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Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3 309 19 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2 309 19 Browse Search
General Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant 170 20 Browse Search
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary 117 33 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 65 11 Browse Search
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 62 2 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 36 2 Browse Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 34 12 Browse Search
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee 29 3 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 29 3 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: May 21, 1863., [Electronic resource], Burnside's Military Executions. (search)
t men in Kentucky for the Southern cause. They "died without a struggle," is the consoling announcement; and Gen. Burnside most graciously ordered their lifeless bodies to be"delivered to their friends! " That man, at the beginning of the war, put on the sir of the humane gentleman; but finding that not popular with the Yankees, he essays now a shorter road to favor and thrift in the Northern mind, by throwing off all hypocrisy and becoming the unrelieved and unmitigated brute. He sees how Butler has thriven in Yankee esteem — how he has firmly fixed himself on a granite base on the very rock of Plymouth, where he cannot be shaken or displaced by his crimes against justice and humanity. He has therefore become his imitator, and is rising in the popular scale along with him Humiliated and disgraced by his failures on the Potomac, he finds a malicious satisfaction, as well as a facite way of lifting himself up in Yankeedom, in issuing inhuman and bloody orders against all sympathizers
The Daily Dispatch: May 21, 1863., [Electronic resource], Yankee praises of Jackson. (search)
d, and their sorrow is tempered by a sense of relief" The Enquirer thinks that their creditable mimicry of admiration of him "is second only to that unfeigned homage which, in their inmost souls, they pay to the living grandeur of their own hero, Butler, who embodies, in highest perfection, all that they can conceive of moral grandeur; for his is patriotism that pays — a glory that can be measured in gold, invested, discounted, made to bear interest" It proceeds to undeceive them, and to prove that in accordance with their own standard of true glory, as displayed in Butler, their great model, Jackson is unworthy of their praises. It says: "It may seem harsh, at such a moment, to damage, in the eyes of the Yankees, the memory of our Confederate General, just when the public heart of that nation is thrilled with the luxury of magnanimous sympathy and the editorial tear hardly yet dried; but we think it a duty to inform them — they will scarcely believe us; they had formed a smarte