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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... WOUNDED ; BURNING OF BRIDGES ; BURIAL OF SOLDIERS ; PATRIOTIC SPEECHES ; AND OTHER INCIDENTS OF INTEREST CON- NECTED WITH THE REBELLION . TAKEN FROM GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS AND OTHER RELIABLE SOURCES . VOL . II . CAREFULLY COMPILED BY MRS ...
... WOUNDED ; BURNING OF BRIDGES ; BURIAL OF SOLDIERS ; PATRIOTIC SPEECHES ; AND OTHER INCIDENTS OF INTEREST CON- NECTED WITH THE REBELLION . TAKEN FROM GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS AND OTHER RELIABLE SOURCES . VOL . II . CAREFULLY COMPILED BY MRS ...
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... wounded and disabled on board of the private - armed vessels in any engagement with the enemy . President Davis , in his message , makes a statement to the Confederates of the operations of the army and navy departments , the number of ...
... wounded and disabled on board of the private - armed vessels in any engagement with the enemy . President Davis , in his message , makes a statement to the Confederates of the operations of the army and navy departments , the number of ...
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... wounded . Immense crowds of people filled the streets after the occurrence , and the most intense indignation was mani- fested against the Germans ; the regulars , volunteers , and Home Guards being mostly composed of Germans . Several ...
... wounded . Immense crowds of people filled the streets after the occurrence , and the most intense indignation was mani- fested against the Germans ; the regulars , volunteers , and Home Guards being mostly composed of Germans . Several ...
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... wounded . May 20. The North Carolina Convention passed an ordinance of secession . Governor Magoffin , of Kentucky , issued a proclamation of neutrality , in which he asserts that the arms in the hands of the Home Guard , shall not be ...
... wounded . May 20. The North Carolina Convention passed an ordinance of secession . Governor Magoffin , of Kentucky , issued a proclamation of neutrality , in which he asserts that the arms in the hands of the Home Guard , shall not be ...
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... wounded . The disaster to the rebels was inconsiderable , though it was the cause of some recrimination , and subjected Colonel Porterfield , the Confederate commander , to trial by court - martial ; yet it was regarded as 240 THE ...
... wounded . The disaster to the rebels was inconsiderable , though it was the cause of some recrimination , and subjected Colonel Porterfield , the Confederate commander , to trial by court - martial ; yet it was regarded as 240 THE ...
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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,...