Memoir of Major Samuel Ringgold, United States Army (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Memoir of Major Samuel Ringgold, United States Army Mr. President and Gentlemen: It becomes my melancholy, yet pleasing duty, this evening, to revive in your recollection a few of the striking characteristics and generous actions of one who, during life, devoted himself to the service of his country, and finally yielded up that life as a votive offering at her shrine. In the performance of this duty, I am not actuated by an exalted opinion of military glory or renown; norby a desire either to flatter or speak condolence to surviving relatives; these are worthy and creditable motives; but mine, on the present occasion, is a still higher one, and aims, by portraying a life full of usefulness and national devotion, so far as my feeble powers will permit, to inculcate the positive necessity for self sacrifice, when the government under which we live requires so much at the hands of either of its citizens. In the examination of history we too frequently overlook the component parts of a nation. We behold it in its great achievements in its display of power or weaknes.s in its advance or decline. The great actions which accomplish the one, or produce the other, stand before us in such bold relief that we lose sight of the less obtrusive, yet not less important agents, on which these great events actually depend. We look at nations in the aggregate, and not as a combination of individuals, like ourselves, and therefore fail to derive many of those salutary lessons which it is the province of iiistory to impart. 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.
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