 | Henry Lee - Southern States - 1869 - 658 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,...is to soften my last moments, will not be rejected. Nevertheless the army exhibited on its march the highest spirit, with zealous anxiety to reach the... | |
 | Henry Lee, Robert Edward Lee - Southern States - 1869 - 668 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,...and which is to soften my last moments, will not be reiected. Nevertheless the army exhibited on its march the highest spirit, with zealous anxiety to... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1870 - 272 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 my death to the feelings of a man of honour. Let me hope, sir, that if... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1870 - 530 pages
...be rejected. 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 aught... | |
 | Winthrop Sargent - 1871 - 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,...will surely induce your Excellency and a military tribunal to adapt the mode of my death to the feelings of a man of honor. Let me hope, Sir, that if... | |
 | Joachim Hayward Stocqueler - Great Britain - 1871 - 394 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 my death to the feelings of a man of honour. " Let me hope, Sir, that... | |
 | Westminster abbey - 1872 - 156 pages
...purposes, and " stained with no action which can give me remorse, I trust that " the request which I make to your Excellency at this serious " period,...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, "... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1873 - 516 pages
...honorable pursuits, and stained \v,ith no action that can give me remorse, I trust that the request I make to your Excellency at this serious period,...rejected. -Sympathy towards a soldier will surely indun* VOL. IV. 3J your Excellency and a military tribuna.' to adapt the mode of my death to the feelings... | |
 | Henry Peterson - United States - 1873 - 402 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,...is to soften my last moments, will not be rejected. sir, that, if aught in my character impresses you with esteem toward me, if aught in my misfortunes... | |
 | Abby Sage Richardson - United States - 1875 - 622 pages
...terrors of death by the consciousness of a life devoted to honorable pursuits, 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 surelv induce your excellency and a military tribunal, to adapt the mode of... | |
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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... 
