The Loyal People of the North-west: A Record of Prominent Persons, Places and Events, During Eight Years of Unparalleled American History, Volumen1Church, Goodman & Donnelley, printers, 1865 - 402 páginas |
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... McClernand placed in his possession his full memoranda of the movements of his command . Major - General Hurlbut kindly furnished important information . Learning that Rev. F. Senour , of Rockford , Illinois , had contem- plated a ...
... McClernand placed in his possession his full memoranda of the movements of his command . Major - General Hurlbut kindly furnished important information . Learning that Rev. F. Senour , of Rockford , Illinois , had contem- plated a ...
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... McClernand , and Hurlburt were the master spirits , and Wallace poured out his life ? ments . Here is made a personal acknowledgment . In the midst of pressing cares and overwork , the health of the author threatened to give way so ...
... McClernand , and Hurlburt were the master spirits , and Wallace poured out his life ? ments . Here is made a personal acknowledgment . In the midst of pressing cares and overwork , the health of the author threatened to give way so ...
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... McClernand , whose early record was so brilliant ; Prentiss , who suffered from wasting captivity ; Pope , whose military genius shone brilliantly in the campaign of Island No. 10 and Corinth ; Hurlbut , whose fighting 4th division ...
... McClernand , whose early record was so brilliant ; Prentiss , who suffered from wasting captivity ; Pope , whose military genius shone brilliantly in the campaign of Island No. 10 and Corinth ; Hurlbut , whose fighting 4th division ...
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... McClernand's and Wallace's Divisions — Grant as to a Surprise - Wallace and Hurlbut - Wallace Falls - Disaster - A Lull— Lew . Wallace and Buell - Webster's Guns - Another Conflict - The Enemy Stayed - Sunday Night - Beauregard's Report ...
... McClernand's and Wallace's Divisions — Grant as to a Surprise - Wallace and Hurlbut - Wallace Falls - Disaster - A Lull— Lew . Wallace and Buell - Webster's Guns - Another Conflict - The Enemy Stayed - Sunday Night - Beauregard's Report ...
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... McClernand with It - Organization of the Expedition - McClernand's Correspondence with the Secretary of War - Letter from the President - Correspondence with Gen. Halleck and Gen. Grant - Gen . McClernand Assigned to a Corps after the ...
... McClernand with It - Organization of the Expedition - McClernand's Correspondence with the Secretary of War - Letter from the President - Correspondence with Gen. Halleck and Gen. Grant - Gen . McClernand Assigned to a Corps after the ...
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Términos y frases comunes
1st Lieutenant 2d Lieu 2d Lieutenant advance arms army artillery attack battery battle battle of Shiloh Bird's Point brave bravery brigade Brigadier-General Cairo camp campaign Capt Captain captured cavalry charge Chicago Colonel command companies Corinth corps division Donelson duty enemy enemy's engaged enlisted expedition fall back fell field fight fire flag force Fort Donelson Fort Henry fought Fremont gallant Grant gunboats guns honor hundred Illinois regiments ILLINOIS VOLUNTEERS infantry James John Julius White July Kentucky killed land Lieut Lieutenant-Colonel Major Major-General McClernand ment miles military Mississippi Missouri morning moved Mulligan Murfreesboro mustered Nashville night officers Ohio ordered organized patriotic pickets position President prisoners quota Railroad rear rebel rebellion received retreat RICHARD YATES River road sent Sherman skirmishers slavery soldiers South Springfield surrender Tennessee Tennessee River thousand tion traitors troops Union Vicksburg victory wounded
Pasajes populares
Página 526 - 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 525 - Then a statement somewhat in detail of a course to be pursued seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented. 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...
Página 88 - ... a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned...
Página 71 - 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 525 - 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.
Página 67 - ... their oaths are unanimous. Now, if they would make the effort in good temper, could they not, with nearly equal unanimity, frame and pass a law by means of which to keep good that unanimous oath. There is some difference of opinion whether this clause should be enforced by national or by State authority ; but surely that difference is not a very material one. If the slave is to be surrendered, it can be of but little consequence to him, or to others, by which authority it is done. And should...
Página 68 - I trust this will not be regarded as a menace, but only as the declared purpose of the Union that it will constitutionally defend and maintain itself.
Página 512 - ... 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; and the fact that any State or the people thereof shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Página 512 - ... 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 512 - 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, do on this...