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Title: Sponsor souvenir album : history & reunion (1895)
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: United Confederate Veterans
Subjects: United Confederate Veterans -- Anniversaries, etc United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Anniversaries, etc.
Publisher: (Columbus, Ohio : Terry Engraving Co., 1895.)
Contributing Library: Houston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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ffed the priestly garment and rallied around him the Creole and the Anglo-Saxon, the children of the civil and the common law alike, to be in serried ranksin the very van of liberty; of every Mississippian who followed the lead of thatLee who, in war emulated the highest glories of a name which seems to havealways been associated with what is best and truest in arms, and who survived inpeace to illustrate that the gentleness of woman is always the associate of thebravest heart; of every man who never became restless in the doing of hisheart-work, if only because fighting Joe Wheeler was in the lead and wouldnever stay while the soil of his country was encumbered by a foe; of every manwho ever dozed under a palmetto tree, to be more alert when Hampton rescuedfrom the red field of carnage the white plume of Stuart and kept it always stain-less in his heart and upon his head; of every man of the land of Macon who founda new inspiration in the name of one of the noblest Romans of them all
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SCENES ON = Buffalo g/ww Houston. 48 SPONSOR SOUVENIR ALBUM. that D. H. Hill, upon whose countenance dwelt in comeliest fashion the light andsmile of battle, because the Tar Heel pathway was the road to duty; of everycountryman of him who made Shiloh a tale to be told forever because the ablesttactician, the most princely form, sat upon his horse, in the very forefront ofthe fight, calmly sat with a smile upon his face, dealing triumph to his mentill the last refluence of his hearts blood surged upon his spurs, whose watch,wherever it may be to-day, whether in worthy or unworthy hands, will tell thetime of day only to the highest manhood, the most Christian knight; of everyfollower of him who was and is the hero of the common people, the exampleof the fact that in the Porrests as in courts are to be found the Napoleons with astar, and finally of every comrade of to-day who hangs upon the lips of him whowas the bow of promise to every man in the Southern army who feared thatdanger migh

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