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... Land Forces - Proclamations - Timidity and Weakness of the Government - Retirement of Scott from Public Life - McClellan Takes his Place - Public Confidence in him - Grand Review of the Army of the Potomac . 185 CHAPTER XIV . NOVEMBER ...
... Land Forces - Proclamations - Timidity and Weakness of the Government - Retirement of Scott from Public Life - McClellan Takes his Place - Public Confidence in him - Grand Review of the Army of the Potomac . 185 CHAPTER XIV . NOVEMBER ...
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... and communion split asunder , and ministers and people who had wept at the same altar , suddenly began to pray each for the other's discomfiture ; and the happiest land the sun ever * 32 CAUSES OF THE REBELLION . shone upon became.
... and communion split asunder , and ministers and people who had wept at the same altar , suddenly began to pray each for the other's discomfiture ; and the happiest land the sun ever * 32 CAUSES OF THE REBELLION . shone upon became.
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... land forces , quietly withdrew on the night of the 28th of December , and took possession of fort Sumter , situated on an island near by , and considered well nigh impregnable . Great fears before this had been entertained for his ...
... land forces , quietly withdrew on the night of the 28th of December , and took possession of fort Sumter , situated on an island near by , and considered well nigh impregnable . Great fears before this had been entertained for his ...
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... land , will yet swell the chorus of the Union , when again touched , as surely they will be , by the better angels of our nature , " struck a chord of sympathy in every heart . Still , kind and appealing as these words were , they ...
... land , will yet swell the chorus of the Union , when again touched , as surely they will be , by the better angels of our nature , " struck a chord of sympathy in every heart . Still , kind and appealing as these words were , they ...
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... land in fraternal blood , and unsettle the civilized world . At half- past four o'clock , before the full dawn could reveal to them . the flag under whose folds they had so long lived in peace and prosperity , the first shot was fired ...
... land in fraternal blood , and unsettle the civilized world . At half- past four o'clock , before the full dawn could reveal to them . the flag under whose folds they had so long lived in peace and prosperity , the first shot was fired ...
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