THE AMERICAN CONFLICT: A HSTORY OF THE GREAT REBELLION1866 |
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... forward , so fast as ready , to within a mile and a half of the Rebel defenses ; the gunboats moving up the river in advance of the troops , and shelling the road • March 12 . toward the enemy , affording no pro- tection from his 76 THE ...
... forward , so fast as ready , to within a mile and a half of the Rebel defenses ; the gunboats moving up the river in advance of the troops , and shelling the road • March 12 . toward the enemy , affording no pro- tection from his 76 THE ...
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... forward compartments and letting in a deluge of water . An hour later , she was hard and fast upon Frying Pan Shoals , one compartment filled to the water - line , and her forward berths afloat , her Captain manifestly incom- petent ...
... forward compartments and letting in a deluge of water . An hour later , she was hard and fast upon Frying Pan Shoals , one compartment filled to the water - line , and her forward berths afloat , her Captain manifestly incom- petent ...
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... forward to support patched one division toward Center- ville , " Jackson's spies assured him that Shields had but four regiments left , and might easily be captured or routed ; so Ashby drove in our pick- ets and pressed hard upon ...
... forward to support patched one division toward Center- ville , " Jackson's spies assured him that Shields had but four regiments left , and might easily be captured or routed ; so Ashby drove in our pick- ets and pressed hard upon ...
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... forward two com- they could guard our left , yet form a panies of the 2d Michigan to beat portion of our front . back the enemy's skirmishers , now annoying our batteries ; while Maj . Wainwright , Hooker's chief of artil- lery ...
... forward two com- they could guard our left , yet form a panies of the 2d Michigan to beat portion of our front . back the enemy's skirmishers , now annoying our batteries ; while Maj . Wainwright , Hooker's chief of artil- lery ...
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... forward for you , is with you by this time ; and , if so , I think it is the precise time for you to strike a blow . By delay , the ene- my will relatively gain upon you ; that is , he will gain faster by fortifications and re ...
... forward for you , is with you by this time ; and , if so , I think it is the precise time for you to strike a blow . By delay , the ene- my will relatively gain upon you ; that is , he will gain faster by fortifications and re ...
Términos y frases comunes
A. P. Hill abatis advance April arms artillery assailed assault attack Banks battle Bragg bridge Brig.-Gen brigade burned Capt captured cavalry charge Chattanooga command Confederate Corinth corps creek crossed defenses dispatched division enemy enemy's fell fight fire flank fleet Fort Sumter Fortress Monroe Fredericksburg front Grant gunboats guns Harper's Ferry heavy held Hill Hooker horses infantry intrenchments J. E. B. Stuart Jackson Lee's loss Maj.-Gen mand March McClellan ment miles military Mississippi morning moved movement nearly negroes night officers Ohio passed Port Port Hudson position Potomac prisoners pushed raid railroad reached rear Rebel army Rebel force Rebellion rëenforced regiments repulsed retreat Richmond ridge river road Rosecrans routed says sent Sept shell Sherman shot side sion skirmishers Slavery slaves Smith soldiers soon South Carolina strong surrender Tennessee thence tion troops Union vance Vicksburg Virginia woods
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Página 250 - I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Página 255 - ... 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 first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and...
Página 255 - ... and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated states and parts of 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-defense; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully...
Página 255 - St. Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans, including the city of New Orleans, ) Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina...
Página 657 - I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere...
Página 742 - April 7, 1865 GENERAL : — I have received your note of this date. Though not entertaining the opinion you express on the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia...
Página 677 - 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...
Página 158 - I have seen too many dead and wounded comrades to feel otherwise than that the Government has not sustained this army. If you do not do so now, the game is lost.
Página 742 - GENERAL : The result of the last week must convince you of the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the army of Northern Virginia in this struggle. I feel that it is so, and regard it as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility of any further effusion of blood by asking of you the surrender of that portion of the Confederate States army known as the army of Northern Virginia.
Página 742 - I would say that peace being my great desire, there is but one condition I would insist upon, namely : that the men and officers surrendered shall be disqualified for taking up arms again against the government of the United States until properly exchanged.