Vermont in the Great RebellionTracy, Chase, 1869 - 288 páginas |
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Otis Frederick Reed Waite. TO THE WIVES , MOTHERS AND SISTERS OF THE BRAVE OFFICERS AND MEN WHO WERE IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION FROM THE STATE OF VERMONT THIS BOOK IS REVERENTLY INSCRIBED , BY THE AUTHOR . M188321 PREFACE . A POPULAR ...
Otis Frederick Reed Waite. TO THE WIVES , MOTHERS AND SISTERS OF THE BRAVE OFFICERS AND MEN WHO WERE IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION FROM THE STATE OF VERMONT THIS BOOK IS REVERENTLY INSCRIBED , BY THE AUTHOR . M188321 PREFACE . A POPULAR ...
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... officers and marines . Notwithstanding the necessity for the presence of this fleet in our own waters to aid the government in this trying hour , it was dispersed , for no good excuse ; the Brooklyn , twenty - five guns , and the store ...
... officers and marines . Notwithstanding the necessity for the presence of this fleet in our own waters to aid the government in this trying hour , it was dispersed , for no good excuse ; the Brooklyn , twenty - five guns , and the store ...
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... officers whom he had the power to displace at any moment , and yet he never raised his hand to prevent or check them . There were a few leading and influential men in the slave States , slaveholders themselves , who , wiser than the ...
... officers whom he had the power to displace at any moment , and yet he never raised his hand to prevent or check them . There were a few leading and influential men in the slave States , slaveholders themselves , who , wiser than the ...
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... Officers in command of revenue cutters of the United States have been prevailed on to violate their trusts , and surrender the property in their charge ; and instead of being branded for their crimes , they and the vessels they betrayed ...
... Officers in command of revenue cutters of the United States have been prevailed on to violate their trusts , and surrender the property in their charge ; and instead of being branded for their crimes , they and the vessels they betrayed ...
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... , of South Carolina , ordered Captain Porter to surrender his ship to the rebels . The following is Captain Porter's noble reply : " You , sir , have called upon your brother officers , not only to become traitors 30 VERMONT IN THE.
... , of South Carolina , ordered Captain Porter to surrender his ship to the rebels . The following is Captain Porter's noble reply : " You , sir , have called upon your brother officers , not only to become traitors 30 VERMONT IN THE.
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Vermont in the Great Rebellion: Containing Historical and Biographical ... Otis F. R. Waite Sin vista previa disponible - 2018 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Abraham Lincoln Adjutant April army artillery attack August battery battle of Fredericksburg BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG Brattleboro brave breveted Burlington camp Captain captured casualties cavalry charge Charles command Company duty Eleventh Regiment enemy enemy's engaged enlisted February field Fifth fight fire force Fort Moultrie Fort Sumter four Fourth Regiment Fredericksburg front line gallant gallantry George guns Henry hundred infantry John Johnsbury July June killed Lieutenant Colonel Lincoln line of battle mand marched ment miles militia minie ball missing mustered night o'clock officers ordered Petersburg picket Port Hudson position President prisoners re-enlisted rear rebellion rebels Regi rifle-pits river Rutland Second Lieut Second Regiment Second Vermont sent September Sharpshooters Sixth Corps Sixth Regiment Sixth Vermont skirmish line slaveholders Stannard Third Regiment Third Vermont thousand tion took towns Union United States service Vermont Brigade Vermont Regiment Vermont troops Volunteers Washburn Washington West Fairlee Wilderness William wounded
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Página 43 - Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law.
Página 32 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Página 18 - We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained; "That the Ordinance adopted by us in Convention, on the twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America...
Página 44 - Deeming that the present condition of public affairs presents an extraordinary occasion, I do hereby, in virtue of the power in me vested by the Constitution, convene both Houses of Congress.
Página 18 - Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the "United States of America,
Página 43 - The details for this object will be immediately communicated to the State authorities through the War Department. I appeal to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate, and aid this effort to maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence of our National Union and the perpetuity of popular government and to redress wrongs already long enough endured.
Página 37 - Sumter by noon on the 15th instant, should I not receive, prior to that time, controlling instructions from my Government, or additional supplies ; and that I will not, in the mean time, open my fire upon your forces, unless compelled to do so by some hostile act against this fort or the flag of my Government, by the forces under your command, or by some portion of them, or by the perpetration of some act showing a hostile...
Página 32 - We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Página 15 - I am impliedly if not expressly pledged to a belief in the right and duty of Congress to prohibit slavery in all the United States Territories. Q. 7. 'I desire him to answer whether he is opposed to the acquisition of any new territory unless slavery is first prohibited therein.
Página 43 - I deem it proper to say that the first service assigned to the forces hereby called forth, will probably be to repossess the forts, places, and property which have been seized from the Union ; and in every event the utmost care will be observed, consistently with the objects aforesaid, to avoid any devastation, any destruction of, or interference with, property, or any disturbance of peaceful citizens of any part of the country...