 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 336 pages
...They had arranged it so that I was given the honor of raising it to the head of its staff, and when it went up I was pleased that it went to its place by the strength of my own feeble arm. When, according to the arrangement, the cord was pulled, and... | |
 | John Bigelow - France - 1909 - 658 pages
...honoring him who had surrendered his arms. He lived to raise the national Union colors in Richmond just four years from the day when, invited to raise...the national standard on Independence Hall, he said: "Besides this, our friends had provided a magnificent flag. I had to raise it; and when it went up,... | |
 | George Henry Preble - Flags - 1917 - 426 pages
...they had arranged it so that I was given the honor of raising it to the head of its staff; and when it went up, I was pleased that it went to its place by the strength of my own feeble arm.2 When, according to the arrangement, the cord was pulled, and... | |
 | 1923 - 520 pages
...arranged it so that I was given the honor of raising it to the head of its staff, [applause-] and when it went up, I was pleased that it went to its place by the strength of my own feeble arm. When, according to the arrangement, the cord was pulled and it... | |
 | History - 1924 - 288 pages
...arranged it so that I was given the honor of raising it to the head of its staff, [applause-^ and when it went up, I was pleased that it went to its place by the strength of my own feeble arm. When, according to the arrangement, the cord was pulled and it... | |
 | United States. Department of State - United States - 1866 - 632 pages
...honoring him who had surrendered his arms. He lived to raise the national Union colors in Richmond just four years from the day when, invited to raise...it went up, I was pleased that it went to its place by the strength of my own feeble arm ; when the cord was pulled and it flaunted in the bright glowing... | |
 | David Herbert Donald, Harold Holzer - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 462 pages
...They had arranged it so that I was given the honor of raising it to the head of its staff; and when it went up, I was pleased that it went to its place by the strength of my own feeble arm. When, according to the arrangement, the cord was pulled, and... | |
 | Larry D. Mansch - History - 2005 - 246 pages
...arranged it so that I was given the honor of raising it to the head of its staff [applause]; and when it went up, I was pleased that it went to its place by the strength of my own feeble arm. When, according to the arrangement, the cord was pulled and it... | |
 | Philip L. Ostergard - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 293 pages
...arranged it so that I was given the honor of raising it to the head of its staff [applause]; and when it went up, I was pleased that it went to its place by the strength of my own feeble arm. When, according to the arrangement, the cord was pulled and it... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - American literature - 1862 - 506 pages
...They had arranged it so that I was given the honor of raising it to the head of its staff, and when it went up I was pleased that it went to its place by the strength of my own feeble arm. When, according to the arrangement, the cord was pulled, and... | |
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And when it went up I was pleased that it went to its place by the strength of my own feeble arm ; when, according to the arrangement, the cord was pulled, and it... 
