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... wounded were prepared ; surgeons were ordered to their posts , and every preparation made for a regular battle . Among the portentous signs , the community was thrown into a fever of excitement by the discharge of seven guns from the ...
... wounded were prepared ; surgeons were ordered to their posts , and every preparation made for a regular battle . Among the portentous signs , the community was thrown into a fever of excitement by the discharge of seven guns from the ...
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... wounded . The excitement in Baltimore continued for weeks ; the bridges on the railroad to the Susquehanna were destroyed ; the regular route of travel broken up , and some twenty or twenty - five thousand Northern volunteers , on their ...
... wounded . The excitement in Baltimore continued for weeks ; the bridges on the railroad to the Susquehanna were destroyed ; the regular route of travel broken up , and some twenty or twenty - five thousand Northern volunteers , on their ...
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... wounded , while that of the enemy , by their own ac- knowledgment , was thirty killed and more than one hundred wounded . The fact , however , was , that our troops had fought under the impenetrable cover of their batteries , the only ...
... wounded , while that of the enemy , by their own ac- knowledgment , was thirty killed and more than one hundred wounded . The fact , however , was , that our troops had fought under the impenetrable cover of their batteries , the only ...
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... wounded and had become unman- ageable , he refused to surrender his sword to his captors , and a messenger had to ride six miles to find an officer to receive it from the hands of the ill - starred commander . When Gen. Garnett heard of ...
... wounded and had become unman- ageable , he refused to surrender his sword to his captors , and a messenger had to ride six miles to find an officer to receive it from the hands of the ill - starred commander . When Gen. Garnett heard of ...
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... wounded , ordered the regiment to retire -the officers and men manifesting decided reluctance at being withdrawn . The loss to the enemy in this gallant little affair must have been quite considerable , as they had , from their own ...
... wounded , ordered the regiment to retire -the officers and men manifesting decided reluctance at being withdrawn . The loss to the enemy in this gallant little affair must have been quite considerable , as they had , from their own ...
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Southern History of the War: The Third Year of the War Edward Alfred Pollard No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 370 - New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the consent of the legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
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Page 362 - States, reserving to the States respectively the appointment of the officers and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress; 17. To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the Government of the United States...
Page 357 - No person shall be a representative who shall not have attained the age of twenty-five years, and been seven years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.
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Page 54 - WHEREAS, The laws of the United States have been for some time past and now are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and 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...
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Page 362 - To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offences against the law of nations. 11. To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water. 12. To raise and support armies; but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years. 13. To provide and maintain a navy.