 | Clement Anselm Evans - Confederate States of America - 1899 - 764 pages
...well from the early Peninsula days f to the surrender of that small remnant at Appomattox. It seemed always ready, active, mobile ; without doubt it was...bitter invader; and they took the places assigned them, officer or private, and fought until beaten by superiority of numbers. The North sent no such... | |
 | Southern Historical Society - Confederate States of America - 1899 - 814 pages
...well from the early Peninsula days to the surrender of that small remnant at Appomattox. It seemed always ready, active, mobile; without doubt it was...men of the South rushing to what they considered the defence of their country against a bitter invader, and they took the places assigned them, officer... | |
 | United Confederate Veterans. Missouri Division - United States - 1901 - 116 pages
...well from the early Peninsula days to the surrender of that small remnant at Appomattox. It seemed always ready, active, mobile; without doubt it was...places assigned to them, officer or private, and fought together until beaten by superiority of numbers." And what he said of that army was. true also of every... | |
 | John Brown Gordon - Biography & Autobiography - 1903 - 518 pages
...Without doubt, it was composed of the best men of the South, rushing to what they considered the defence of their country against a bitter invader ; and they took the places assigned them, officer or private, and fought until beaten by superiority of numbers. The North sent no such... | |
 | John Shelton Patton - 1906 - 406 pages
...field," wrote a Federal officer9 thirty years after the war. "It seemed always ready, active, resolute. Without doubt it was composed of the best men of the...and fought until beaten by superiority of numbers." ' For the services of Virginia alumni in the civil and military arms of the Confederacy, and a list... | |
 | Ulysses Robert Brooks - South Carolina - 1909 - 620 pages
...well from the early Peninsula days to the surrender of that small remnant at Appomattox. It seemed always ready, active, mobile. Without doubt, it was...bitter invader, and they took the places assigned, officer or private, and fought until beaten by superiority of numbers. The North sent no such army... | |
 | Cornelius Irvine Walker - 1917 - 298 pages
...well from the early Peninsula days to the surrender of that small remnant at Appomattox. It seemed always ready, active, mobile; without doubt it was...of the South, rushing to what they considered the defence of their country against a bitter invader; and they took the places assigned them, officer... | |
 | Fannie Eoline Selph - Confederate States of America - 1928 - 418 pages
...its opponents, it fought well from the early Peninsula days to the surrender at Appomattox. It seemed always ready, active, mobile; without doubt it was...bitter invader, and they took the places assigned them, officer or private, and fought until overpowered by superior numbers. The North sent no such... | |
 | Clement A. Evans - History - 2004 - 736 pages
...well from the early Peninsula days to the surrender of that small remnant at Appomattox. It seemed always ready, active, mobile ; without doubt it was...bitter invader ; and they took the places assigned them, officer or private, and fought until beaten by superiority of numbers. The North sent no such... | |
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The army of Northern Virginia will deservedly rank as the best army which has existed on this continent ; suffering privations unknown to its opponents, it fought well from the early Peninsula days to the surrender of that small remnant at Appomattox.... 