Four Years with the Army of the PotomacTicknor, 1888 - 757 páginas |
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... morning , Friday , April 12 , at four o'clock , all the rebel batteries opened fire . The fort held a garri- son of only eighty - one men , and was in no state for defence . In the casemates , about forty embrasures , in course of ...
... morning , Friday , April 12 , at four o'clock , all the rebel batteries opened fire . The fort held a garri- son of only eighty - one men , and was in no state for defence . In the casemates , about forty embrasures , in course of ...
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... morning of the battle , a telegraphic despatch from the War Department announced to me . that the services of my regiment were accepted , and , one week after , we were encamped on Staten Island , across the bay from New York , - the ...
... morning of the battle , a telegraphic despatch from the War Department announced to me . that the services of my regiment were accepted , and , one week after , we were encamped on Staten Island , across the bay from New York , - the ...
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... morning the company and the platoon drill ; in the afternoon battalion drill and field duty . This was nothing new to the Fifty - fifth , but it was very different with the other regiments . A French lieutenant , belonging to a ...
... morning the company and the platoon drill ; in the afternoon battalion drill and field duty . This was nothing new to the Fifty - fifth , but it was very different with the other regiments . A French lieutenant , belonging to a ...
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... morning , that he had entered the camps of twelve regiments , without being stopped , or even challenged , walking around freely everywhere with his men . the Sixty - second New York , he had found seven senti- nels asleep , rolled up ...
... morning , that he had entered the camps of twelve regiments , without being stopped , or even challenged , walking around freely everywhere with his men . the Sixty - second New York , he had found seven senti- nels asleep , rolled up ...
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... morning of the 26th of September the regiment broke camp in obedience to an order received the even- ing before . The brigade was sent three or four miles to the front , in the neighborhood of Tenallytown . The road was good and ...
... morning of the 26th of September the regiment broke camp in obedience to an order received the even- ing before . The brigade was sent three or four miles to the front , in the neighborhood of Tenallytown . The road was good and ...
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Términos y frases comunes
A. P. Hill abatis advance amongst appeared arms army arrived artillery attack bank batteries battle Birney Boydton brigade Burnside camp campaign cannon carried cavalry Colonel column command Confederates crossed defended division enemy enemy's eral everything favor field Fifth Corps Fifty-fifth fight fire force Fort Magruder Fortress Monroe Fredericksburg front general-in-chief ground guns Hancock Harper's Ferry Heintzelman Hill Hooker horses hundred hurried immediately intrenchments Little Round Top McClellan Meade ment miles military morning movement night Ninth Corps North o'clock officers passed Petersburg pickets position Potomac President prisoners railroad ranks Rappahannock rear rebels received reënforcements regiments remained retreat Richmond river road Second Corps sent side Sixth Corps skirmishers slavery soldiers soon South South Carolina taken tent Third Corps thousand tion took troops turn victory Virginia wagons Washington woods wounded York
Pasajes populares
Página 752 - I propose to receive the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia on the following terms, to wit: Rolls of all the officers and men to be made in duplicate, one copy to be given to an officer to be designated by me, the other to be retained by such officer or officers as you may designate.
Página 384 - And this issue embraces more than the fate of these United States. It presents to the whole family of man the question whether a constitutional republic or democracy — a government of the people by the same people — can or cannot maintain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes.
Página 383 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Página 746 - April 7, 1865. 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 383 - I now reiterate these sentiments; and in doing so I only press upon the public attention the most conclusive evidence of which the case is susceptible, that the property, peace, and security of no section are to be in anywise endangered by the now incoming administration.
Página 393 - Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as 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...
Página 676 - States, or other peaceable means, to the end that at the earliest practicable moment peace may be restored on the basis of the Federal Union of the States.
Página 383 - I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
Página 394 - ... order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof, respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit: Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, (except the parishes of St.
Página 390 - If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery.