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Battle of Cold Harbour Siege of Petersburg The General intrusts a mission to his son Robert Battle of the Crater Grant crosses the James River General Long's pen-picture of Lee Knitting socks for the soldiers A Christmas dinner Incidents of camp life
Fortunately, many such records are still in existence, and from them some most entertaining personal accounts have been obtained. Among these is an impressive pen-picture of Lincoln on the stump, as admirably sketched by the Rev. Dr. George C. Noyes, of Chicago. "Mr. Lincoln in repose," says Dr. Noyes, "was a very different man in personal appearance from Mr.
These are vortices of vice too fearfully foul for eyes of aught but fiends; the air too putrid for lungs that inhale that of pure and happy homes. We must shun those plague spots, else bear false witness to the world, for any true pen-picture of their hell-born horrors would, like Medusa's awful face, turn all who gazed thereon to stone!
Fortunately for my readers I have received from Sir Edward Sullivan, who was a contemporary of Oscar both at school and college, an exceedingly vivid and interesting pen-picture of the lad, one of those astounding masterpieces of portraiture only to be produced by the plastic sympathies of boyhood and the intimate intercourse of years lived in common.
He practised a military exactness in all the courtesies of society.... His brow was fair and expansive; his eyes blue-gray, large, and expressive; his nose Roman and well-chiselled, his cheeks were ruddy and sunburned; his mouth, firm and full of meaning; his beard was brown" is a pen-picture drawn by a brother officer.
Fortunately for my readers I have received from Sir Edward Sullivan, who was a contemporary of Oscar both at school and college, an exceedingly vivid and interesting pen-picture of the lad, one of those astounding masterpieces of portraiture only to be produced by the plastic sympathies of boyhood and the intimate intercourse of years lived in common.
The following graphic pen-picture will give the reader an accurate idea of the picturesque scene of the disaster: Away up in the misty crags of the Alleghanies some tiny rills trickle and gurgle from a cleft in the mossy rocks. The drippling waters, timid perhaps in the bleak and lonely fastness of the heights, hug and coddle one another until they flash into a limpid pool.
The Great Lincoln-Douglas Debate Rivals for the U.S. Senate Lincoln's "House-Divided-against-Itself" Speech An Inspired Oration Alarming His Friends Challenges Douglas to a Joint Discussion The Champions Contrasted Their Opinions of Each Other Lincoln and Douglas on the Stump Slavery the Leading Issue Scenes and Anecdotes of the Great Debate Pen-Picture of Lincoln on the Stump Humors of the Campaign Some Sharp Rejoinders Words of Soberness Close of the Conflict.
Insull supplements this pen-picture by another, bearing upon the hustle and bustle of the moment: "After a short conversation Johnson hurried me off to meet his family, and later in the evening, about eight o'clock, he and I returned to Edison's office; and I found myself launched without further ceremony into Edison's business affairs.
I take from General Long a pen-picture of him at this time, which accords with my own recollection of his appearance: "...General Lee continued in excellent health and bore his many cares with his usual equanimity. He had aged somewhat in appearance since the beginning of the war, but had rather gained than lost in physical vigour, from the severe life he had led.
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