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SIR: I have respectfully to request that you will surrender the city of Memphis to the authority of the United States, which I have the honor to represent. I am, Mr. Mayor, with high respect, your most obedient servant, C. H. DAVIS, Flag-Officer Commanding. To his Honor, the Mayor of Memphis. To this note the following reply was received: MAYOR'S OFFICE, MEMPHIS, June 6, 1862.
He announced that his command would devolve on General Grant, who had been summoned around from Memphis to Corinth by way of Columbus, Kentucky, and that I was to go into Memphis to take command of the District of West Tennessee, vacated by General Grant.
"The end of it is that I must go away, away from Memphis away from this miserable world for all I care! I? Recover my peace of mind within reach of her? Alas, for my blissful, lost peace!" "And why not? To every man a thing is only as he conceives of it.
The bands to which the woman belonged were forced by the cavalry into the palaestra and the neighbouring Maander, and kept there until Eumedes brought re-enforcements and compelled the Gauls to surrender. The King sent from Memphis the order to take the vanquished men to the tongue of land where they now were, and could easily be imprisoned between the sea and the Sebennytic inland lake.
In the west, where the sun went down behind the Libyan mountains, where the fruitful land ended and the desert began there the people of Memphis had buried their dead; and as our gay party looked towards the west they felt awed into a solemn silence.
De Loche called on me in Memphis to apologize for his apparent incivility in not insisting on my staying for dinner. He said that his wife accused him of marked discourtesy, but that, after the call of his neighbor, he had felt restless until I got away.
"That is because you know so little of America," is a phrase I have listened to a thousand times, and in nearly as many different places. It may be so and having made this concession, I protest against the charge of injustice in relating what I have seen. Company on board the Steam Boat Scenery of the Mississippi Crocodiles Arrival at Memphis Nashoba
Hadrian opened the leather bag, took out a roll, hastily broke it open, and then, after rapidly glancing at the contents, exclaimed: "What is this? I have opened the record of the oracle of Apis. How did it come among to-day's letters?" Antinous went up to Hadrian, looked at the sack, and said: "Mastor has made a mistake. These are the documents from Memphis.
The taskmaster may tell us somewhat of this blaspheming sculptor-giant." When the last sound of the departing men died away, Mentu turned across the hill toward the Nile-front of the cliff. "Nay, I will go back to Memphis first," he said grimly. "Mayhap Kenkenes hath returned.
He did not care about the delay, more particularly as he wished to consult an Egyptian physician with regard to an old standing complaint he suffered from, and there was no more skilful or learned leech in the whole land, the Egyptian guide assured him, than the famous Philip of Memphis.
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