Lectures on the Growth and Development of the United States, Volume 9Amer. Educational Alliance, 1915 - United States |
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... miles from Liverpool . Even then the most ordinary energy on the part of the London and Liver- pool authorities would have effected her apprehension , but so slowly did the British authorities move that the Alabama was on the high seas ...
... miles from Liverpool . Even then the most ordinary energy on the part of the London and Liver- pool authorities would have effected her apprehension , but so slowly did the British authorities move that the Alabama was on the high seas ...
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... miles from the French coast the Kear- sarge turned short about and steered directly for the Alabama with the in ... mile opened her full broadside on the Kearsarge . Broadsides were fired in rapid suc- cession without injuring the Union ...
... miles from the French coast the Kear- sarge turned short about and steered directly for the Alabama with the in ... mile opened her full broadside on the Kearsarge . Broadsides were fired in rapid suc- cession without injuring the Union ...
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... miles apart , the ship channel closely skirting Mobile Point . The latter was defended by Fort Mor- gan and Dauphin Island by Fort Gaines . In August of 1864 Fort Gaines had 30 guns and Fort Morgan over 40 guns , besides a mortar ...
... miles apart , the ship channel closely skirting Mobile Point . The latter was defended by Fort Mor- gan and Dauphin Island by Fort Gaines . In August of 1864 Fort Gaines had 30 guns and Fort Morgan over 40 guns , besides a mortar ...
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... miles northeast of the city . The latter was on high ground and nearly three miles in ex- tent , with nine well - built redoubts armed with 40 guns . The garrison consisted of General F. M. Cockrell's divisions of veteran troops and ...
... miles northeast of the city . The latter was on high ground and nearly three miles in ex- tent , with nine well - built redoubts armed with 40 guns . The garrison consisted of General F. M. Cockrell's divisions of veteran troops and ...
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... miles reached Fort Blakely on April 1. On the 2d the investment was begun . Gradual approaches were made ac- companied by heavy and constant skirmishing and by the 8th Steele had portions of his advanced lines within 450 to 600 yards of ...
... miles reached Fort Blakely on April 1. On the 2d the investment was begun . Gradual approaches were made ac- companied by heavy and constant skirmishing and by the 8th Steele had portions of his advanced lines within 450 to 600 yards of ...
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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.
Page 1 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
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.
Page 68 - 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 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...