Lectures on the Growth and Development of the United States, Volume 9Amer. Educational Alliance, 1915 - United States |
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... DEVELOPMENT OF THE UNITED STATES Edited by EDWIN WILEY , M.A. , Ph.D. of the Library of Congress and IRVING E. RINES ILLUSTRATED AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE WASHINGTON , D. C. LATIONS 3 X 286 SERIES TWELVE LECTURE FIFTY - NINE.
... DEVELOPMENT OF THE UNITED STATES Edited by EDWIN WILEY , M.A. , Ph.D. of the Library of Congress and IRVING E. RINES ILLUSTRATED AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE WASHINGTON , D. C. LATIONS 3 X 286 SERIES TWELVE LECTURE FIFTY - NINE.
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... Washington news- papers , whereupon Chase wrote to Lincoln stating that he had no knowl- edge of the existence of the letter be- fore seeing it in print , and frankly ex- plaining his connection with the Pome- roy committee . He thought ...
... Washington news- papers , whereupon Chase wrote to Lincoln stating that he had no knowl- edge of the existence of the letter be- fore seeing it in print , and frankly ex- plaining his connection with the Pome- roy committee . He thought ...
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Edwin Wiley. SIGEL'S ADVANCE TO NEW MARKET . CHAPTER XL . 1864 . EARLY'S WASHINGTON CAMPAIGN GRANT'S PETERSBURG CAMPAIGN . Sigel's defeat at New Market The battles of Cloyd's Mountain and Piedmont Early's advance - The engagement at ...
Edwin Wiley. SIGEL'S ADVANCE TO NEW MARKET . CHAPTER XL . 1864 . EARLY'S WASHINGTON CAMPAIGN GRANT'S PETERSBURG CAMPAIGN . Sigel's defeat at New Market The battles of Cloyd's Mountain and Piedmont Early's advance - The engagement at ...
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... Washington . On June 23 , after driving Hunter away from Lynchburg , Early began his return * Official Records , vol . xxxviii .; Battles and Leaders , vol . iv . , pp . 151 , 485-486 ; Pond , The Shenandoah Valley , p . 22 et seq . See ...
... Washington . On June 23 , after driving Hunter away from Lynchburg , Early began his return * Official Records , vol . xxxviii .; Battles and Leaders , vol . iv . , pp . 151 , 485-486 ; Pond , The Shenandoah Valley , p . 22 et seq . See ...
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... WASHINGTON . 23 march and reached Staunton on the 27th . * He had been joined by General Breckinridge's division of infantry and McCausland's brigade of cavalry . On June 29 he sent the greater part of his cavalry to destroy the bridges ...
... WASHINGTON . 23 march and reached Staunton on the 27th . * He had been joined by General Breckinridge's division of infantry and McCausland's brigade of cavalry . On June 29 he sent the greater part of his cavalry to destroy the bridges ...
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Page 120 - GENERAL: — I have received your note of this day. Though not entertaining the opinion you express on the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia...
Page 120 - I feel that it is so, and regard it as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility of any further effusion of blood by asking of you the surrender of that portion of the Confederate States army known as the Army of Northern Virginia.
Page 123 - I propose to receive the surrender of the Army of Northern 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.
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Page 316 - It proves incontestably that the judiciary is beyond comparison the weakest of the three departments of power;* that it can never attack with success either of the other two; and that all possible care is requisite to enable it to defend itself against their attacks.
Page 86 - States have ever been out of the Union, than with it. Finding themselves safely at home, it would be utterly immaterial whether they had ever been abroad. Let us all join in doing the acts necessary to restoring the proper practical relations between these States and the Union, and each forever after innocently indulge his own opinion whether in doing the acts he brought the States from without into the Union, or only gave them proper assistance, they never having been out of it.
Page 110 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and orphans, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and a lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
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Page 358 - The movements in the same direction, more extensive, though less definite, in Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee, should not be overlooked. But Maryland presents the example of complete success. Maryland is secure to liberty and union for all the future. The genius of rebellion will no more claim Maryland. Like another foul spirit, being driven out, it may seek to tear her, but it will woo her no more.
Page 179 - For it has been said, all that a man hath will he give for his life; and while all contribute of their substance, the soldier puts his life at stake, and often yields it up in his country's cause. The highest merit, then, is due to the soldier. In this extraordinary war...