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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays 8 0 Browse Search
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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.) 6 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: may 1, 1862., [Electronic resource] 4 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: March 17, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Mobile. (search)
ainted with the practice or science of military matters, and you were offered an appointment as Captain, or Colonel, or General in the Confederats army, with a salary of one, two, or three thousand dollars per annum, would you not unhesitatingly reply, "I know nothing of the art of war; am too old to learn, and will not, for the sake of fifthy lucre, betray my country !" "Appoint somebody also who has learned military affairs, either at school or in camp." Are stump orators Gods; born like Minerva, Bellona, or Mars, full armed, all- wise and invincible chieftains; and you, my intelligent readers, made of different and of baser clay, can you conceive it possible for a mere mortal, past fifty, to become a good soldier or a great General, without previous study, or practice, or experience? Cartainly not. If a single one of our improvised officers makes a good leader from the start, he must be like Joan of Are, inspired from above. But the day of miracles and of impiration has passed,