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The Daily Dispatch: October 28, 1863., [Electronic resource], The speech of the President at Missionary Ridge . (search)
The speech of the President at Missionary Ridge.
--The editor of the Marietta (Ga.) Confederate, who was the only reporter that heard the speech of President Davis to the soldiers at Missionary Ridge, gives the following report of it:
He began by paying a warm tribute to their gallantry, displayed on the bloody field of Chickamauga, defeating the largely superior force of the enemy, who had boasted of their ability to penetrate to the heart of Georgia, and driving them back, like sheep, into a pen, and protected by strong entrenchments, from which naught but an indisposition to sacrifice, necessarily, the precious lives of our brave and patriotic soldiers, prevented us from driving them.
But, he said, they had given still higher evidence of courage, patriotism, and resolute determination to live freemen, or disfreemen, by their patient endurance and buoyant, cheerful spirits, timid privations and suffering from half-rations, thin blankets, ragged clothes, and shoeless fee