The Rebellion in the United States: Or, The War of 1861; Being a Complete History of Its Rise and Progress, Commencing with the Presidential Election ... Taken from Government Documents and Other Reliable Sources, Volumen2G.C. Rand & Avery, printers (v.1), 1863 |
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... Roads . When a similar battery shall be planted on Lambert's Point- which will be effected in a few days- the navy of the Northern myrmidons will be effectually backed down to the protecting beach of Fortress Monroe . " The magnificent ...
... Roads . When a similar battery shall be planted on Lambert's Point- which will be effected in a few days- the navy of the Northern myrmidons will be effectually backed down to the protecting beach of Fortress Monroe . " The magnificent ...
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... road , and the locomotive taken apart and strewed about the fields in the vicinity of the rail- road . But the Eighth Massachusetts Regiment having laid the track and repaired the engine , it was understood that we should go in the cars ...
... road , and the locomotive taken apart and strewed about the fields in the vicinity of the rail- road . But the Eighth Massachusetts Regiment having laid the track and repaired the engine , it was understood that we should go in the cars ...
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... road had not sufficient cars to carry the whole of us , and therefore the left wing of the regiment would be obliged to march the entire distance ( twenty miles ) . At about eleven o'clock , P. M. , we started , all tired out , having ...
... road had not sufficient cars to carry the whole of us , and therefore the left wing of the regiment would be obliged to march the entire distance ( twenty miles ) . At about eleven o'clock , P. M. , we started , all tired out , having ...
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... road between the Junction and Washington to keep the line . open . So we now have a direct line of communication and transportation between Annapolis and Washington , the train and locomotive off the track having been put to rights ...
... road between the Junction and Washington to keep the line . open . So we now have a direct line of communication and transportation between Annapolis and Washington , the train and locomotive off the track having been put to rights ...
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... road , and about twenty minutes be- fore nine , the train , consisting of sixteen long passenger and two baggage cars , moved out of the depot . The enthusiasm at this point was redoubled on both sides , and continued till the cars had ...
... road , and about twenty minutes be- fore nine , the train , consisting of sixteen long passenger and two baggage cars , moved out of the depot . The enthusiasm at this point was redoubled on both sides , and continued till the cars had ...
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Página 335 - I hereby enjoin upon all district attorneys, marshals, and officers of the revenue and of the military and naval forces of the United States to be vigilant in the execution of said act, and in the enforcement of the penalties and forfeitures imposed or declared by it; leaving any party who may think himself aggrieved thereby to his application to the Secretary of the Treasury for the remission of any penalty or forfeiture, which the said Secretary is authorized by law to grant if in his judgment...
Página 335 - States; and that all commercial intercourse between the same and the inhabitants thereof, with the exceptions aforesaid, and the citizens of other States and other parts of the United States, is unlawful, and will remain unlawful until such insurrection shall cease or has been suppressed...
Página 298 - I saw an artilleryman running between the ponderous fore and after wheels of his gun-carriage, hanging on with both hands, and vainly striving to jump upon the ordnance. The drivers were spurring the horses ; he could not cling much longer, and a more agonized expression never fixed the features of a drowning man. The carriage bounded from the roughness of a steep hill leading to a creek, he lost his hold, fell, and in an instant the great wheels had crushed the life out of him.
Página 217 - States as a fund for the support and maintenance of the widows and orphans of such persons as may be slain, and for the support and maintenance of such persons as may be wounded and disabled on board of the private armed vessels of the United States, in any engagement with the enemy, to be assigned and distributed in such manner as is or may be provided by law.
Página 299 - ... and flushed with surety of strength, was covered with the fragments of its retreating forces, shattered and panic-stricken in a single day. From the branch route the trains attached to Hunter's division had caught the contagion of the flight, and poured into its already swollen current another turbid freshet of confusion and dismay.
Página 298 - Army wagons, sutlers' teams, and private carriages, choked the passage, tumbling against each other, amid clouds of dust, and sickening sights and sounds. Hacks, containing unlucky spectators of the late affray, were smashed like glass, and the occupants were lost sight of in the debris. Horses, flying wildly from the battle-field, many of them in death agony, galloped at random forward, joining in the stampede. Those on foot who could catch them rode them bareback, as much to save themselves from...
Página 335 - States, and all proceeding to such State or section, by land or water, shall, together with the vessel or vehicle conveying the same, or conveying persons to or from such State or section, be forfeited to the United States...
Página 360 - ... Sergeant O'Connor snatched the falling colors, and again held them aloft, when he was also struck by a ball in his left hand, but he dropped behind a log, and kept the colors flying until exhaustion compelled him to drop them. His captain, Stephen McGroarty, as gallant a fellow as ever wore sword, snatched them up again, and while rolling them up, ordered his men to retire to cover, and in bringing up the rear a ball struck him in the right breast, and went through him without disabling him,...
Página 358 - ... overhead, was proof that the enemy was close at hand. Directly a gleam of light from a clearing in front, with a long stream of fire blazing along the works of the enemy, showed where they were. The General took position near the battery, but from that time until the last column groped out of the woods in thick darkness, he was in the midst of the combat, directing the general movements of the division.
Página 305 - Richmond. My leg having partially mortified, I consented that it should be amputated, which operation was performed by a young man. I insisted that they should allow Dr. Swalm to be present, for I wanted one Union man there if I died under the operation. The stitches and the band slipped from neglect, and the bone protruded; and about two weeks after another operation was performed, at which time another piece of the thigh bone was sawed off. Six weeks after the amputation, and before it healed,...