History of the Great Rebellion, from Its Commencement to Its Close, Giving an Account of Its Origin: The Secession of the Southern States, and the Formation of the Confederate Government, the Concentration of the Military and Financial Resources of the Federal Government ... Together with Sketches of the Lives of All the Eminent Statesmen and Military and Naval Commanders, with a Full and Complete Index. From Official SourcesL. Stebbins, 1865 - 778 páginas |
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... four , a bomb from Sullivan's Island burst over the fort , and in a few moments a circle of fire opened upon the devoted band from four large batteries and many smaller ones . One , on Cummings's Point , one thousand six hundred yards ...
... four , a bomb from Sullivan's Island burst over the fort , and in a few moments a circle of fire opened upon the devoted band from four large batteries and many smaller ones . One , on Cummings's Point , one thousand six hundred yards ...
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... four hundred and fifty - two officers and men - making a total increase of twenty - two thou- sand and sixty - eight infantry , officers and men ; and an addition to the strength of the regular army of twenty - five thousand one hundred ...
... four hundred and fifty - two officers and men - making a total increase of twenty - two thou- sand and sixty - eight infantry , officers and men ; and an addition to the strength of the regular army of twenty - five thousand one hundred ...
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... four miles higher up . The village itself lies on the west side of an elevated ridge , and is capable of being strongly fortified . Without waiting for the main body to come up , General Tyler im- mediately pushed forward a ...
... four miles higher up . The village itself lies on the west side of an elevated ridge , and is capable of being strongly fortified . Without waiting for the main body to come up , General Tyler im- mediately pushed forward a ...
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... four , viz .: two Indiana regiments , Frank Jarrett's ( the Eleventh Pennsylvania ) , and Owens's ( the Twenty - fourth Pennsylvania ) . Five regiments have gone home . Two more go to - day , and three more to - morrow . avoid being cut ...
... four , viz .: two Indiana regiments , Frank Jarrett's ( the Eleventh Pennsylvania ) , and Owens's ( the Twenty - fourth Pennsylvania ) . Five regiments have gone home . Two more go to - day , and three more to - morrow . avoid being cut ...
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... four times , and finally , about one o'clock , came up with the enemy's rear - guard . The Fourteenth Ohio advanced rapidly to the ford in which the enemy's wagons were standing , when , suddenly , the rebels , about four thousand ...
... four times , and finally , about one o'clock , came up with the enemy's rear - guard . The Fourteenth Ohio advanced rapidly to the ford in which the enemy's wagons were standing , when , suddenly , the rebels , about four thousand ...
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A. P. Hill advance Alabama arms army arrived artillery assault Atlanta attack Banks batteries battle Bragg bridge Brigade Brigadier-General Burnside campaign Captain captured cavalry centre Charleston Chattanooga Colonel column command commenced Confederate Congress Creek crossed defence Division enemy enemy's Federal fell back Fifth Corps fight fire flank fleet force Fort Sumter Fortress Monroe four Fredericksburg front garrison Government Grant gunboats guns Halleck Harper's Ferry head-quarters held Hill infantry intrenched Jackson James River July Kentucky killed land loss Major-General McClellan ment miles military Mississippi Missouri morning moved movement night North Carolina o'clock occupied officers Port Port Hudson position Potomac President prisoners proclamation railroad re-enforcements reached rear rebel rebellion regiments retired retreat Richmond River road Second Corps sent Sherman Sixth Corps skirmishers South Southern surrender Tennessee thousand tion Union army United vessels Vicksburg Virginia Washington West West Point wounded
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Página 359 - I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free.
Página 60 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government, and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.
Página 60 - This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
Página 746 - ... myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war.
Página 359 - If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save 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 361 - ... and forever free and the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authority thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons or any of them in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom...
Página 60 - States, including that of persons held to service. To avoid misconstruction of what I have said, I depart from my purpose not to speak of particular amendments so far as to say that, holding such a provision to now be implied constitutional law, I have no objection to its being made express and irrevocable.
Página 359 - If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy Slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union and is not either to save or destroy Slavery.
Página 361 - 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 434 - 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, I thought you should go down the river and join General Banks, and when you turned northward, east of the...