F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams

Capitolo 71

You/he/she has informed him before, so notoriously cautious and slow it was him to
acts, also when a West youth Stung, that he earned the nickname
of Soon" "Him late from that he is known to this day from his
intimate friends.

As sad it is for us, to-day to contemplate that the safety of
Washington, the capital of this great country would be due to depend
on the temperament of a general. You leave that the historian future face this
subject justice and it elaborates him as it deserves. And it did him/it
withdraws, if he is able, the consequences of the flag of rebel that he/she greets the
rays of the rising sun in that morning victoriously from the dome of
the Capitol.






I CAPITULATE XIV.

AS THE REBELLIOUS GENERAL WERE DEPORTED.





This history would not be complete, my child, without a portrait of
John C. Breckinridge Generale. This accompanied General and general
Soon, in command of a division, and it was extremely useful as a
subordinations, since he knew Washington and all of his/her outskirtses, and
it had many friends in the city which respect and the hospitality that he had
enjoyed. What curious emotions have had to excite its breast when him
it the dome of that building where he is sat as a Senator, and from
its talents and behavior assured the respect and the trust of the
nation, I will leave the reader to imagine. Who but he is able
describes his/her thoughts when he went again to that scene in the Senate
Lodgings, when he raised the voice of prophecy and it prefigured the
traitor's reward? It was a torment in the thought that he was there
him reaping the bitterest bears fruit of that reward?

You never forget, my child, as terrible it is the criminal punishment to which league
betrayal. But I now have to ask to you to reaccompany me to another part of
the field, that we can see what is following there. The attack did
on our defenses from the rebels it was of the weakest kind. Because this
it was, some of our officers could not understand. Evidently it was
uncertain fact of the result, and it forcedly pointed out enough that