On the record
The yellow journals may continue to howl, but the loyal American people will sustain the soldiers of the Nation in every effort to compel peace that comes within the rules of war.
Source
gutenberg.orgGrenville Dodge: “The yellow journals may continue to howl, but the loyal American people will sustain the soldiers of the Nation in every…”
Editor's note · Context
Dodge defends the actions of American soldiers during the Philippine-American War against criticism from the press and public.
Share
More from Grenville Dodge
Every man was at his post; every man doing a hero's duty.
Colonel Dodge, in order to discover the position of the enemy on his right, directed his firing to cease, when a thousand rebel plush caps and black broad brims popped up into view from the bushes, and, forming, they advanced with great…
Historians and others who have written of the Battle of Atlanta have been misled by being governed in their data by the first dispatches of General Sherman, who was evidently misinformed, as he afterwards corrected his dispatches.
Our men fought like heroes; many fell covered with wounds.
Other voices in this conversation
