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Eliza Frances Andrews, The war-time journal of a Georgia girl, 1864-1865, Prologue (search)
Eliza Frances Andrews, The war-time journal of a Georgia girl, 1864-1865, chapter 5 (search)
The Daily Dispatch: January 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], Speech of U. S. Senator Benjamin on the Crisis . (search)
Third of January.
The gallant fleet of States, which has so long sailed together to the admiration of the world, is, we are told, about to part company forever.
Their union is proclaimed to be a thing of the past, and to belong to history alone. "Troja fuit" must be written on the spot on which they stood.
It cannot be amiss, then, to call to memory some of the things that they did together, under the eye of Washington, and this day has been sanctified by one of the most glorious of them all. It was on this day, eighty-three years ago, that Washington, having extricated himself the night before from his perilous position in Trenton, made a flank march of twelve miles, fell upon the rear of the British army at Princeton, gained another glorious victory, and completely changed the face of affairs.
It was a great exploit, worthy of any commander that ever lived, rivalled only by the march of the Consul Nero, when he left Hannibal in the lurch on the Vulturous, and fell upon