 | Emma Elizabeth Brown - 1885 - 408 pagina’s
...the shadow of death to enable me to witness these things. US GUANT. To General Buckner he wrote : — I have witnessed since my sickness just what I have...— harmony and good feeling between the sections. I have always contended that if there had been nobody left but the soldiers we should have had peace... | |
 | Walter K. Fobes - 1899 - 266 pagina’s
...even in the rack of torture, he spoke the supremest glory of his work in those memorable words, — "I have witnessed since my sickness just what I have...— harmony and good feeling between the sections." Visited with excruciating pain, mental and physical, his suffering and his patience wrung the tears... | |
 | James Penny Boyd - 1885 - 752 pagina’s
...whose sword • was the first he had won and said : ' I have witnessed since my sickness just what I wished to see ever since the war — harmony and good feeling between the sections." On holy Easter he sent forth this tender message : ' I desire the goodwill of all, whether hitherto... | |
 | James Penny Boyd - 1885 - 752 pagina’s
...of paper on which Grant had written the following: " I have witnessed since my sickness just what I wished to see ever since the war — harmony and good feeling between the sections. I have always contended that if there had been nobody left but the soldiers we would have had peace... | |
 | 1885 - 108 pagina’s
...Confederate General captured by General Grant, visited him by appointment. He wrote to General Buckner: "I have witnessed since my sickness just what I have wished to see since the war—harmony and good feeling between the sections. I have always contended that if there... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - 1886 - 384 pagina’s
...to the re-united nation, and he was able to say : " I have witnessed, since my sickness, just what I wished to see ever since the war — harmony and good feeling between the sections." And again: " I am thankful for the providential extension of my time, because it has enabled me to see... | |
 | James Harrison Kennedy - 1888 - 694 pagina’s
...him whose sword was the first he had won, and said: ' I have witnessed since my sickness just what I wished to see ever since the war — harmony and good feeling between the sections.' On holy Easter he sent forth this tender message : ' I desire the good will of all, whether hitherto... | |
 | Benjamin Perley Poore, O. H. Tiffany - 1885 - 792 pagina’s
...and sympathy and prayer, so that he said to General Buckner, who had surrendered to him at Donelson : "I have witnessed since my sickness just what I have...— harmony and good feeling between the sections. I have always contended that if there were nobody left but the soldiers we should have peace within... | |
 | Society of the Army of the Tennessee - 1893 - 672 pagina’s
...his voice, is the fact of to-day that no man wishes to do it. On his death-bed General Grant wrote: " I have witnessed since my sickness just what I have...— harmony and good feeling between the sections." The prophecy of Mr. Lincoln's first inaugural address is coming true: "The mystic chords of memory,... | |
 | 1897 - 614 pagina’s
...former adversary. This is reproduced in fac-simile for the first time. The message was as follows: "I have witnessed since my sickness just what I have...war; harmony and good feeling between the sections. I have always contended that if there had been nobody left but the soldiers we would have had peace... | |
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I have witnessed since my sickness just what I have wished to see ever since the war; harmony and good feeling between the sections. 
