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The Daily Dispatch: April 16, 1864., [Electronic resource] 3 3 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 33. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 3 1 Browse Search
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order 2 2 Browse Search
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army 2 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 2 2 Browse Search
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army 1 1 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 1 1 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2 1 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 1 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: November 26, 1864., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: November 26, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
e thought these skirmishes great battles, and the man who commanded the troops a great general. Those were the days of the pigmies in contrast with the gigantic race of the present day, and the gigantic achievements which they have already accomplished, and by which they are to be still more distinctly marked than they yet have been. Mexico, and its Lillipution combats, are fast fading from the memory of mankind. There is one individual, however, that will never forget them. That is General Winfield (or rather Wingfield) Scott. The memory of this old man, with regard to himself and his exploits (such as they were), is remarkably tenacious. "Oh! oh! you have forgotten Lundy's Lane," said Scott, groaning with affected pain, to Mr. Clay, when, on one occasion, the veteran orator, in a moment of hilarity, clapped him upon the shoulder which had been wounded in that much-be-praised engagement. "I had forgotten it," was the reply. "I had forgotten it, but you never do." Scott can never