The Military and Naval History of the Rebellion in the United States. With Biographical Sketches of Deceased OfficersD. Appleton, 1865 - 843 páginas |
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... guns against us un- less ours should be employed against Fort Sumter , you are authorized thus to avoid the effusion ... guns were all turned ; the granite flagging for the second tier was laid , on the right face of the work ; the ...
... guns against us un- less ours should be employed against Fort Sumter , you are authorized thus to avoid the effusion ... guns were all turned ; the granite flagging for the second tier was laid , on the right face of the work ; the ...
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... guns pointing towards Sumter . " Major Anderson , writing to the War Depart- ment , about March 1st , expressed his convic- tion that Fort Sumter would soon be attacked . He could then clearly discern with the naked eye the arrangements ...
... guns pointing towards Sumter . " Major Anderson , writing to the War Depart- ment , about March 1st , expressed his convic- tion that Fort Sumter would soon be attacked . He could then clearly discern with the naked eye the arrangements ...
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... guns from the Gun Battery on Cummings ' Point , from Captain McCready's Battery , from Captain James Hamilton's Float- ing Battery , the Enfilade Battery , and other for- tifications , sent forth their wrath at the grim fortress rising ...
... guns from the Gun Battery on Cummings ' Point , from Captain McCready's Battery , from Captain James Hamilton's Float- ing Battery , the Enfilade Battery , and other for- tifications , sent forth their wrath at the grim fortress rising ...
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... guns , 17 mortars . Of the 43 workmen constituting the engineer force in Fort Sumter , nearly all volunteered to serve as cannoniers , or to carry shot and cart- ridges to the guns . The armament of the fort was as follows : Barbette ...
... guns , 17 mortars . Of the 43 workmen constituting the engineer force in Fort Sumter , nearly all volunteered to serve as cannoniers , or to carry shot and cart- ridges to the guns . The armament of the fort was as follows : Barbette ...
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... guns worked rapidly and zealously at this ; but so rapid was the spread of the flames that only fifty barrels of powder could be taken out and distributed around in the casemates before the fire and beat made it necessary to close the ...
... guns worked rapidly and zealously at this ; but so rapid was the spread of the flames that only fifty barrels of powder could be taken out and distributed around in the casemates before the fire and beat made it necessary to close the ...
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advance arms army arrived artillery attack Banks batteries battle boats bridge Brig.-Gen brigade Burnside camp Capt captured cavalry Centreville citizens command commenced Confederate army Confederate force Corinth corps Creek crossed D. H. Hill defence Department despatch destroyed division of Gen enemy enemy's Federal force Ferry fire flag flank force of Gen Fort Sumter Fortress Monroe Fredericksburg front Government Governor gunboats guns Halleck Harper's Ferry HEADQUARTERS hundred infantry Island Jackson junction Kentucky killed large number loss Maj.-Gen Manassas mand McClellan McDowell ment miles military Mississippi Missouri morning moved movement night North o'clock occupied officers Ohio passed Port Port Hudson position Potomac President prisoners railroad rear reënforcements regiments retreat Richmond rifle river road Rosecrans secession Secretary of War sent side skirmish soldiers South Carolina steamer surrender Tennessee thousand tion troops Union United vessels Vicksburg Virginia Warrenton Washington wounded
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Página 27 - 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 319 - States are and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons. And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defence ; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages.
Página 5 - 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, is hereby dissolved.
Página 319 - I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
Página 318 - ... 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 318 - Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion...
Página 363 - 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...
Página 273 - That the executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the United States...
Página 273 - That on the first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, 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 272 - I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States of America, and Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy thereof, do hereby proclaim and declare that hereafter, as heretofore, the war will be prosecuted for the object of practically restoring the constitutional relation between the United States and each of the States and the people thereof, in which States that relation is or may be suspended or disturbed.