Union-disunion-reunion: Three Decades of Federal Legislation. 1855 to 1885 |
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... COMMAND HIS DIFFICULTIES IN FRONT - ―― - - EMBARRASSMENTS AT WASHINGTON - CHANGE OF BASE TO THE JAMES RIVER NORFOLK OCCUPIED THE AUTHOR'S PERSONAL OBSERVATIONS — HON . JOHN S. MILLSON AT HOME - THE BIG RAM Mc- " VIRGINIA " BLOWN UP ...
... COMMAND HIS DIFFICULTIES IN FRONT - ―― - - EMBARRASSMENTS AT WASHINGTON - CHANGE OF BASE TO THE JAMES RIVER NORFOLK OCCUPIED THE AUTHOR'S PERSONAL OBSERVATIONS — HON . JOHN S. MILLSON AT HOME - THE BIG RAM Mc- " VIRGINIA " BLOWN UP ...
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... COMMAND - LEE MOVES NORTH - A BOLD DESIGN ON THE CAPITAL AND NORTHERN CITIES GETTYSBURG A WATERLOO — OTHER BATTLES IN TENNESSEE SHERMAN MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA ATLANTA FALLS - - THE CAMPAIGN OF 1864 - '65 - THE TENDENCY TO CONCENTRATE ...
... COMMAND - LEE MOVES NORTH - A BOLD DESIGN ON THE CAPITAL AND NORTHERN CITIES GETTYSBURG A WATERLOO — OTHER BATTLES IN TENNESSEE SHERMAN MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA ATLANTA FALLS - - THE CAMPAIGN OF 1864 - '65 - THE TENDENCY TO CONCENTRATE ...
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... COMMAND OF DISTRICT - GENERAL CANBY SUCCEEDS HIM - RE- MOVALS FROM CIVIL OFFICE ELECTION OF GOVERNOR WALKER - ― - VIRGINIA RECONSTRUCTED - FINANCIAL STATEMENTS , CHAPTER XXVIII . PAGES 480-493 RECONSTRUCTION IN THE SECOND MILITARY ...
... COMMAND OF DISTRICT - GENERAL CANBY SUCCEEDS HIM - RE- MOVALS FROM CIVIL OFFICE ELECTION OF GOVERNOR WALKER - ― - VIRGINIA RECONSTRUCTED - FINANCIAL STATEMENTS , CHAPTER XXVIII . PAGES 480-493 RECONSTRUCTION IN THE SECOND MILITARY ...
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... COMMAND · -RE - INSTATEMENT OF STATE OFFICIALS - MEETING OF THE STATE CONVENTION THE NEW CONSTITUTION RATIFIED BY THE PEOPLE - GENERAL HANCOCK'S REMOVAL OF OFFICIALS NOT SUSTAINED BY GENERAL GRANT- GENERAL HANCOCK RE- LIEVED AT HIS OWN ...
... COMMAND · -RE - INSTATEMENT OF STATE OFFICIALS - MEETING OF THE STATE CONVENTION THE NEW CONSTITUTION RATIFIED BY THE PEOPLE - GENERAL HANCOCK'S REMOVAL OF OFFICIALS NOT SUSTAINED BY GENERAL GRANT- GENERAL HANCOCK RE- LIEVED AT HIS OWN ...
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... - general of that state , was enhanced by the conspicuous ability with which he had enforced his views in the Federal Senate . Small in person , keen of eye , with a voice full of music , over which he had rare command.
... - general of that state , was enhanced by the conspicuous ability with which he had enforced his views in the Federal Senate . Small in person , keen of eye , with a voice full of music , over which he had rare command.
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Page 242 - Go through, go through the gates ; prepare ye the way of the people ; cast up, cast up the highway ; gather out the stones ; lift up a standard for the people.
Page 340 - I will, in like manner, abide by and faithfully support all acts of congress passed during the existing rebellion with reference to slaves, so long and so far as not repealed, modified, or held void by congress, or by decision of the supreme court...
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Page 103 - ... that the several states •who formed that Instrument being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of the infraction ; and that a nullification by those sovereignties of all unauthorized acts done under color of that instrument is the rightful remedy...
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Page 108 - Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of the general assembly of this State ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the " United States of America,