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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 593 9 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 106 0 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 90 4 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 46 0 Browse Search
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 35 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 32 0 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 32 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 25. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 31 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 29 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: June 11, 1862., [Electronic resource] 28 0 Browse Search
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y man and gun. The fact of having done our duty to a sister State, the reputation of having pursued the call of honor and of duty, at the hazard of so great a loss, would do our cause more service among our own people, and with the world at large, than a dozen armies of the Potomac could do us, if we left it to be understood that we measured our performance of duty strictly by the degree of advantage, of cost, and of risk attending every undertaking. It was one of the cardinal maxims of Andrew Jackson that "rashness was policy," provided always that the rash act was responsive to the call of duty. When duty and honor lead the way, there is policy even in such forlorn acts of self-sacrifice as that of Leonidas and his Spartans at Thermopylaeæupon whose monument was inscribed the most glorious epitaph ever put upon the tomb of a soldier: " Stranger, Tell the Lacedaemonian that we Lie here in Obedience to her Laws." We err, however, in saying that the question of duty and patriotis