 | Whitelaw Reid - 1866 - 624 pagine
...and ho was fairly convinced that he had taken the most gallant and manly course in the world. Very pretty it was, nevertheless, if one could only forget...cutting the buttons from the uniform of an elegant gray-headed old Brigadier, who had just come in from Johnston's army ; but he bore himself modestly... | |
 | Walter Lynwood Fleming - 1906 - 532 pagine
...They seem to fancy it. Confederate Uniforms Forbidden Wlhitelaw Reid, After the War, p. 156. [1865] INDEED, nothing was more touching, in all that I saw...cutting the buttons from the uniform of an elegant gray-headed old Brigadier, who had just come in from Johnston's army; but he bore himself modestly... | |
 | 1919 - 564 pagine
...caused by officious enlisted men and the negro troops. Whitelaw Reid relates the following incident: Nothing was more touching, in all that I saw in Savannah,...the hotel, where a drunken sergeant, with a pair of tailor's shears, insisted on cutting the buttons from the uniform of an elegant gray-headed old brigadier,... | |
 | Walter Lynwood Fleming - 1919 - 364 pagine
...caused by officious .enlisted men and the negro troops. Whitelaw Reid relates the following incident: Nothing was more touching, in all that I saw in Savannah,...the hotel, where a drunken sergeant, with a pair of tailor's shears, insisted on cutting the buttons from the uniform of an elegant gray-headed old brigadier,... | |
 | Allen Johnson - 1919 - 346 pagine
...caused by officious enlisted men and the negro troops. Whitelaw Reid relates the following incident: Nothing was more touching, in all that I saw in Savannah,...the hotel, where a drunken sergeant, with a pair of tailor's shears, insisted on cutting the buttons from the uniform of an elegant gray-headed old brigadier,... | |
 | Walter Lynwood Fleming - 1919 - 364 pagine
...Whitelaw Reid relates the following incident: Nothing was more touching, in all that I saw in Sa. vannah, than the almost painful effort of the rebels, from...the hotel, where a drunken sergeant, with a pair of tailor's shears, insisted on cutting the buttons from the uniform of an elegant gray-headed old brigadier,... | |
 | Willard Thorp - 1955 - 990 pagine
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 | Eric L. McKitrick - 1988 - 550 pagine
...simply to emphasize the recalcitrance of Southern society at large. "Indeed," wrote Whitelaw Reid, "nothing was more touching, in all that I saw in Savannah,...themselves so as to evince respect for our soldiers. . . ." After the War: A Southern Tour (London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, 1866), p. 156. Sidney Andrews... | |
 | Nina Silber - 1997 - 276 pagine
...although tragic, willingness to accept his loss. "Nothing was more touching," remarked Whitelaw Reid, "in all that I saw in Savannah, than the almost painful effort of the rebels ... to conduct themselves so as to evince respect for our soldiers." Even Robert E. Lee, by the time... | |
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Indeed, nothing was more touching, in all that I saw in Savannah, than the almost painful effort of the rebels, from Generals down to privates, to conduct themselves so as to evince respect for our soldiers, and to bring no severer punishment upon the... 