The Great Rebellion: A History of the Civil War in the United States, Volume 1National Tribune, 1898 - UNITED STATES--HISTORY--CIVIL WAR, 1861-1865 |
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... mean time , the fertile plains of Kansas had attracted settlers into it , and it was seen that a new state , which lay mostly north of the line which the Missouri Compromise prohibited to slavery , would soon ask to be admitted into the ...
... mean time , the fertile plains of Kansas had attracted settlers into it , and it was seen that a new state , which lay mostly north of the line which the Missouri Compromise prohibited to slavery , would soon ask to be admitted into the ...
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... mean time , Major Anderson , commander of the forts in the Charleston harbor , having but a handful of men under him , and seeing that fort Moultrie , in which the garrison was quartered could not resist an attack of land forces ...
... mean time , Major Anderson , commander of the forts in the Charleston harbor , having but a handful of men under him , and seeing that fort Moultrie , in which the garrison was quartered could not resist an attack of land forces ...
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... mean time , troops were drilling in the various southern states , and state after state went out of the Union , and ranged itself under the leadership of South Carolina . The Governor of North Carolina , celebrated the incoming year by ...
... mean time , troops were drilling in the various southern states , and state after state went out of the Union , and ranged itself under the leadership of South Carolina . The Governor of North Carolina , celebrated the incoming year by ...
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... mean time , the appointment of Mr. Holt of Kentucky , as Sec . of War , and Mr. Dix of New York , as Sec . of the Trea- sury , in the places of Thompson and Floyd , arrested the goy- ernment in its downward rush , infused some little ...
... mean time , the appointment of Mr. Holt of Kentucky , as Sec . of War , and Mr. Dix of New York , as Sec . of the Trea- sury , in the places of Thompson and Floyd , arrested the goy- ernment in its downward rush , infused some little ...
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... means to obtain redress , as we did previous to our revolt against the mother country , even , as we asserted " prostrating ourselves at the foot of the throne " in vain appeals , they stand convicted of a crime too heinous to be ...
... means to obtain redress , as we did previous to our revolt against the mother country , even , as we asserted " prostrating ourselves at the foot of the throne " in vain appeals , they stand convicted of a crime too heinous to be ...
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