ewick's front at Salem Church, piercing his centre.
As his (Sedgewick's) left and rear had already suffered severely from Gordon's well-planned and well-executed attack his entire force was defeated and put to flight and compelled to cross the Rappahannock after midnight. This splendid echelon movement made by Gordon, which proved so successful, seemed to have come to him by intuition.
He was a born soldier, and did not realize at the time that he was but repeating a movement that Poshua, Hannibal, Charlemagne and other eminent commandants had used ages before.
Of all the brilliant victories achieved by General Gordon this one will be studied and admired by students of military science for coming generations.
Certainly to Lee, Gordon, and all the officers and private soldiers of the Army of Northern Virginia belong glory, honor, and fame, which will go sounding down the ages with increasing splendor and brilliance, and will inspire the youth of coming generations with patriotism, t
This constant retreating was not always necessitated by attacks and defeat at the hands of a superior force of the enemy, but was in obedience to a fixed plan of strategy named from the Roman general, Fabius Maximus, who in his campaigns against Hannibal made it a rule to avoid battle and always to retreat.
Hannibal defeated all the troops he ever met, but Fabius, by eluding battle with the great Carthaginian, succeeded in a campaign that lasted thirteen years in wearing out his enemy, which coHannibal defeated all the troops he ever met, but Fabius, by eluding battle with the great Carthaginian, succeeded in a campaign that lasted thirteen years in wearing out his enemy, which could get no recruits or reinforcements from Carthage across the Mediterranean.
Whether the great Federal armies could have been worn out and eventually ruined by a systematic course of retreat and evasion on the part of the Confederate forces does not appear, as it was not carried out to a conclusion.
They saw their homes given up to the possession of the enemy, with no hope that the country would ever be recovered.
If the South had been abundantly supplied with all the necessaries for both
ber especially the odes which my brother pointed out to me as his favorites.
These were: Maecenas atavis edite regibus; Quis desiderio sit pudor aut modus; O fons Bandusiae; and, above all, Exegi monumentum sere perennius.
With no pretensions to correct scholarship, I yet enjoyed these Latin studies quite intensely.
They were so much in my mind that, when we sat down to our two o'clock dinner, my husband would sometimes ask: Have you got those elephants over the river yet?
alluding to Hannibal and the Punic war.
Prior to these Latin studies, I read a good deal in Swedenborg, and was much fascinated by his theories of spiritual life.
I remember Heaven and Hell, Divine Love and Wisdom, and Conjugal Love as the writings which interested me most; but the cumbrous symbolism of his Bible interpretation finally shut my mind against further entertainment of so fanciful a guest.
Hegel was for some time my study among the German philosophers.
After some severe struggling with his ex
And, what he may, forbears His fame to make it theirs. And has his sword and spoils ungirt, To lay them at the public's skirt; So when the falcon high Falls heavy from the sky, She, having killed, no more does search, But on the next green bough to perch, Where, when he first does lure, The falconer has her sure. What may not, then, our isle presume, While Victory his crest does plume? What may not others fear, If thus he crowns each year? As Caesar, he, erelong, to Gaul; To Italy as Hannibal, And to all states not free Shall climacteric be. The Pict no shelter now shall find Within his parti-contoured mind; But from his valor sad Shrink underneath the plaid, Happy if in the tufted brake The English hunter him mistake, Nor lay his hands a near The Caledonian deer. But thou, the war's and fortune's son, March indefatigably on; And, for the last effect, Still keep the sword erect. Besides the force, it has to fright The spirits of the shady night: The same arts that did gain
t of the State, lying along the left bank of the Missouri, is less extensive, and could give him no serious uneasiness.
Although the secessionists were there in large numbers and the partisan war was raging with all its horrors, it was too remote from the Confederate States to receive any efficient support, and the Federals felt sure of being able to sustain themselves there so long as they retained possession of St. Louis.
The principal artery of that region is the railway which connects Hannibal, on the Mississippi, with St. Joseph, on the Missouri, where it then terminated in the vicinity of the yet uncultivated lands where the emigrant settled until the progress of civilization compelled him to proceed one stage farther towards the interior.
