The Rebellion Record: June '63-Nov. '63Frank Moore Putnam, 1864 |
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... enemy at every point , and for some three hours held the town against every odds brought to bear against it . After the enemy commenced sweeping the streets of the town with round shot and grape , the Seventh only retired to the north ...
... enemy at every point , and for some three hours held the town against every odds brought to bear against it . After the enemy commenced sweeping the streets of the town with round shot and grape , the Seventh only retired to the north ...
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... enemy was dis - order : Sixth Kentucky cavalry , Colonel Watkins covered drawn up in line of battle , a force of commanding ; Fourth Kentucky cavalry , Colonel four or five hundred occupying a commanding eminence , protected at all ...
... enemy was dis - order : Sixth Kentucky cavalry , Colonel Watkins covered drawn up in line of battle , a force of commanding ; Fourth Kentucky cavalry , Colonel four or five hundred occupying a commanding eminence , protected at all ...
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... enemy's cavalry came down the road which branches off to the right from Beverly's , and made a dash for the ford ... enemy had on , the extreme right , and compelled the enemy to move the other . During this interim the skirmishers of ...
... enemy's cavalry came down the road which branches off to the right from Beverly's , and made a dash for the ford ... enemy had on , the extreme right , and compelled the enemy to move the other . During this interim the skirmishers of ...
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... enemy effected a recrossing of the Rappahannock at Beverly's and fords adjacent . The enemy fought hand to hand for a time , but relied principally upon their cavalry , dismounted and used as infantry , and their artillery . Our brave ...
... enemy effected a recrossing of the Rappahannock at Beverly's and fords adjacent . The enemy fought hand to hand for a time , but relied principally upon their cavalry , dismounted and used as infantry , and their artillery . Our brave ...
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... enemy did not pur- roads , and I also sent a messenger to Colonel Mc- sue in force . Occasionally , during the day , Reynolds at Berryville notifying him that the small detachments of rebel cavalry approached enemy was reported to be in ...
... enemy did not pur- roads , and I also sent a messenger to Colonel Mc- sue in force . Occasionally , during the day , Reynolds at Berryville notifying him that the small detachments of rebel cavalry approached enemy was reported to be in ...
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Términos y frases comunes
advance arms army corps arrived artillery assault attack battery boats brave bridge brigade Brigadier-General camp Captain captured cavalry Cemetery Hill charge Chattanooga citizens Colonel column command commenced confederate Creek crossed despatch destroyed division duty eight enemy enemy's engaged eral expedition fall back fell field fight fire five flank force Fort Wagner forward four front gallant Gettysburgh gunboat guns headquarters hill horses hundred infantry July June killed and wounded Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel line of battle loss Major Major-General mand McClernand ment Middleburgh miles Milliken's Bend morning Morris Island moved New-York night o'clock P.M. officers Ohio passed Pennsylvania pickets Port Hudson position Potomac prisoners railroad reached rear regiment repulsed retreat ridge river road Rossville sent shell shot side skirmishers soldiers soon steamer surrender thousand tion took town troops Union Vallandigham Valley Vicksburgh Virginia volunteers wagons Weehawken woods
Pasajes populares
Página 29 - When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below ; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and the like could succeed. When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join General Banks, and when you turned northward, east of the...
Página 1 - In testimony, whereof I, Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United States of America, have caused these Letters to be made Patent, and the Seal of the General Land Office to be hereunto affixed.
Página 294 - Nor am 1 able to appreciate the danger apprehended by the meeting that the American people will, by means of military arrests during the rebellion, lose the right of public discussion, the liberty of speech and the press, the law of evidence, trial by jury, and habeas corpus, throughout the indefinite peaceful future which I trust lies before them, any more than I am able to believe that a man could contract so strong an appetite for emetics during temporary illness, as to persist in feeding upon...
Página 7 - Whereas, for the reasons thus recited, it was enacted by the said statute that all able-bodied male citizens of the United States, and persons of foreign birth who shall have declared on oath their intention to become citizens...
Página 143 - Men who have shown so much endurance and courage as those now in Vicksburg, will always challenge the respect of an adversary, and I can assure you, will be treated with all the respect due them as prisoners of. war. I do not favor the proposition of appointing commissioners to arrange terms of capitulation, because I have no other terms than those indicated above.
Página 364 - I have to say it gave me pain when I learned that Mr. Vallandigham had been arrested; that is, I was pained that there should have seemed to be a necessity for arresting him, and that it will afford me great pleasure to discharge him so soon as I can, by any means, believe the public safety will not suffer by it.
Página 368 - ... 1. That there is now a rebellion in the United States, the object and tendency of which is to destroy the National Union; and that, in your opinion, an army and navy are constitutional means for suppressing that rebellion. 2. That no one of you will do...
Página 298 - ... rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right — a right which, we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people that can may revolutionize, and make their own of so much of their territory as they inhabit.
Página 292 - From this material, under cover of 'liberty of speech,' 'liberty of the press,' and 'habeas corpus', they hoped to keep on foot amongst us a most efficient corps of spies, informers, suppliers, and aiders and abettors of their cause in a thousand ways. They knew that in times...
Página 292 - that these safeguards of the rights of the citizen against the pretensions of arbitrary power were intended more especially for his protection in times of civil commotion.