A soldier of the Cumberland: memoir of Mead Holmes, jr., by his father [M. Holmes].American Tract Society, 1854 - 210 pages |
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... young hero , with all his longings to be useful , was unassuming and retiring , specially averse to publicity , —I can - not restrain the conviction that , on this anniver- sary of his death , and also of Sumter's fall , a me- morial of ...
... young hero , with all his longings to be useful , was unassuming and retiring , specially averse to publicity , —I can - not restrain the conviction that , on this anniver- sary of his death , and also of Sumter's fall , a me- morial of ...
Page vii
... young Christian soldier of the Army of the Cumberland , is one that needs no extrane- ous help in winning its way to favor . I pity the man who can read it with dry eyes , or who rises from its perusal without a higher estimate of what ...
... young Christian soldier of the Army of the Cumberland , is one that needs no extrane- ous help in winning its way to favor . I pity the man who can read it with dry eyes , or who rises from its perusal without a higher estimate of what ...
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... young Holmes was fairly entitled to a command , and through his friends he might easily have procured one . But he deliberately preferred entering the ranks ; and the special value of this noble record of his service is , that it gives ...
... young Holmes was fairly entitled to a command , and through his friends he might easily have procured one . But he deliberately preferred entering the ranks ; and the special value of this noble record of his service is , that it gives ...
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... young Christian patriot , MEAD HOLMES , Jr. , Soldier of the noble Army of the Cumberland . Office of The Sunday - School Times , Philadelphia , March , 1864 . JOHN S. HART . CONTENTS . - CHAPTER I. CHILDHOOD .. - Birth Affectionate X ...
... young Christian patriot , MEAD HOLMES , Jr. , Soldier of the noble Army of the Cumberland . Office of The Sunday - School Times , Philadelphia , March , 1864 . JOHN S. HART . CONTENTS . - CHAPTER I. CHILDHOOD .. - Birth Affectionate X ...
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... young mind should not be clouded by gloomy repre- sentations of death and the future state . Hence , during a severe illness , when I remarked in his presence that I feared he would not live long , he said , " Then , father , I shall go ...
... young mind should not be clouded by gloomy repre- sentations of death and the future state . Hence , during a severe illness , when I remarked in his presence that I feared he would not live long , he said , " Then , father , I shall go ...
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