John Gilmary Shea
Published: 2018-02-05
Total Pages: 252
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Excerpt from The Fallen Brave: Biographical Memorial of the American Officers Who Have Given Their Lives for the Preservation of the Union While our land was teeming with plenty, busy with the hum of industry, and looking hopefully forward to the glorious future before it, a chasm suddenly yawned in its midst, threatening destruction to our Republic. Curtius-like, many a brave man has plunged in, glad to offer his life, his arms, and his courage, if the sacrifice could close the abyss, and restore union to the land. Rome embalmed in eternal benediction the memory of her Curtius, shall we be less grateful to a Ward, a Lyon, a Baker, an Ellsworth, a Winthrop, a Lowe, a Cameron, a Haggerty, or the other noble officers who have reckoned their lives as naught in the hour of our country's peril? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.