The Anniversary Address Delivered Before the Third Army Corps Union, 5th May, 1875: The Glorious old Fighting Third Corps, as we Understand It - Couverture rigide

De Peyster, J Watts 1821-1907

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ISBN 10 : 1355073731 ISBN 13 : 9781355073734

Editeur : Palala Press, 2016

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The voice ot history and the thunder-tones of truth and justice can and will eventually make themselves heard in regard to the pre-eminence or prominence of the Old Third. Whether as an independent Corps, or as a Corps melted down into a Division, but still wearing the Diamond, its distinctive Corps badge, (white within red) the Eed (the Kearny) Patch, the original, or precursor of all badges the Old Third constituted the steel lance-head of the Army of the Potomac, or of the Second Corps, after it was unjustly incorporated with an organization its superior in nothing but political or ofi Scial influence. Wherever it was put in, the Third Corps was the lance-blade when it led off the advance, and the iron spike which shod the shaft when it was entrusted with the rear-guard an iron shoe or shaft as deadly to the enemy as the hinder end of Abner sspear to A sahel. Nor does the force of this simile end here. Even as the just and justified slaying of Joab swilful brother eventuated in the assassination of Abner by the ruthless survivor, even so the Third Corps, being hated for its straightforward independence, its force of opinion and its thoroughness of service, as well as of fighting, became the victim of those who had the power of life and death over it as an organization, in as great a degree as the selfish and remorseless son of Zeruiah over his noble rival in the affections of the army and the nation. It is a very remarkable fact in modern military history that since the definite division of armies into corps, the Third Corps has been in every case the fighting corps of the army to which it belonged. As demonstrations of this, study out the achievements of the Third Corps under Davoust and Ney in the Napoleonic wars; of Sackens Third Corps in Blucher sarmy of Silesia, which did most towards over-throwing the French Emperor in 1813-15; and A lvensleben s Th
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palala Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1355073731
• ISBN 13: 9781355073734
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 40
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