 | Henry Sweetser Burrage - United States - 1868 - 408 pages
...full of pleasure — and it may be one of severe conflict and death to me. Not my will, but thine, 0 God, be done. If it is necessary that I should fall on the battle-field for my country, I am ready. 14 I have no misgivings about, or lack of confidence in, the cause in which I am engaged, and my courage... | |
 | Robert A. Fletcher, Robert B. Fletcher - Funeral rites and ceremonies - 2002 - 156 pages
...write you again, I feel impelled to write a few lines that may fall under your eye when I am no more. I have no misgivings about, or lack of confidence...and my courage does not halt or falter. I know how American civilization now leans upon the triumph of the government, and how great a debt we owe to... | |
 | Andrew M. Kamarck - Business & Economics - 2009 - 233 pages
...in his Civil War television series, that Major Sullivan Ballou, a Union officer, wrote to his wife. I have no misgivings about, or lack of confidence...and my courage does not halt or falter. I know how the triumph of American civilization now leans upon the triumph of the government, and how great a... | |
 | Mark R. Schwen, Dorothy C. Bass - Literary Collections - 2006 - 580 pages
...full of pleasure — and it may be one of severe conflict and death to me. Not my will, but thine O God, be done. If it is necessary that I should fall...know how strongly American Civilization now leans upon the triumph of the Government, and how great a debt we owe to those who went before us through... | |
 | Timothy Rasinski, Lorraine Griffith - Education - 2007 - 176 pages
...again, I feel impelled to write a few lines that may fall under your eye when I shall be no more ... If it is necessary that I should fall on the battlefield...know how strongly American Civilization now leans upon the triumph of the Government, and how great a debt we owe to those who went before us through... | |
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American Civilization now leans upon the triumph of the Government, and how great a debt we owe to those who went before us through the blood and suffering of the Revolution. And I am willing — perfectly willing — to lay down all my joys in this life,... 