Knute Nelson
Knute Nelson
Knute Nelson, also known as Knud Evangerwas a Norwegian-American attorney and politician active in both Wisconsin and Minnesota. A Republican, he served in state and national positions: he was elected to the Wisconsin and Minnesota legislatures, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate from Minnesota, and he served as the 12th Governor of Minnesota. He was the first Scandinavian-born American to be elected to the Senate...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth2 February 1843
CountryUnited States of America
The army now lies inactive and will continue to do so until the start of autumn days; for it is now too hot to do anything in this line of work.
I am glad, yes truly glad, that the Death Angel has passed you by untouched this time, though he has not gone far from you for a victim.
But it is neither cannon nor bayonet that will do the worst damage to this city. No, this place will remember the war against our government just as long as there are inhabitants here.
That death was near, I suppose I believed, but I saw it only as a rest after the day's work.
It is with this as with religion: one usually believes what he has been taught.
We set the town on fire and burned down every house as a warning to other small towns along the river.
Gen. Banks has issued an order for the instruction of Negro children. Schoolhouses are to be built or rented and Teachers hired for this purpose, and the farmers and planters are to pay the Taxes in support of this.
It is in Virginia and Georgia that the war now rages and where it will continue; for at these points - Richmond and Atlanta - the enemy's main strength is concentrated.
I would prefer being in a hard battle; however, I will be satisfied with whatever happens to me in this war, if only the country comes out of this peril safe and to the satisfaction of the finest and best government on earth.
Keeping a promise made before I left you folks, I will now take pen in hand for a little while and tell you about my experience of a soldier's life.
Mess is fairly good. It is like what is found in American hotels except for cake and pie.
You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong.
In the midst of these hard times it is our good health and good sleep that are enjoyable.
What is best and most necessary usually happens.