Identifier: civilwarnational00thor (find matches)
Title: The Civil War : the national view
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Thorpe, Francis Newton, 1857-1926
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Publisher: Philadelphia : George Barrie & Sons
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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rible war, as the woe due to thoseby whom the offense came, shall we discern therein anydeparture from those divine attributes which the believersIn a living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do wehope—fervently do we pray—that this mighty scourge ofwar may speedily pass away. Yet, If God wills that Itcontinue until all the wealth piled by the bondmans twohundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk,and until every drop drawn with the lash shall be paid byanother drawn by the sword, as was said three thousandyears ago, so still it must be said: The judgments of theLord are true and righteous altogether. With malice towards none; with charity for all; withfirmness In the right, as God gives us to see the right, letus strive on to finish the work we are In; to bind up thenations wounds; to care for him who shall have borne thebattle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all whichmay achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among our-selves, and with all nations.
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^ f/ 2 Dh U C/J bi o £ 55 -1 I-H (U-i < 1 hc .X. o THE FOURTH TEAR OF THE WAR 461 This noble utterance expressed the best thought of theNorth, with deepest interpretation of the Civil War—thecause of the war and the immediate duty of the Americanpeople to bring that war to a speedy end and the Nationto its own. The collapse of the Confederacy was now swiftly ap-proaching. Sherman did not long delay at Savannah, buton February ist started northward with his army, forGoldsborough, North Carolina, which he reached, March23d: a march of fifty days and 425 miles. The army de-stroyed property as on the march through Georgia. Col-umbia, the capital, was burned despite the efforts of ColonelStone, of the Union army, to prevent it: but the place wasfilled with drunken soldiers and negroes. On February i8th,while yet Columbia was burning, the Confederates evac-uated Charleston, first setting fire to the city. As SouthCarolina had led the way in secession and brought on thewar

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