To obviate this difficulty prudence required that the road which we had formed on landing should be continued to the very margin of the lake; whilst appearances seemed to indicate the total impracticability of the scheme.
"The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815"
G. R. Gleig
President Lincoln thereupon issued a call for seventy-five thousand men to uphold and vindicate the authority of the Government, and to prove, if possible, that secession was not only a heresy in doctrine, but an impracticability in the American Republic.
"Three Years in the Federal Cavalry"
Willard Glazier
It was never seriously taken up again, and, though never explicitly abandoned, died a natural death from inanition, somewhat to the relief of Miss Barrett, who had come to recognise its impracticability.
"The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)"
Frederic G. Kenyon