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The Daily Dispatch: February 22, 1865., [Electronic resource], Spirit of our soldiers. (search)
; R. J. Smith, company I; H. M. Walthall, company D, and E. F. Davidson, company H, were appointed. the committee retired for a few minutes, and returned and offered the following preamble and resolutions, which were unanimously adopted by the regiment: "Whereas, it is eminently proper, in time of public peril and despondency, that men should meet together to council, resolve and act; be it therefore 1. "Resolved, That to the humiliating propositions for peace made by President Lincoln to our companions, we enter our indignant protest: that while we would be rejoiced to stop the effusion of blood and the desolation of our country, we will assent to no terms short of independence and separate nationality. 2. "Resolved, That inasmuch as we have tendered the olive branch to our foes, which they have trampled in the dust, no alternative is left us but to defend our homes, our property and lives as long as the foot of the vandal pollutes the soil of the South. 3.