The American Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events ...: Embracing Political, Civil, Military, and Social Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical IndustryD. Appleton, 1863 |
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... entire failure , owing to an unprecedented drought , which continued through twelve weeks . Alabama is rich in mineral treasures . Lead and saltpetre , which were greatly needed by the Confederate Government , exist within her limits ...
... entire failure , owing to an unprecedented drought , which continued through twelve weeks . Alabama is rich in mineral treasures . Lead and saltpetre , which were greatly needed by the Confederate Government , exist within her limits ...
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... entire white population of the States comprising the Confed- eracy , by the census of 1860 , was as follows : Alabama Arkansas . Florida .. Georgia . Louisiana . Mississippi . North Carolina .. South Carolina . Tennessee ..... Texas ...
... entire white population of the States comprising the Confed- eracy , by the census of 1860 , was as follows : Alabama Arkansas . Florida .. Georgia . Louisiana . Mississippi . North Carolina .. South Carolina . Tennessee ..... Texas ...
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... entire rate for officers being 33 , and for men 54 per 1,000 . The excess of the mortality due to disease and accident , over that due to wounds in ac- tion , is a noticeable fact in the volunteer army of the United States , as in all ...
... entire rate for officers being 33 , and for men 54 per 1,000 . The excess of the mortality due to disease and accident , over that due to wounds in ac- tion , is a noticeable fact in the volunteer army of the United States , as in all ...
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... entire force thus organized , was not far from 160,000 men , which , in connection with other troops on the line of railroad to Baltimore , at that city , and in the vicinity , was something less than 200,000 men . This force before ...
... entire force thus organized , was not far from 160,000 men , which , in connection with other troops on the line of railroad to Baltimore , at that city , and in the vicinity , was something less than 200,000 men . This force before ...
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... entire force . The Federal forces most actively engaged were : the 9th Ohio , Col. McCook ; 2d Minnesota , Col. Van Cleve ; 4th Kentucky , Col. Fry ; 10th Indiana , Col. Mun- son ; with the batteries of Capts . Stanhart and Wetmore ...
... entire force . The Federal forces most actively engaged were : the 9th Ohio , Col. McCook ; 2d Minnesota , Col. Van Cleve ; 4th Kentucky , Col. Fry ; 10th Indiana , Col. Mun- son ; with the batteries of Capts . Stanhart and Wetmore ...
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Página 417 - Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all ; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.
Página 237 - Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the Southern States that by the accession of a Republican Administration their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered. There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension. Indeed, the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed and been open to their inspection. It is found in nearly all the published speeches of him who now addresses you. I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare...
Página 296 - ... the vital principle of republics from which there is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism; a well-disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war till regulars may relieve them; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority; economy in the public...
Página 5 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the...
Página 269 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free...
Página 326 - States the power to coin money, emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts.
Página 375 - All officers or persons in the military or naval service of the United States are prohibited from employing any of the forces under their respective commands for the purpose of returning fugitives from service or labor, who may have escaped from any persons to whom such service or labor is claimed to be due, and any officer who shall be found guilty by a court-martial of violating this article shall be dismissed from the service. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted. That this act shall take effect...
Página 364 - It may not be unworthy of remark that it is very unusual, even in cases of conquest, for the conqueror to do more than to displace the sovereign and assume dominion over the country. The modern usage of nations, which has become law, would be violated ; that sense of justice and of right which is acknowledged and felt by the whole civilized world would be outraged, if private property should be generally confiscated and private rights annulled.
Página 375 - Agriculture, the general designs and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants.
Página 16 - Congress is empowered in general ' to raise and support armies;' and by the second section of the second article, the president is appointed commander-in-chief of the army and navy, and of the militia when called into the service of the United States.