"Towards four o'clock, the rebels felt strong enough……" — Henry Villard
"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 on the flank and rear and throw it into utter confusion, which spread rapidly along the whole front. Now came the disastrous end."
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Henry Villard
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11 Quotes by Henry Villard
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He surprised me by his familiarity with details of movements and battles which I did not suppose had come to…
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I had not got over the prejudice against Lincoln with which my personal contact with him in 1858 imbued me.
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No one felt it more than the President. I saw him repeatedly, and he fairly groaned at the inexplicable delay…
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Without any formal orders to retreat, what was left of the several organizations yielded to a general impulse to abandon…
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I therefore shared fully the intense chagrin of the New York and other State delegations when, on the third ballot,…
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Senator Douglas was very small, not over four and a half feet height, and there was a noticeable disproportion between…
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The curious defiled past him, after squeezing the Presidential fingers into the room, and settled either on the sofa or…
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He appeared every night, like myself, at about nine o'clock, in the office of Mr. Tyler, to learn the news…
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There was nothing in all Douglas's powerful effort that appealed to the higher instincts of human nature, while Lincoln always…
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