History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850: 1862-1864Harper & brothers, 1899 |
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... enemy's line from Yorktown to Warwick River , at once . " — O. R. , vol . xi . part i . p . 14. McClellan wrote his wife : " The President very coolly telegraphed me yesterday that he thought I had better break the enemy's lines at once ...
... enemy's line from Yorktown to Warwick River , at once . " — O. R. , vol . xi . part i . p . 14. McClellan wrote his wife : " The President very coolly telegraphed me yesterday that he thought I had better break the enemy's lines at once ...
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... enemy and began the battle of Williamsburg , which was fought without a plan , under confused orders and defective disposition of forces , and , though somewhat relieved by a brilliant exploit of Hancock , then commander of a brigade ...
... enemy and began the battle of Williamsburg , which was fought without a plan , under confused orders and defective disposition of forces , and , though somewhat relieved by a brilliant exploit of Hancock , then commander of a brigade ...
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... enemy might be beaten before Richmond on either flank , and we would try to do it , but that I could not allow the army to be penned up in a city . " 4 1 Richmond Examiner , April 21 , May 6. General Lee's campaign in western Virginia ...
... enemy might be beaten before Richmond on either flank , and we would try to do it , but that I could not allow the army to be penned up in a city . " 4 1 Richmond Examiner , April 21 , May 6. General Lee's campaign in western Virginia ...
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... enemy's guns Governor Letcher affixed his hand and seal to a call for a meeting at the City Hall for the purpose of pro- 1 Life of Stephens , Johnston & Browne , p . 415 . 2 A Rebel War Clerk's Diary , Jones , vol . i . p . 126 ...
... enemy's guns Governor Letcher affixed his hand and seal to a call for a meeting at the City Hall for the purpose of pro- 1 Life of Stephens , Johnston & Browne , p . 415 . 2 A Rebel War Clerk's Diary , Jones , vol . i . p . 126 ...
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... enemy seventy miles off , and he himself sur- rounded by 35,000 or 40,000 men , well armed and equipped and with eighty cannon . I don't mean by this that he was in bodily fear , ' but that he was paralyzed by his incapacity to deal ...
... enemy seventy miles off , and he himself sur- rounded by 35,000 or 40,000 men , well armed and equipped and with eighty cannon . I don't mean by this that he was in bodily fear , ' but that he was paralyzed by his incapacity to deal ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 464 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
Página 161 - That, on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, 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 297 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.
Página 212 - Portsmouth and which excepted parts are for the present left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued and by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid i do order 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...
Página 522 - This morning, as for some days past, it seems exceedingly probable that this Administration will not be re-elected. Then it will be my duty to so cooperate with the President-elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration ; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he cannot possibly save it afterwards.
Página 74 - 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 under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be
Página 422 - I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that " while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the emancipation proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the acts of Congress.
Página 99 - I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies — from an army whose business it has been to seek the adversary, and to beat him when found, whose policy has been attack and not defence.
Página 74 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to 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 save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that.
Página 158 - What good would a proclamation of emancipation from me do, especially as we are now situated? I do not want to issue a document that the whole world will see must necessarily be inoperative, like the Pope's bull against the comet.