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... ; the editors cannot but feel that , on many points of interest , their work is lacking in those details essential to historical completeness , which time alone can supply . The events treated are , in some instances , perhaps.
... ; the editors cannot but feel that , on many points of interest , their work is lacking in those details essential to historical completeness , which time alone can supply . The events treated are , in some instances , perhaps.
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... supply their place . Such lunging , cutting , and slashing— enough to dispose of at least a thousand British a day ; but the mail or recitation soon destroys the illusion with ' It's all a hoax ; ' or , ' Sir , you've been neglecting ...
... supply their place . Such lunging , cutting , and slashing— enough to dispose of at least a thousand British a day ; but the mail or recitation soon destroys the illusion with ' It's all a hoax ; ' or , ' Sir , you've been neglecting ...
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... supplies ; the quotas of the Southern States under the militia laws were anticipated , in some cases by several years ; and he caused large sales of arms to be secretly made , at low prices , to the agents of those States . The pro ...
... supplies ; the quotas of the Southern States under the militia laws were anticipated , in some cases by several years ; and he caused large sales of arms to be secretly made , at low prices , to the agents of those States . The pro ...
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... supply the demand . Wagons intended for General McDowell's army went to General Patterson's , and General McDowell's army must therefore wait . The District of Columbia was embraced in a separate military department , called the ...
... supply the demand . Wagons intended for General McDowell's army went to General Patterson's , and General McDowell's army must therefore wait . The District of Columbia was embraced in a separate military department , called the ...
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... supplies and reinforcements from that point . He set to work with a characteristic energy that must have found room enough to expand itself , for troops were hard to move in those days , and supplies , owing to the greenness of some and ...
... supplies and reinforcements from that point . He set to work with a characteristic energy that must have found room enough to expand itself , for troops were hard to move in those days , and supplies , owing to the greenness of some and ...
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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.