Abraham Lincoln: A History, Volumen10Century 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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... BATTLE OF FRANKLIN . 14 BATTLE OF NASHVILLE . 26 COAST OF THE CAROLINAS . 40 FORT FISHER 56 BATTLE OF FIVE FORKS . 170 FROM PETERSBURG TO APPOMATTOX COURT HOUSE . 176 BATTLE OF BENTONVILLE ... . 236 TABLE OF CONTENTS VOL . X CHAPTER I ...
... BATTLE OF FRANKLIN . 14 BATTLE OF NASHVILLE . 26 COAST OF THE CAROLINAS . 40 FORT FISHER 56 BATTLE OF FIVE FORKS . 170 FROM PETERSBURG TO APPOMATTOX COURT HOUSE . 176 BATTLE OF BENTONVILLE ... . 236 TABLE OF CONTENTS VOL . X CHAPTER I ...
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... battles , and Captain Cooke was promoted to the command of the rebel navy on the coast of North Carolina . With a few ... battle ; on the 24th of May she was seen by a picket boat , appar- ently dragging for torpedoes . A single shot ...
... battles , and Captain Cooke was promoted to the command of the rebel navy on the coast of North Carolina . With a few ... battle ; on the 24th of May she was seen by a picket boat , appar- ently dragging for torpedoes . A single shot ...
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... battle , or rather series of battles , took place , with fatal results to Lee's fast - vanishing army . The Fifth Corps held the extreme right and was not engaged . Humphreys , coming to where the roads divided , took the right fork and ...
... battle , or rather series of battles , took place , with fatal results to Lee's fast - vanishing army . The Fifth Corps held the extreme right and was not engaged . Humphreys , coming to where the roads divided , took the right fork and ...
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... battle of Mobile Bay , IX , 232 , 233 . Alexander , E. P. , Conf . Col .: in battle of Gettysburg , VII , 262 ; opinion about Gettysburg , 271 . Alexandra , The , case of , VIII , 256 , 257 . Allen , William F. , member of commission on ...
... battle of Mobile Bay , IX , 232 , 233 . Alexander , E. P. , Conf . Col .: in battle of Gettysburg , VII , 262 ; opinion about Gettysburg , 271 . Alexandra , The , case of , VIII , 256 , 257 . Allen , William F. , member of commission on ...
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... Battle of Pea Ridge , March 6-8 , 1862 , V , 291 , 292 ; John S. Phelps appointed military governor , VI , 346 ; Lincoln's letter to Steele and Phelps , Nov. 18 , 1862 , about reconstruction , 350 ; condition of , described by Hindman ...
... Battle of Pea Ridge , March 6-8 , 1862 , V , 291 , 292 ; John S. Phelps appointed military governor , VI , 346 ; Lincoln's letter to Steele and Phelps , Nov. 18 , 1862 , about reconstruction , 350 ; condition of , described by Hindman ...
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Página 145 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said : " The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Página 145 - South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those Divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until...
Página 144 - Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came.
Página 93 - 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 144 - The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself, and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avert it.
Página 144 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes. " Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by...
Página 279 - They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
Página 279 - WHEN the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The Lord hath done great things for them. The Lord hath done great things for us ; whereof we are glad.
Página 144 - To strengthen, perpetuate and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war ; while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it.
Página 80 - ... we are in favor, furthermore, of such an amendment to the Constitution, to be made by the people in conformity with its provisions, as shall terminate and forever prohibit the existence of slavery within the limits or the jurisdiction of the United States.