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Pindar, Odes (ed. Diane Arnson Svarlien) 1 1 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 1 1 Browse Search
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Pindar, Olympian (ed. Diane Arnson Svarlien), Olympian 6 For Hagesias of Syracuse Mule Car Race 472 or 468 B. C. (search)
Olympian 6 For Hagesias of Syracuse Mule Car Race 472 or 468 B. C. On the two possible dates see C. M. Bowra, Pindar (Oxford 1964), p. 409.Raising the fine-walled porch of our dwelling with golden pillars, we will build, as it were, a marvellous hall; at the beginning of our work we must place a far-shining front. If someone were an Olympic victor,and a guardian of the prophetic altar of Zeus at Pisa, and a fellow-founder of renowned Syracuse, what hymn of praise would that man fail to win, by finding fellow-citizens ungrudging in delightful song? Let the son of Sostratus know that this sandal fits his divinely-blessed foot. But excellence without dangeris honored neither among men nor in hollow ships. But many people remember, if a fine thing is done with toil. Hagesias, that praise is ready for you, which once Adrastus' tongue rightly spoke for the seer Amphiaraus, son of Oicles, when the earth swallowed up him and his shining horses. In Thebes, when the seven pyres of corpses had
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The Red River campaign. (search)
ld meet those of Steele within the enemy's lines at Shreveport, where, roughly speaking, Kirby Smith was within three hundred miles of either Banks or Steele, while the two Federal commanders, separated from each other at the start by nearly five hundred miles of hostile territory, could only communicate by the rivers in their rear over a long circuit, lengthening as they approached their common enemy in his central stronghold. Map of the Red River, and Arkansas and Missouri campaigns, of 1964. In estimating the forces at Kirby Smith's disposal to meet this triple invasion at 25,000 men, Banks was, as he had been the year before in the Port Hudson campaign, virtually correct, although on both occasions the Government regarded his figures as exaggerated. Since the forces told off for the Red River expedition numbered 42,000 officers and men of all arms, of whom Sherman was to furnish 10,000, Steele 15,000, and Banks 17,000, it is obvious that by concentrating his whole force,
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Graduates of the United States Military Academy at West Point, N. Y., [from the Richmond, Va., Dispatch, March 30, April 6, 27, and May 12, 1902.] (search)
. Appointed Tennessee. 9. Major, June 9, 1862. Chief of ordnance, Hardee's Division, 1862; in 1863-‘64 commanding arsenal, Charleston, S. C. Charles E. Patterson. 1903. Born Indiana. Appointed Arkansas. 16. Killed April 6, 1862, at Shiloh. Charles C. Campbell.* 1911. Born Missouri. Appointed Missouri. 24. Captain of artillery and Major First Missouri Infantry, Mathias W. Henry. 1931. Born Kentucky. Appointed Kentucky. 44, 1861 (June.) Clarence Derrick.* 1936. Born District Columbia. Appointed at Large. 4. Lieutenant-Colonel Twenty-third Virginia Battalion of Infantry. George O. Watts.* 1964. Born Kentucky. Appointed Kentucky. 32. Lieutenant, Confederate States Army. Engineer officer to General Villepigue, Fourth Sub. District, District of Mississippi. Frank A. Reynolds. 1965. Born Virginia. Appointed New Mexico. 33. Lieutenant-Colonel Thirty-ninth North Carolina Infantry, Mc-Nair's Brigade, Army of Tennessee