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The orders and counter-orders, the marches and counter-marches of August 28, and the consequent dispersion of the Federal army, are sufficient in themselves to prove the deep insight into war possessed by the Confederate leaders. Nevertheless, the risk bred of separation which, in order to achieve great results, they had deliberately accepted had not yet passed away.
These pests were in great numbers, and proved a sad annoyance, lighting upon us in every direction, and inflicting very irritating wounds even through clothes of considerable thickness. February 28.
You may well observe that you feel severed from the human race. She was the last tie that bound us to the species. What have we left? In surviving the 30th of June I thought I could meet all other afflictions with ease, yet I have staggered under this in a manner that I am glad had not a witness. Your letter of January 28 was not received till February 9.
The Pines, which has been particularly spoken of by Captain Cook, and by others, who have lately visited this island, is the most conspicuous of any tree here; they grow to a prodigious size, and are proportionably tall, being from 150 to 200 feet, and in circumference from 12 to 14 feet, some to 28 and 30 feet.
Importance of the Position. The Configuration of Ground. Traces of Battle. Round Hill. General Meade's Head-Quarters. Appearance of the Dead. Through the Forests along the Line. Retreat and Pursuit of Lee. While in St. Louis, late in June, 1863, I received the following telegram: "HERALD OFFICE, "NEW YORK, June 28. "Report at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, at the earliest possible moment."
Of the 28 officers and men, including members of the Admiralty Board who were conducting the official trials, all but one were killed outright, and the solitary exception was so terribly burned as to survive the fall for only a few hours.
Hence the crust is not likely more than 28 miles thick, in many places less. Rev. O. Fisher has calculated that, if the thickness of the earth's crust is 17.5 mi., as indicated by the San Francisco earthquake, the earth is 5,262,170 years old. If the crust is 21.91 mi. thick, as others say, the age would be 8,248,380 years.
Gratian, Dist., 27, c. 4 et 9, and Dist., 28, c. 12 Friedberg, i, pp. 99 and 104. Id., Causa, 27, Quaest. 1, c. 1 and 7 Friedberg, i, pp. 1047 and 1O50. Gratian, Causa, 20, Quaest. 2, c. 2 Friedberg, i, pp. 847-848. Cf.
Considerations, however, of a nature which you will more readily approve, have had an influence in detaining me. A decision is hoped this day on the points now under discussion. I take my leave as soon as this business is disposed of, and will be with you in the course of mail-stage. New-York, March 28, 1804
In it he fought four actions: at Belmont, November 23; at Graspan on the 25th; at Modder River on the 28th; and finally at Magersfontein, December 11. These places are distant from Orange River, approximately, 18, 28, and 45 miles; Magersfontein being some three miles beyond the Modder.
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