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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, Alabama Volunteers . (search)
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, Arkansas Volunteers . (search)
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, Illinois Volunteers . (search)
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, Indiana Volunteers . (search)
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, Ohio Volunteers . (search)
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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, Corps de Afrique .--United States Colored Volunteers . (search)
Chapter 9: Garrison and Emerson.
These two men were almost exactly the same age; for Emerson was born in 1803 and Garrison in 1805.
The precocity of Garrison, however, who became one of the figure-heads of his day at the age of twenty-four, and the tardy, inward development of Emerson, who did not become widely known till almost twenty years later, seem to class them in separate generations.
Each of the men was a specialist of the extremest kind; Garrison, devoted to the visible and particular evils of his times, Emerson, seeking always the abstraction, and able to see the facts before his face only by the aid of general laws; Garrison all heart, Emerson all head; Garrison determined to remake the world, Emerson convinced that he must keep his eyes on the stars and wait for his message.
Each of these men was, nevertheless, twin to the other.
Their spirit was the same, and the influence of each was a strand in the same reaction, a cry from the same abyss.
Emerson, no less th
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 33. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Twelfth Alabama Infantry , Confederate States Army. (search)