been able to make up my mind to raise my hand »giinrt my relatives, my children, my home. I have, therefore, resigned my oimmitaion in the army,... | |
| Society of the Army of the Cumberland. Reunion - United States - 1870 - 288 pages
...whether I should take part against my native State With all my devotion to the Union, and the feelings of loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have...to raise my hand against my relatives, my children, and my homo. I have therefore resigned my commission in the army," etc. LEE here avows his devotion... | |
| Raphael Semmes - Alabama (Confederate cruiser) - 1869 - 864 pages
...yet in my. own person I had to meet the question, whether I should take part against my native State. With all my devotion to the Union, and the feeling...hand against my relatives, my children, my home. I have therefore resigned my commission in the army, and save in defence of my native State, with the... | |
| Raphael Semmes - Confederate States of America - 1869 - 866 pages
...yet in my own person I had to meet the question, whether I should lake part againxt my native State. With all my devotion to the Union, and the feeling...hand against my relatives, my children, my home. I have therefore resigned my commission in the army, and save in defence of my native State, with the... | |
| ADMIRAL RAPHAEL SEMMES - 1869 - 850 pages
...yet in my awn person I had to meet the question, whether I should take part against my native State. With all my devotion to the Union, and the feeling...hand against my relatives, my children, my home. I have therefore resigned my commission in the army, and save in defence of my native State, with the... | |
| Literature - 1904 - 402 pages
...take part against my own State. With all my devotion to the Union, and the feeling of duty and loyalty of an American citizen, I have not been able to make...hand against my relatives, my children, my home. I have therefore resigned my commission in the army, and, save in defence of my native State, with the... | |
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