Excerpt from The Confederate Veteran: Address of Gen. E. P. Alexander on Alumni Day, West Point Centennial, June 9, 1902 And sullenly 'twixt us and them Flows by Potomac's river.' The Confederate veteran! With these words does there not arise in every mind the thought of a meteoric army, which over forty years ago sprang into existence, as it would seem, out of space and nothingness, and after a career of four years, unsus tained by treasury or arsenal, but unsurpassed for brilliant fighting and lavish outpour of blood, ...
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Excerpt from The Confederate Veteran: Address of Gen. E. P. Alexander on Alumni Day, West Point Centennial, June 9, 1902 And sullenly 'twixt us and them Flows by Potomac's river.' The Confederate veteran! With these words does there not arise in every mind the thought of a meteoric army, which over forty years ago sprang into existence, as it would seem, out of space and nothingness, and after a career of four years, unsus tained by treasury or arsenal, but unsurpassed for brilliant fighting and lavish outpour of blood, van ished from earth as utterly as if it had been a phan tom of imagination. It had followed as a banner, a Starry Cross, born in the fire and smoke of its battle line; which had own over its charging columns on many fields, and under many leaders, whose names proud history will forever cherish, and then in a night it also had taken its ight from earth, to be seen no more of men. A Federal historian wrote ofthis army: 'who can forget it that once looked upon it? That array of tattered uniforms and bright muskets - that body of incomparable infantry, the Army of Northern Virginia - which for four years carried the revolt on its bayonets, opposing a constant front to the mighty concentrations of power brought against it, which, receiving terrible blows, did not fail to give the like, and which, vital in all its parts, died only with its annihilation.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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