 | J. T. Headley - 1860 - 558 pages
...to honorable pursuits, and stained with no action that can give me remorse, I trust that the request I make to your excellency at this serious period,...soften my last moments, will not be rejected. Sympathy toward a soldier will surely induce your excellency and a military tribunal to adapt the mode of my... | |
 | John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne - Cuba - 1860 - 406 pages
...purposes, and stained with no action that can give me remorse, I trust that the request which I make your excellency at this serious period, and which...soften my last moments, will not be rejected. Sympathy toward a soldier will certainly induce your excellency and a military tribunal to adapt the mode of... | |
 | Winthrop Sargent - United States - 1861 - 508 pages
...to honorable pursuits and stained with no action that can give me remorse, I trust that the request I make to your Excellency, at this serious period,...Sympathy towards a soldier will surely induce your Ex• cellency and a military tribunal to adapt the mode of my death to the feelings of a man of honor.... | |
 | John Frederick Smith - Great Britain - 1861 - 650 pages
...HIMSELF. honourable pursuits, and stained with no action that can give me remorse, I trust the request I make to your excellency at this serious period, and which is to soften my last ; aoments, will not be rejected. Sympathy towards a soldier ' Tfll snrely induce your excellency and... | |
 | John Frederick Smith - Great Britain - 1861 - 644 pages
...HIMSKLF. honourable pursuits, and stained with no action that can give me remorse, I trust the request I make to your excellency at this serious period, and which is to soften my It^t moments, will not be rejected. Sympathy towards a soldier will surely induce your excellency and... | |
 | Taliaferro Preston Shaffner - 1863 - 862 pages
...honourable pursuits, and stained with no action that can give me remorse, I trust that the request I make to your excellency at this serious period,...will surely induce your excellency and a military tribunal to adapt the mode of niy death to the feelings of a man of honour. " Let me hope, sir, that... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1864 - 624 pages
...honourable pursuits, and stained with no action that can give me remorse, I trust that the request I make to your excellency, at this serious period,...a soldier, will surely induce your excellency, and » military tribunal, to adapt the mode of my death to the feelings of a man of honour. spiracy, and... | |
 | Christopher James Riethmüller - 1864 - 504 pages
...Washington : — " Sympathy towards a soldier will surely induce your Excellency and a military tribunal, to adapt the mode of my death to the feelings of a man of honour. Let me hope, sir, that if aught in my character impresses you with esteem towards me — if... | |
 | Christopher James Riethmüller - 1864 - 480 pages
...his feelings; and it was with this view that he addressed the following appeal to Washington :— " Sympathy towards a soldier will surely induce your Excellency and a military tribunal, to adapt the mode of my death to the feelings of a man of honour. Let me hope, sir, that... | |
 | Edward Carlisle Boynton - History - 1864 - 454 pages
...rejected. Sympathy towards a foldier will furely induce your Excellency and a military tribunal to adopt the mode of my death to the feelings of a man of honour. Let me hope, Sir, that if ought in my character imprefles you with efteem towards me, if ought... | |
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Buoyed above the terror of death by the consciousness of a life devoted to honorable pursuits, and stained with no action that can give me remorse, I trust that the request I make to your Excellency at this serious period, and which is to soften my last... 
