Life of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States: Containing His Early History and Political Career; Together with the Speeches, Messages, Proclamations and Other Official Documents Illustrative of His Eventful Administration |
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... Cabinet - Commis sioners from Montgomery - Extracts from A. H. Stephens ' Speech - Virginia Commis sioners - Fall of Fort Sumter ............. ........................ 90 CHAPTER VII . PREPARING FOR WAR . Effects of Sumter's ( 9 )
... Cabinet - Commis sioners from Montgomery - Extracts from A. H. Stephens ' Speech - Virginia Commis sioners - Fall of Fort Sumter ............. ........................ 90 CHAPTER VII . PREPARING FOR WAR . Effects of Sumter's ( 9 )
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... Fort Sumter , and Mississippi assumes to put herself out of the Union . Alabama , Florida , and Georgia are not laggard ; nor are Texas and Louisiana found wanting . Cabinet officers from the slave States either resigned , after having ...
... Fort Sumter , and Mississippi assumes to put herself out of the Union . Alabama , Florida , and Georgia are not laggard ; nor are Texas and Louisiana found wanting . Cabinet officers from the slave States either resigned , after having ...
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... Fort Sumter . A FEW days after his arrival in Washington , the President elect was waited upon by the Mayor and other municipal au- thorities , welcoming him the city , to whom he made the fol- lowing reply : " Mr. MAYOR : I thank you ...
... Fort Sumter . A FEW days after his arrival in Washington , the President elect was waited upon by the Mayor and other municipal au- thorities , welcoming him the city , to whom he made the fol- lowing reply : " Mr. MAYOR : I thank you ...
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... Fort Sumter , I shall hold myself at liberty to repossess it , if I can , like places which had been seized before the Government was devolved upon me , and in any event I shall , to the best of my ability , repel force by force . In ...
... Fort Sumter , I shall hold myself at liberty to repossess it , if I can , like places which had been seized before the Government was devolved upon me , and in any event I shall , to the best of my ability , repel force by force . In ...
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... Forts Pickens , Taylor and Jefferson , on and near the Florida coast , and Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor , South Carolina . The forts thus seized had been put in improved condition , new ones had been built , and armed forces . had ...
... Forts Pickens , Taylor and Jefferson , on and near the Florida coast , and Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor , South Carolina . The forts thus seized had been put in improved condition , new ones had been built , and armed forces . had ...
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