Drum-beat of the Nation: The First Period of the War of the Rebellion from Its Outbreak to the Close of 1862, Volume 4 |
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... flag , attaining an exalted position among the nations , and looking forward to a great and unexampled destiny . In 1860 thirty - three States composed the United States of America . Of these , fifteen permitted the holding of slaves ...
... flag , attaining an exalted position among the nations , and looking forward to a great and unexampled destiny . In 1860 thirty - three States composed the United States of America . Of these , fifteen permitted the holding of slaves ...
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... Flag - staff of Fort Sumter .... Frontispiece Henry Clay .. John C. Calhoun . General McClellan .. 82 Map of Rich Mountain .. 83 7 General Lyon . 84 9 Map of Bull Run .. 87 Andrew Jackson . Daniel Webster 11 General McDowell 88 13 ...
... Flag - staff of Fort Sumter .... Frontispiece Henry Clay .. John C. Calhoun . General McClellan .. 82 Map of Rich Mountain .. 83 7 General Lyon . 84 9 Map of Bull Run .. 87 Andrew Jackson . Daniel Webster 11 General McDowell 88 13 ...
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... flag of the country . The successes of the American navy , and the victories along the Canadian frontier and at New Orleans , made the United States a nation . Although the war was unpopular in the Northern States , though a convention ...
... flag of the country . The successes of the American navy , and the victories along the Canadian frontier and at New Orleans , made the United States a nation . Although the war was unpopular in the Northern States , though a convention ...
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... flag floated there was freedom for every man . Agita- tion had begun in the Northern States for the abolition of slavery in the territories over which Congress had jurisdiction , and in the District . of Columbia . Slaves were sold at ...
... flag floated there was freedom for every man . Agita- tion had begun in the Northern States for the abolition of slavery in the territories over which Congress had jurisdiction , and in the District . of Columbia . Slaves were sold at ...
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... flag was taken down from the State House in Columbia . " Never again shall it float in the free air of South Carolina , " said the great planters . One of the leading secessionists was Robert Barnwell Rhett . His true name was Smith ...
... flag was taken down from the State House in Columbia . " Never again shall it float in the free air of South Carolina , " said the great planters . One of the leading secessionists was Robert Barnwell Rhett . His true name was Smith ...
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A. P. Hill advance artillery attack bank batteries battle Beauregard boats Bragg bridge brigade Buell Bull Run Burnside cannon Captain captured cavalry Centreville Charleston Colonel command Commodore Confederacy Confederate army Confederate troops Corinth corps Creek cross D. H. Hill division Dorn drive east enemy eral fall back field fight flag flank fleet front ground gunboats guns Hagerstown Harper's Ferry Heintzelman hill horses hundred Jackson Jefferson Davis Johnston Kentucky land Longstreet Manassas McClellan miles Mississippi Missouri morning Mountain move Murfreesboro musketry Nashville negroes night o'clock officers Ohio opened fire pickets Pope position Potomac President Lincoln railroad rear regiments retreat Richmond river road Rosecrans secessionists sent Sharpsburg shells shouted side skirmishers slavery slaves soldiers solid shot South Carolina steamboats stream Sumner Tennessee thousand town turnpike Union army Union line Union troops vessels victory Virginia volley Washington woods
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Page 48 - Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vested in the marshals by law : now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, in virtue of the power in me vested by the Constitution and the laws, have thought fit to call forth, and hereby do call forth, the militia of the several States of the Union to the aggregate number of 75,000, in order to suppress said combinations and to cause the laws to be duly executed.
Page 376 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery.
Page 278 - THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND MORE. We are coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more, From Mississippi's winding stream and from New England's shore; We leave our ploughs and workshops, our wives and children dear, With hearts too full for utterance, with but a silent tear; We dare not look behind us, but steadfastly before; We are coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more.
Page 86 - A reckless and unprincipled tyrant has invaded your soil. Abraham Lincoln, regardless of all moral, legal, and constitutional restraints, has thrown his abolition hosts among you, who are murdering and imprisoning your citizens, confiscating and destroying your property, and committing other acts of violence and outrage too shocking and revolting to humanity to be enumerated. " All rules of civilized warfare are abandoned, and they proclaim by their acts, if not on their banners, that their war -cry...
Page 43 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 390 - Change positions with the enemy, and think you not he would break your communication with Richmond within the next twenty-four hours? You dread his going into Pennsylvania, but if he does so in full force, he gives up his communications to you absolutely, and you have nothing to do but to follow and ruin him. If he does so with less than full force, fall upon and beat what is left behind all the easier.
Page 170 - Lord, how beautiful was Thy day ! Every waft of the air Was a whisper of prayer, Or a dirge for the dead. Ho ! brave hearts that went down in the seas ! Ye are at peace in the troubled stream ; Ho ! brave land ! with hearts like these, Thy flag, that is rent in twain, Shall be one again, And without a seam ! SNOW-FLAKES.
Page 301 - Believing that the people of Maryland possess a spirit too lofty to submit to such a government, the people of the South have long wished to aid you in throwing off this foreign yoke, to enable you again to enjoy the inalienable rights of freemen, and restore the independence and sovereignty of your State.
Page 169 - As hail rebounds from a roof of slate, Rebounds our heavier hail From each iron scale Of the monster's hide. " Strike your flag! " the rebel cries, In his arrogant old plantation strain. " Never! " our gallant Morris replies; " It is better to sink than to yield!
Page 270 - If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persons in Washington. " You have done your best to sacrifice this army.