History of the Civil War, 1861-1865Macmillan, 1917 - 454 páginas |
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Adams April artillery attack authority battle BATTLE OF CHANCELLORSVILLE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG Beauregard blockade brigade Bull Run Cabinet campaign capture Chancellorsville Charleston Chase Chattanooga Civil command Confederate confidence Congress corps cotton Davis defeat despatch Donelson enemy England Farragut Federal fight fire force Fort Donelson Fort Monroe Fort Sumter Frémont gave Gettysburg governor Grant Halleck Hooker J. H. Wilson Jackson Jefferson Davis Johnston July June Lee's Lincoln Longstreet Mason and Slidell McClellan Meade ment Merrimac miles military movement Navy North Northern officers opinion Pickett's Potomac President proclamation railroad reënforcements retreat Richmond river road Russell Schurz Secretary Secretary of War senators sent sentiment Seward Sherman slavery slaves soldiers South Southern Confederacy Stanton success Sumter supplies surrender T. L. Livermore telegraphed Tennessee thought tion Union Army United Vicksburg VICKSBURG CAMPAIGN victory Virginia Washington Welles's Diary wrote York
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Página 174 - ... 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 86 - Fort Henry, on the Tennessee River, and Fort Donelson, on the Cumberland River.
Página 16 - I deem it proper to say that the first service assigned to the forces hereby called forth will probably be to repossess the forts, places, and property which have been seized from the Union...
Página 413 - No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize, or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.
Página 434 - Then there is nothing left me but to go and see General Grant, and I would rather die a thousand deaths.
Página 153 - while I approve the measure, I suggest, sir, that you postpone its issue until you can give it to the country supported by military success, instead of issuing it, as would be the case now, upon the greatest disasters of the war.
Página 3 - But this momentous question, like a fire-bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union.
Página 197 - 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 91 - SIR :—Yours of this date, proposing armistice and appointment of Commissioners to settle terms of capitulation, is just received. No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
Página 154 - 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.