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Page 16 - The country looks to this army to relieve it from the devastation and disgrace of a hostile invasion. Whatever fatigues and sacrifices we may be called upon to undergo, let us have in view constantly the magnitude of the interests involved, and let each man determine to do his duty, leaving to an all-controlling Providence the decision of the contest.
Page 19 - In his testimony before the Committee on the Conduct of the War, he emphatically denied it, in terms of such solemnity, that, now, when he stands before the tribunal to which he then appealed, it is but just that it should be repeated, here. " I utterly
Page 19 - I utterly deny ever having intended or thought, for one instant, to withdraw that army, unless the military contingencies which the future should develop during the course of the day might render it a matter of necessity that the army should be withdrawn.
Page 18 - ... his customary rapidity and energy, he advanced at once on the force opposed to him, which already largely outnumbered his own; but hardly was the movement commenced, when he fell, mortally wounded. Brave men were to die by thousands on that terrible field ; yet no one could fall whose loss was more seriously felt and more deeply deplored. Not the men of the First Corps only, whom he had long led, but the whole army, knew him as a soldier in whose bravery and skill the most implicit confidence...
Page 27 - ... as generation after generation shall come in their long succession, while the great flag that it bore at the head of its marching columns waves over a free and united people, it will be remembered that in its day and generation, and in its time and place, the Army of the Potomac did for Liberty and Law, for the Constitution and the Union deeds worthy of immortal honor. And he that was its leader on so many a hot and bloody day, and on so many a well-contested field, we leave him to his long repose,...
Page 18 - ... of the honor and love in which they were held by their countrymen; but on the field and at the head of the First Corps died Keynolds, then, as always, unassuming, modest, brave, contributing nobly to that victory whose fruits he was never to enjoy. Yet where could man die better than in the defence of his native State, his lifeblood mingling with the soil on which he first drew breath ? The 4th of July, 1863, was the proudest day which up to that time the Union arms had ever known, for the cannon...
Page 15 - Captain Chesney, of the Royal Engineers, professor of military history, Sandhurst College, a military critic of some reputation, in referring to this plan, says, "We may search the history of modern campaigns in vain to find a more striking example of the effect produced by operating on the enemy's communications than that of this movement of Hooker's.
Page 27 - States, attest that the moderation and firmness, the humanity and love of justice, which were essential attributes of his character, make his civil life as honorable as his military career was splendid. Comrades, the army which he commanded so long has passed away. No more shall its bugles break the sweet stillness of the morning air, as with their reveille they salute the coming day; no more shall the falling night hear the rolling tattoo of its drums. Its tents are struck ; and its cannon have...
Page 27 - Each year, we, who were its survivors, assemble in sadly diminishing numbers, as the remorseless artillery of time hurls its fatal missiles into our ranks, until, shortly, a few old men only shall gather together and strive, with feeble voices, to raise the thundering battlecheer with which we once answered the rebel yells, to sink, themselves, soon after, under the common lot.
Page 21 - Culp's-hill ; and their determined resistance had delayed a termination of the struggle, until nearly noon. It was one o'clock, on the third of July, when all was ready, within the Confederate lines, for that celebrated assault which ranks among the most remarkable in history, alike for the fierceness with which it was made and the resolution and persistency with which it was met and foiled. It has been compared to the charge of the Old Guard, at Waterloo; but not, I think, very happi ly, for that...