Ups and Downs of an Army OfficerMcGill & Wallace, Printers and Publishers, 1900 - 784 páginas |
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... Sent to common guard house in full uniform by General Sturgis , president of court - General Scho- field declines to try Colonel Nelson and denounces me in violent terms - Inform a member of court I would not believe him under oath ...
... Sent to common guard house in full uniform by General Sturgis , president of court - General Scho- field declines to try Colonel Nelson and denounces me in violent terms - Inform a member of court I would not believe him under oath ...
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... sent word that he would see me . The guard appeared very much surprised that I should be ad- mitted to the Secretary's presence at that hour of the night . Col. Ward H. Lamon accompanied me to Mr. Seward's room and then retired ...
... sent word that he would see me . The guard appeared very much surprised that I should be ad- mitted to the Secretary's presence at that hour of the night . Col. Ward H. Lamon accompanied me to Mr. Seward's room and then retired ...
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... sent a little note that I had written in lead pencil to Mr. Seward personally , who immediately sent Mr. Webster with the following note to General McDowell : Department of State , Washington , D. C. , June 20 , 1861 . My Dear General ...
... sent a little note that I had written in lead pencil to Mr. Seward personally , who immediately sent Mr. Webster with the following note to General McDowell : Department of State , Washington , D. C. , June 20 , 1861 . My Dear General ...
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... sent me to read . Before receiving these letters I had heard of the outrage without knowing whose property had been taken , and had instituted measures to redress the injury . Your letter gave me to suppose that you had been one of the ...
... sent me to read . Before receiving these letters I had heard of the outrage without knowing whose property had been taken , and had instituted measures to redress the injury . Your letter gave me to suppose that you had been one of the ...
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... sent to Washington by way of Baltimore , where , after a few weeks of careful nursing , I resumed my duties at the State Department . I still continued my speculations after office hours , and soon had realized over $ 5000 in cash . The ...
... sent to Washington by way of Baltimore , where , after a few weeks of careful nursing , I resumed my duties at the State Department . I still continued my speculations after office hours , and soon had realized over $ 5000 in cash . The ...
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Página 577 - seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way 15 under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be
Página 577 - I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Página 577 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy Slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Página 577 - I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views. I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free.
Página 577 - If there be in it any inferences which I may believe to be falsely drawn, I do not, now and here, argue against them. If there be perceptible in it an impatient and dictatorial tone, I waive it in deference to an old friend, whose heart I have always supposed to be right. As to the policy I "seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt.
Página 577 - If there be in it any statements or assumptions of fact which I may know to be erroneous, I do not now and here controvert them. If there be any inferences which I may believe to be falsely drawn, I do not now and here argue against them. If there be perceptible in it an impatient and dictatorial tone, I waive it in deference to an old friend whose heart I have always supposed to be right. As to the policy I "seem to be pursuing...
Página 624 - ... the scene around them. Instead of recognizing the avenues and streets portrayed on the plan of the city, not one was visible, unless we except a road with two buildings on each side of it called the New Jersey Avenue. The Pennsylvania...
Página 624 - There were also two other blocks consisting of two or three dwelling-houses in different directions, and now and then an insulated wooden habitation ; the intervening spaces, and, indeed, the surface of the city generally, being covered with scrub-oak bushes on the higher grounds, and on the marshy soil either trees or some sort of shrubbery.
Página 375 - October 29, 1919. [NOTE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE. — The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.] [PUBLIC — No.
Página 134 - GENERAL: — I have received your letter of this date containing the terms of surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia as proposed by you. As they are substantially the same as those expressed in your letter of the 8th instant, they are accepted. I will proceed to designate the proper officers to carry the stipulations into effect.