The southern part of the State is bounded on the south and west by the frontiers of Arkansas and Kansas, on the east by the Mississippi, on the north by the Missouri.
Near the last mentioned river the country is flat, fertile, well cultivat
g directly to revolution, and precipitating civil war with all its sad train of consequences.
2. Resolved. That the people of Minnesota reiterate their unalterable devotion to the Constitution of the United States, and that if its provisions are strictly observed, it will, in its own words, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.
3. Resolved, That Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin, having been constitutionally and legally elected President and Vice President of the United States, at a general election, fully and freely participated in, on the same day, by the people of every State of the Union, South as well as North, that any attempt to dissolve or destroy the Union, on account thereof, in without excuse or justification, and should receive the condemnation of every patriot in the land.
4. Resolved. That we have heard with astonishment and indignation (!
Niemen.
The problem now to be solved, was a march upon Moscow, from Smolensko.
The distance is only three hundred miles. Up to Smolensko the country was all on Napoleon's side, and he procured horses, men and provisions, without any difficulty.
Was this a very rash enterprise, even supposing the intermediate space to have been a desert?
If it was, we shall take occasion hereafter to show the world has misjudged all those whom it has considered its greatest Generals — such as Alexander, Hannibal, Julius Caesar, Gustavus Adolphus, Marshal Turenne, &c.; for every one of these Generals gained their laurels by expeditions far more unpromising.
From Smolensko Napoleon marched upon Moscow, at the head of 160,000 men. The Russians continually retired before him until they reached Borodino.
At four intermediate points between Smolensko and Borodino he left strong detachments, amounting, in the aggregate, to 40,000 men. At all these points magazines and hospitals were established and
the art of war would be gathered.
They are the eight campaigns of Alexander, the seventeen of Hannibal, the thirteen of Julius CÆsar in ancient times, the three of Gustavus Adolphus, the eighteen ofh regard to the Russian campaign, that it was an impossible enterprise?
Let us now come to Hannibal. In the year 218 before Christ, he left Spain, passed the Pyrennees, crossed the Rhone and the
Think of that, when we are told about the losses Napoleon sustained before he entered Moscow.
Hannibal spent five months in this march, which was a march of 1200 miles, leaving no garrisons in his rsince all the Greek towns in lower Italy opened their gates, and Capua itself surrendered.
Now Hannibal did precisely what Napoleon did in all his campaigns.
He kept his troops together.
He had oneoman Colonies, or at Cannæ, three hundred miles from, Cis-Alpine Gaul, with all the country ready to rise on his rear, what would not such military critics as condemn Napoleon have said of Hannibal?
oring to show that if the Russian campaign of 1812 was a rash under taking, then all the great military operations, of which we read in the biographies of the most renowned Generals were so. We have already noticed the campaigns of Alexander and Hannibal. Let us now notice those of Julius Caesar.
Caesar commenced his military career at a more advanced period of life than either of the a forenamed Generals.
Alexander was but twenty-two when he invaded Asia; Hannibal but twenty-seven where.
Hannibal but twenty-seven where.
he invaded Italy.
But Caesar, somehow or other, had a bad name among those who bestowed honors at Rome, Sylla had said of him, when a boy, or was reported to have said of him, which was just as bad, " There is many a Marciss in that boy " Give a dog a bad name, and it is as well to hang him, Caesar seems to have been suspected, at a very early period of his life, of a design to overthrow the liberties-- such as they were — of his country ; and, consequently, every effort was made by the aristo
and it will be left for some other President — if one can be elected who will do it — to carry on the suicidal work of subjugating a free people.
Napoleon declared that "no nation attached to its institutions and its form of government can ever be conquered." His own invasion of Russia, and his Peninsular wars in Spain, had severely impressed this lesson upon his mind.
The Spanish Armada of Philip II, gives a strong hint in the same way. The Peloponnesian civil war of thirty years, or of Hannibal's sixteen years invasion of Italy, might, one would think, teach our madmen something, if they would sit still long enough to think about it. Then, there is the Spanish invasion of the Netherlands, which gives a lesson, too. All history is full enough of lessons, if men would only get their senses long enough to think about them.
Ask England what her experience was in "conquering" the few poor and scattered colonists on this continent, and she will tell you that those few men who stood up
