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Wiley Britton, Memoirs of the Rebellion on the Border 1863. 6 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
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Wiley Britton, Memoirs of the Rebellion on the Border 1863., Chapter 15: (search)
Chapter 15: An agreement in regard to the cessation of picket firing mostly young men in the army they have no Alcestis to die for them General Cooper's army moves back twenty miles, perhaps to find better grazing a rebel reconnoitering force west of the Fort General Cabell's force near Cincinnati the Indians ha We come to the final remark, that our young soldiers who are cut off when life is sweetest, and going down to their graves by the thousand almost daily, have no Alcestis to die for them. But they have proved themselves as generous as Alcestis, for they have laid down their lives for the living and unborn millions of their race. Alcestis, for they have laid down their lives for the living and unborn millions of their race. If life on the average is desirable or worth living, what an immensely greater amount of happiness there might be if the aged, who have but a short term of years before them, could die for the young. But the gift of life scarcely anyone desires to part with, though he knows he can retain it only for a short period. The old will