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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 42: summer outing. (search)
operation? who, but Colonel Jefferson Davis, of the First Mississippi regiment, on the fields of Buena Vista? (Tremendous applause.) He was justly entitled to the applause of the restorer of victory to the arms of the Union. Gentlemen, in our country, in this day, such a man, such a master of the art of war, so daring in the field; such a man may not only aspire to the highest places in the executive government of the Union, but such a man may acquire what nowhere else since the days of Cimon and Miltiades, of the Cincinnati and the Cornelii, of Athens and of Rome, has been done by the human race — the combination of eminent powers, of intellectual cultivation, and of eloquence, with the practical qualities of a statesman and general. (Tremendous cheering.) But, gentlemen, I am again betrayed beyond my purpose. Sir (addressing General Davis), we welcome you to the commonwealth of Massachusetts. （Six cheers.) You may not find here the ardent skies of your own sunny South, b
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Appendix E (search)
the example of that gallant operation—who but Colonel Jefferson Davis, of the First Mississippi Regiment, on the field of Buena Vista? He was justly entitled to the applause of the restorer of victory to the arms of the Union. Gentlemen, in our country, in this day, such a man, such a master of the art of war, so daring in the field, such a man may not only aspire to the highest places in the executive government of the Union, but such a man may acquire what nowhere else, since the days of Cimon and Miltiades, of the Cincinnati and the Cornelii of Athens and of Rome, has been done by the human race, the combination of eminent powers, of intellectual cultivation, and of eloquence with the practical qualities of a statesman and general. But, gentlemen, I am again betrayed beyond my purpose. Sir [addressing General Davis], we welcome you to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. You may not find here the ardent skies of your own sunny South, but you will find as ardent hearts, as warm
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Everett, Edward, 1794-1865 (search)
not be recovered. On the fourth day the mournful procession was formed; mothers, wives, sisters, daughters, led the way, and to them it was permitted, by the simplicity of ancient manners, to utter aloud their lamentations for the beloved and the lost; the male relatives and friends of the deceased followed; citizens and strangers closed the train. Thus marshalled, they moved to the place of interment in that famous Ceramicus, the most beautiful suburb of Athens, which had been adorned by Cimon, the son of Miltiades, with walks and fountains and columns—whose groves were filled with altars, shrines, and temples— whose gardens were kept forever green by the streams from the neighboring hills, and shaded with the trees sacred to Minerva and coeval with the foundations of the city—whose circuit enclosed the olive grove of Academe, . . . Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trilled his thick-warbled note the summer long, whose pathways gleamed with the monuments of the illus<
The Daily Dispatch: March 7, 1863., [Electronic resource], Treatment of our Surgeons by the Federal--Robbery of clothing. (search)
every other nation in educating young men specially for the sea service. Not until 1672, when France discovered that a General was not more fitted to command a fleet than a commands a brigade, had any nation, ancient or modern, drawn a line of complete separation between the military and naval professions. The great Commanders of ancient times were amphibious warriors — alligators and hippopotamus — who were equally fitted for fighting by land and water. But vessels of war, in the days of Cimon and Lysander, Pompey and Ayripps, required little nautical science for their management, and could be directed by any amphibious animal of ordinary intelligence without difficulty.--They fought, in part, on the butting principle, like the river rams of American warfare, which are sometimes commanded by civil engineers, and not unfrequently captured by Colonels of cavalry. Emollet's life-like pictures of Bowling and Traunton describe the genuine old sea-dogs who were mingled with the mil