Henry Villard Quotes

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• General Sherman looked upon journalists as a nuisance and a danger at headquarters and in the field, and acted toward them accordingly, then as throughout…
• He surprised me by his familiarity with details of movements and battles which I did not suppose had come to his knowledge. As he kept…
• I had not got over the prejudice against Lincoln with which my personal contact with him in 1858 imbued me.
• No one felt it more than the President. I saw him repeatedly, and he fairly groaned at the inexplicable delay in the advent of help…
• Without any formal orders to retreat, what was left of the several organizations yielded to a general impulse to abandon the field. Officers and men…
• I therefore shared fully the intense chagrin of the New York and other State delegations when, on the third ballot, Abraham Lincoln received a larger…
• Senator Douglas was very small, not over four and a half feet height, and there was a noticeable disproportion between the long trunk of his…
• The curious defiled past him, after squeezing the Presidential fingers into the room, and settled either on the sofa or chairs or remained standing for…
• He appeared every night, like myself, at about nine o'clock, in the office of Mr. Tyler, to learn the news brought in the night Associated…
• There was nothing in all Douglas's powerful effort that appealed to the higher instincts of human nature, while Lincoln always touched sympathetic cords. Lincoln's speech…
• Towards four o'clock, the rebels felt strong enough to take the offensive. A brigade with a battery under Earle managed to strike the Federal right…

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