The Cumberland sank with her flags flying and her guns firing while her decks were awash.
What must impress especially any observer is how essential it is that every individual on a ship like this should do his whole duty, and in ...
Then Joe is dead.
The result as I see it in this ship is a triumph not only of organization and discipline, but of the ready zeal with which each individual p...
Let each of you officers remember, in the event of war, that while a surrender may sometimes be justifiable, yet that surrender must always ...
Any man in the whole ship's company who does his full duty can claim as his own the honor and repute of the ship and has a right to feel a p...
At any time some emergency may arise in which the safety of the entire ship will depend upon the vigilance, intelligence, and cool courage o...
The man who died this morning was an excellent seaman, who had done his duty faithfully, and who died in the performance of that duty.
The discipline, the ready subordination of each man, whether officer or enlisted man, to duty, the care taken of the men and in return the e...
It is a privilege for any President to come aboard a squadron of American warships such as these.
In my judgment it should do not only more, but very much more.
No President of the United States could have been greeted as I have been greeted today and not go back to take up the duties of his office w...
I don't say anything unless I mean it.
As I said at Richmond, second only to the man who wore the blue, I hold the man who wore the gray.
Now we know but one rivalry—the rivalry to see which of us can do the most for the flag of a united country.
I thank you not only for the words which accompany it, but for the spirit which lies behind the words.
All I had to do was to be able to show them that any measure was for the country's good and I knew they would stand for it.
Now I am emboldened by your generous kindness and confidence to say that it has been indeed a pleasure to deal with Louisiana's representati...
