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Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3 47 1 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2 47 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 25. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 40 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 36 0 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 26 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 25 5 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 20 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: September 17, 1862., [Electronic resource] 19 1 Browse Search
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Robert Stiles, Four years under Marse Robert, Chapter 26: analysis of the soldier-life (search)
ve and reverence for his profession. It is all clear to me now. I am not a blind enthusiast. I admit that the almost enforced idleness of the camp in time of peace, the absence of women and children and the lack of other refining and elevating influence of home, are blemishes in the life of the soldier. Nevertheless, I think we may, in the light of our analysis, begin to comprehend why great soldiers-Sir Philip Sidney, Henry Havelock, Hedley Vicars, Chinese Gordon, Stonewall Jackson, Robert Lee — have exhibited an almost unrivaled elevation, strength, and perfection of character, both as men and as Christians. The late Dr. T. De Witt Talmage never penned a truer or a stronger paragraph than the following: The sword has developed the grandest natures that the world ever saw. It has developed courage — that sublime energy of the soul which defies the universe when it feels itself to be in the right. It has developed a self-sacrifice which repudiates the idea that our life
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