Abraham Lincoln: A History, Volumen3Century Company, 1890 - 470 páginas Lincoln's law partner wrote a history of Lincoln containing many little-known facts some of which have been disproved by later scholars. |
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... command at Fort Moultrie , for carrying ammunition from the arsenal at Charleston ; he had refused to send reënforcements to the garrison there ; he had accepted the resignation of CHAP . I. CHAP . I. the oldest , most eminent , and ...
... command at Fort Moultrie , for carrying ammunition from the arsenal at Charleston ; he had refused to send reënforcements to the garrison there ; he had accepted the resignation of CHAP . I. CHAP . I. the oldest , most eminent , and ...
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... command the fort would not , under ordinary cir- cumstances , be considered as initiating a collision . But the delicate question of its bearing on the popular mind , in its pres- ent excited state , demands the coolest and wisest ...
... command the fort would not , under ordinary cir- cumstances , be considered as initiating a collision . But the delicate question of its bearing on the popular mind , in its pres- ent excited state , demands the coolest and wisest ...
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... command , upon a mere point of honor . This is far from the President's inten- 1 General Scott also makes the same assertion in a letter writ- ten by his direction to General Twiggs , under date of December 28 , 1860.-W. R. Vol . I. , p ...
... command , upon a mere point of honor . This is far from the President's inten- 1 General Scott also makes the same assertion in a letter writ- ten by his direction to General Twiggs , under date of December 28 , 1860.-W. R. Vol . I. , p ...
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... command without close necessity . It is scarcely required to instruct an intelligent American officer in our day , that no professional duty requires him to sacrifice himself or his men upon any trifling point of honor . Self - respect ...
... command without close necessity . It is scarcely required to instruct an intelligent American officer in our day , that no professional duty requires him to sacrifice himself or his men upon any trifling point of honor . Self - respect ...
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... no means as assuring as he could have wished , that he and his whole command would spend the following night within the protecting walls of Fort Sumter . CHAPTER IV FORT SUMTER S soon as Anderson had resolved 46 ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
... no means as assuring as he could have wished , that he and his whole command would spend the following night within the protecting walls of Fort Sumter . CHAPTER IV FORT SUMTER S soon as Anderson had resolved 46 ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
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Administration adopted amendment arsenal authority batteries Cabinet Caleb Cushing Cameron Captain CHAP Charleston citizens Colonel command commissioners Committee compromise Congress conspirators Constitution convention Davis December December 31 declared dispatch duty election evacuation Executive Federal Floyd force Fort Monroe Fort Moultrie Fort Pickens Fort Sumter forts friends fugitive fugitive-slave law garrison Government Governor Pickens gress guns harbor Holt inauguration January January 11 Jefferson Jefferson Davis Legislature letter Lincoln Major Anderson ment military morning Morris Island Moultrie navy North officers opinion ordinance of secession party patriotic peace personal liberty bills political present President-elect Presidential question rebel rebellion reënforce reply Republican Scott secede secession Secretary Secretary of War Senate sent sentiment Seward slave slavery Slemmer South Carolina South Carolina House Southern Sumter telegraph tion Toombs Trescott troops Union United Virginia vote W. R. Vol Washington wrote СНАР