Major-General George H. Thomas

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Major-General George H. Thomas is written by John Watts Depeyster and published by Forgotten Books. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0259791601 (ISBN 10) and 9780259791607 (ISBN 13).

Excerpt from Major-General George H. Thomas: The Annual Address Delivered Before the New York Historical Society, Tuesday Evening, January 5, 1875 All the virtues and general abilities ascribed to the mythical Virginian of a century since, all the virtues and military excellence credited to the idol of Southern worship in the present generation, all these belonged, in reality, in a greater degree to the man whom the masses do not seem to have been able to appreciate, on account of the very simplicity which was his peculiar characteristic. He has no parallel, except Epaminondas, the greatest of the (ancient) Greeks, and Gustavus the foremost man of all this modem world. Like the grand Swede, he was one who was never dismayed, nor puzzled, from early manhood 'till the hour of his death. And why? Because his whole entity, moral, mental, and physical, could be likened to nothing so well as to a cube, a body representing mathematical perfection in the entire equality of all its parts. This figure conveys the thorough solidity, exact poise, nice adjustment and perfect distribution of everv characteristic necessary to complete one of the Godlike men on whom common mortals build their trust. 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.