The Second Year of the WarWest & Johnston, 1863 - 310 páginas |
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... success . He can afford no better vindication of the character and objects of his work than by quoting here what was prefixed to one of the editions , of his first volume : " Every candid mind must be sensible of the futility of ...
... success . He can afford no better vindication of the character and objects of his work than by quoting here what was prefixed to one of the editions , of his first volume : " Every candid mind must be sensible of the futility of ...
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... Successes of the Democrats There ... Analysis of the Party Politics of the North ... The Interest of New England in the War ... How the War Affected the Northwestern Portions of the United States ... Mr. Foote's Reso- lutions Respecting ...
... Successes of the Democrats There ... Analysis of the Party Politics of the North ... The Interest of New England in the War ... How the War Affected the Northwestern Portions of the United States ... Mr. Foote's Reso- lutions Respecting ...
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... Success at Fort Pemberton ... The Enemy's Canals or " Cut Offs " ... Their Failure ... BOMBARDMENT OF PORT HUDSON ... Destruction of " The Mis- sissippi " ... A Funeral Pyre ... Happy Effects of our Victory ... A Review of the Line of ...
... Success at Fort Pemberton ... The Enemy's Canals or " Cut Offs " ... Their Failure ... BOMBARDMENT OF PORT HUDSON ... Destruction of " The Mis- sissippi " ... A Funeral Pyre ... Happy Effects of our Victory ... A Review of the Line of ...
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... successes in Virginia and Tennessee , or could hold the enemy at bay a month or two , the same result would follow " -a promise , to the breach of which and to the unhappy expectations which it excited , we shall hereafter have occasion ...
... successes in Virginia and Tennessee , or could hold the enemy at bay a month or two , the same result would follow " -a promise , to the breach of which and to the unhappy expectations which it excited , we shall hereafter have occasion ...
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... success that numbers , discipline , complete organization and perfect equipments could effect . The military system of the South dates from the passage of the conscription law . To this measure must be attributed that solidity in the ...
... success that numbers , discipline , complete organization and perfect equipments could effect . The military system of the South dates from the passage of the conscription law . To this measure must be attributed that solidity in the ...
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A. P. Hill advance arms army artillery attack bank batteries battle of Murfreesboro Bragg brave bridge brigade campaign captured cavalry charge Chickahominy Colonel command commenced Confederacy Confederate Congress corps crossed D. H. Hill defeat defences disaster division driven enemy enemy's engaged fall back Federal fell field fight fire flank forces Fredericksburg front Gordonsville gunboats guns Harper's Ferry Hill infantry Jackson James river Kentucky killed and wounded line of battle Longstreet loss Manassas Maryland McClellan ment miles military Mississippi morning movement night North Northern numbers o'clock occupied officers opened political Pope Port Port Hudson Port Republic portion position Potomac prisoners railroad Rappahannock rear regiment reinforcements repulsed retreat Richmond river road shell shot side skirmishers soldiers South Southern spirit success superiour surrender Tennessee terrible thousand tion troops Turner Ashby Valley Vicksburg victory Virginia Washington West whole Yankee
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Página 184 - 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 184 - And I do hereby enjoin upon and order all persons engaged in the military and naval service of the United States to observe, obey, and enforce, within their respective spheres of service, the act and sections above recited. And the Executive will in due time recommend that all citizens of the United States who shall have remained loyal thereto throughout the rebellion shall (upon the restoration of the constitutional...
Página 316 - Union, his determination to find some remedy for existing ills short of a severance of the ties which bound South Carolina to the other States, that Mr. Calhoun advocated the doctrine of nullification, which he proclaimed to be peaceful, to be within the limits of State power, not to disturb the Union, but only to be a means of bringing the agent before the tribunal of the States for their judgment.
Página 184 - 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.
Página 140 - Achievements such as these demanded much valour and patriotism. History records few examples of greater fortitude and endurance than this army has exhibited ; and I am commissioned by the President to thank you in the name of the Confederate States for the undying fame you have won for their arms.
Página 95 - I am sorry to find much in vogue amongst you. I hear constantly of taking strong positions and holding them — of lines of retreat, and of bases of supplies.
Página 271 - It is with heartfelt satisfaction, that the Commanding General announces to the army, that the operations of the last three days have determined that our enemy must either ingloriously fly, or come out from behind his defences, and give us battle on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits him.
Página 184 - 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, 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 State shall have participated, shall, in the absence...
Página 184 - States may then have voluntarily adopted, or thereafter may voluntarily adopt, immediate or gradual abolishment of slavery within their respective 'limits; and that the effort to colonize persons of African descent with their consent upon this continent or elsewhere, with the previously obtained consent of the governments existing there, will be continued.
Página 317 - That the constitution of the United States is not a league, confederacy, or compact between the people of the several states in their sovereign capacities ; but a government proper, founded on the adoption of the people, and creating direct relations between itself and individuals.