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... ORGANIZING . - TREATMENT OF THE INHABITANTS 147 CHAPTER XIII . THE MERIDIAN RAID . —A NEW COMMAND . — POLK'S DEFEAT . - BANKS'S EXPE- DITION TO RED RIVER . - GRANT'S LETTER TO SHERMAN UPON HIS PROMOTION 159 CHAPTER XIV . THE ARMY OF THE ...
... ORGANIZING . - TREATMENT OF THE INHABITANTS 147 CHAPTER XIII . THE MERIDIAN RAID . —A NEW COMMAND . — POLK'S DEFEAT . - BANKS'S EXPE- DITION TO RED RIVER . - GRANT'S LETTER TO SHERMAN UPON HIS PROMOTION 159 CHAPTER XIV . THE ARMY OF THE ...
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... organize them into small communities , and require them to defend themselves for the future . Thus the army could be withdrawn from Florida , with the excep- tion of small garrisons at the more important permanent posts . Here is a view ...
... organize them into small communities , and require them to defend themselves for the future . Thus the army could be withdrawn from Florida , with the excep- tion of small garrisons at the more important permanent posts . Here is a view ...
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... organizing the whole military force of the country , to crush the rebellion in its infancy . But the authorities still believed there would be no fight , that the rebellion would succumb at the sight of the power of the Union . When the ...
... organizing the whole military force of the country , to crush the rebellion in its infancy . But the authorities still believed there would be no fight , that the rebellion would succumb at the sight of the power of the Union . When the ...
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... organized in eight brigades , with twenty - nine guns , encamped · and intrenched at Manassas Junction , and commanded by General Gustave T. Beauregard . They had outposts at Fair- fax Courthouse , and at Centreville , seven miles from ...
... organized in eight brigades , with twenty - nine guns , encamped · and intrenched at Manassas Junction , and commanded by General Gustave T. Beauregard . They had outposts at Fair- fax Courthouse , and at Centreville , seven miles from ...
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... organized that he can believe that , can believe any thing . And the Southern people were carefully taught to believe it . It followed , of course , that while those States which chose to " secede " could not rightfully be " coerced ...
... organized that he can believe that , can believe any thing . And the Southern people were carefully taught to believe it . It followed , of course , that while those States which chose to " secede " could not rightfully be " coerced ...
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Page 403 - Virginia on the following terms, to wit: Rolls of all the officers and men to be made in duplicate, one copy to be given to an officer to be designated by me, the other to be retained by such officer or officers as you may designate.
Page 418 - President directs me to say to you that he wishes you to have no conference with General Lee, unless it be for the capitulation of General Lee's army, or on some minor and purely military matter. He instructs me to say that you are not to decide, discuss, or confer upon any political question. Such questions the President holds in his own hands, and will submit them to no military conferences or conventions.
Page 166 - You are now Washington's legitimate successor, and occupy a position of almost dangerous elevation; but if you can continue as heretofore to be yourself, simple, honest, and unpretending, you will enjoy through life the respect and love of friends, and the homage of millions of human beings...
Page 343 - I disclaim on the part of my army any agency in this fire, but, on the contrary, claim that we saved what of Columbia remains unconsumed. And, without hesitation, I charge General Wade Hampton with having burned his own city of Columbia, not with a malicious intent, or as the manifestation of a silly "Roman stoicism," but from folly and want of sense in filling it with lint, cotton, and tinder.
Page 297 - I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton.
Page 266 - The army will forage liberally on the country during the march. To this end, each brigade commander will organize a good and sufficient foraging party, under the command of one or more discreet officers, who will gather near the route...
Page 324 - They can at any moment have peace simply by laying down their arms and submitting to -the national authority under the Constitution.
Page 224 - GENTLEMEN : I have your letter of the llth, in the nature of a petition to revoke my orders removing all the inhabitants from Atlanta. I have read it carefully, and give full credit to your statements of the distress that will be occasioned by it, and yet shall not revoke my orders, simply because my orders are not designed to meet the humanities of the case...
Page 397 - 3. The recognition, by the Executive of the United States of the several State governments, on their officers and legislatures taking the oath prescribed by the Constitution of the United States...
Page 506 - I admit my folly in embracing in a military convention any civil matters; but, unfortunately, such is the nature of our situation that they seem inextricably united, and I understood from you at Savannah that the financial state of the country demanded military success, and would warrant a little bending to policy.