The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'64 : It's Causes, Incidents, and Results : Intended to Exhibit Especially Its Moral and Political Phases : with the Drift and Progress of American Opinion Respecting Human Slavery : from 1776 to the Close of the War for the UnionO.D. Case, 1867 |
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... arrived with instructions from Montgomery to cap- ture and hold as prisoners of war all Federal soldiers and officers remain- ing in Texas . Maj . Sibley , in com- mand at that port , had chartered two small schooners and embarked there ...
... arrived with instructions from Montgomery to cap- ture and hold as prisoners of war all Federal soldiers and officers remain- ing in Texas . Maj . Sibley , in com- mand at that port , had chartered two small schooners and embarked there ...
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... Arrived at the camp , our soldiers were ordered to lay down their arms , and inform- ed , " You are turned over as prison- ers of war . " The subordinate offi- cers disclaimed any responsibility for this disgraceful surrender , laying ...
... Arrived at the camp , our soldiers were ordered to lay down their arms , and inform- ed , " You are turned over as prison- ers of war . " The subordinate offi- cers disclaimed any responsibility for this disgraceful surrender , laying ...
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... arrived " with his gunboats - four iron - clad , and two wooden - and it was determined that he should attempt to silence and carry the water batteries . He did so at 3 P. M. next day , steadily ad- vancing with his iron - clads to ...
... arrived " with his gunboats - four iron - clad , and two wooden - and it was determined that he should attempt to silence and carry the water batteries . He did so at 3 P. M. next day , steadily ad- vancing with his iron - clads to ...
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... arrived a little before daylight from above , Floyd filled them with his soldiers , especially those of his own brigade , and , a little before sunrise , cast off and steamed up the river , leaving the residue to their fate . " Col ...
... arrived a little before daylight from above , Floyd filled them with his soldiers , especially those of his own brigade , and , a little before sunrise , cast off and steamed up the river , leaving the residue to their fate . " Col ...
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... arrived from Donelson , to secure the stores and provisions . In the first wild excitement of the panic , the store ... arrival , which was before that of Gen. Nelson's com- mand . A small squad of the 4th Ohio crossed over into the city ...
... arrived from Donelson , to secure the stores and provisions . In the first wild excitement of the panic , the store ... arrival , which was before that of Gen. Nelson's com- mand . A small squad of the 4th Ohio crossed over into the city ...
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The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States ... Horace Greeley Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States ... Horace Greeley Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
Términos y frases comunes
A. P. Hill abatis advance April arms artillery assailed assault attack Banks battle Bragg bridge Brig.-Gen brigade burned Capt captured cavalry charge Chattanooga command Confederate Corinth corps creek crossed D. H. Hill defenses dispatched division enemy enemy's fell fight fire flank fleet Fort Sumter Fortress Monroe Fredericksburg front Grant gunboats guns Harper's Ferry heavy held Hill Hooker horses infantry intrenchments J. E. B. Stuart Jackson Lee's loss Maj.-Gen March McClellan ment miles military Mississippi morning moved movement nearly negroes night officers Ohio Port Port Hudson position Potomac prisoners pushed railroad reached rear Rebel army Rebel force Rebellion rëenforced regiments repulsed retreat Richmond ridge river road Rosecrans routed says sent Sept shell Sherman shot side sion skirmishers Slavery slaves Smith soldiers soon South Carolina strong surrender Tennessee thence tion troops Union vance Vicksburg Virginia woods
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Página 250 - If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Página 742 - I feel that it is so, and regard it as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility of any further effusion of blood by asking of you the surrender of that portion of the Confederate States army known as the Army of Northern Virginia.
Página 255 - ... of the army and navy of the United States, in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and...
Página 255 - And I further declare and make known that such persons of suitable condition will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service. And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
Página 657 - FOURSCORE and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
Página 657 - But, in a, larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not, consecrate, we can not hallow this ground.. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here; but it can never forget what they did
Página 657 - I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere...
Página 252 - I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America and Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy thereof, do hereby proclaim and declare that hereafter, as heretofore, the war will be prosecuted for the object of practically restoring the constitutional relation between the United States and each of the States and the people thereof in which States that relation is or may be suspended or disturbed.
Página 252 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free...
Página 743 - GENERAL : — I received at a late hour your note of to-day. In mine of yesterday I did not intend to propose the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, but to ask the terms of your proposition. To be frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender of this army, but as the restoration of peace should be the sole object of all, I desired to know whether your proposals would lead to that end. I cannot, therefore, meet you with a view to surrender the Army of Northern Virginia,...