THE AMERICAN CONFLICT: A HSTORY OF THE GREAT REBELLION1866 |
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... vance arrested by the President - The Mud March -Rebel Raids in Virginia - Burnside gives place to Hooker - Stoneman's Raid on Lee's rear- Hooker crosses the Rappahannock , and advances to Chancellorsville - His right wing turned and ...
... vance arrested by the President - The Mud March -Rebel Raids in Virginia - Burnside gives place to Hooker - Stoneman's Raid on Lee's rear- Hooker crosses the Rappahannock , and advances to Chancellorsville - His right wing turned and ...
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... vance to the Weldon Railroad - Wilson's and Kautz's expensive Raid to Burkesville - Butler pontoons the James -- Sheridan fights on the Peninsula -- Miles carries an Outpost at Deep Bottom - Burnside's Mine Hancock on our Left , Gregg ...
... vance to the Weldon Railroad - Wilson's and Kautz's expensive Raid to Burkesville - Butler pontoons the James -- Sheridan fights on the Peninsula -- Miles carries an Outpost at Deep Bottom - Burnside's Mine Hancock on our Left , Gregg ...
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... vance in the Autumn of 1861 , was still at Fort Bliss , within the limits of Texas , on the 1st of January , 1862 ; but moved forward , a few days thereafter , with 2,300 men , many of When his advance , 250 strong , them trained to ...
... vance in the Autumn of 1861 , was still at Fort Bliss , within the limits of Texas , on the 1st of January , 1862 ; but moved forward , a few days thereafter , with 2,300 men , many of When his advance , 250 strong , them trained to ...
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... vance , when he found himself antici- pated by Green , at whose command his men , armed mainly with revolv- ers , burst from the wooded cover and leaped over the line of low sand - hills behind which they had lain , and made a desperate ...
... vance , when he found himself antici- pated by Green , at whose command his men , armed mainly with revolv- ers , burst from the wooded cover and leaped over the line of low sand - hills behind which they had lain , and made a desperate ...
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... vance to its support , while Capt . Hayden opened from it a most gall- ing fire . Returning to the center , he directed the 1st Iowa battery , Capt . David , to take position in an open field and commence operations ; and so battery ...
... vance to its support , while Capt . Hayden opened from it a most gall- ing fire . Returning to the center , he directed the 1st Iowa battery , Capt . David , to take position in an open field and commence operations ; and so battery ...
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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 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 mand March McClellan ment miles military Mississippi morning moved movement nearly negroes night officers Ohio passed Port Port Hudson position Potomac prisoners pushed raid 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 - 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 255 - ... commander-in-chief 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 declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated states and parts of states are and henceforward shall be free, and that the executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons. And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defense; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully...
Página 255 - St. Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans, including the city of New Orleans, ) Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina...
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 742 - April 7, 1865 GENERAL : — I have received your note of this date. Though not entertaining the opinion you express on the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia...
Página 677 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the...
Página 158 - I have seen too many dead and wounded comrades to feel otherwise than that the Government has not sustained this army. If you do not do so now, the game is lost.
Página 742 - GENERAL : The result of the last week must convince you of the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the army of Northern Virginia in this struggle. 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 742 - I would say that peace being my great desire, there is but one condition I would insist upon, namely : that the men and officers surrendered shall be disqualified for taking up arms again against the government of the United States until properly exchanged.