The Civil War and the Constitution 1859-1865, Vol. 2It could be argued that the Civil War was the most influential event in the history of the United States. In The Civil War and the Constitution, political scientist John W. Burgess explores the politics, people, and sentiments of this time, and closely examines the constitutional issues of the Civil War. Volume 2 of this two-volume work covers battles in New Orleans, Kentucky, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Atlanta, and Charleston, as well as Sherman's march through Georgia. The Emancipation Proclamation is discussed in great depth, along with constitutional issues created by the military events of 1862 and 1863. JOHN W. BURGESS, Ph.D., LL.D., was a professor of political science and constitutional law and dean of the faculty of political science at Columbia University in New York. |
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... command of Captain David G. Farra- gut , and the land force , consisting of about twelve thou- sand New Englanders was recruited and led by General B. F. Butler . Farragut's fleet sailed in the first days of February , and the ...
... command of Captain David G. Farra- gut , and the land force , consisting of about twelve thou- sand New Englanders was recruited and led by General B. F. Butler . Farragut's fleet sailed in the first days of February , and the ...
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... command of Lieutenant John Worden , to the Potomac . Worden had got into the waters of the Chesapeake in the afternoon of the 8th , in time to hear the firing , and the pilot whom he took up told him something of the disaster to the ...
... command of Lieutenant John Worden , to the Potomac . Worden had got into the waters of the Chesapeake in the afternoon of the 8th , in time to hear the firing , and the pilot whom he took up told him something of the disaster to the ...
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... command of General J. B. Magruder . Magruder placed them so skilfully that McClellan thought they were the skirmish line of a large army hidden in the forests behind . moment McClellan had not heard of the detention of McDowell's corps ...
... command of General J. B. Magruder . Magruder placed them so skilfully that McClellan thought they were the skirmish line of a large army hidden in the forests behind . moment McClellan had not heard of the detention of McDowell's corps ...
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... command of the corps , and it was composed of the divisions of McCall , Morell and Sykes . About one o'clock in the afternoon , the head of Hill's advancing columns struck the Federal line , and the bloody battle of Gaines's Mill began ...
... command of the corps , and it was composed of the divisions of McCall , Morell and Sykes . About one o'clock in the afternoon , the head of Hill's advancing columns struck the Federal line , and the bloody battle of Gaines's Mill began ...
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... command of Reno , at Kelly's Ford , from which position he expected to keep open his communications with Aquia Creek . The centre , under McDowell , was located around Rappahannock Station in front of the railroad bridges across the ...
... command of Reno , at Kelly's Ford , from which position he expected to keep open his communications with Aquia Creek . The centre , under McDowell , was located around Rappahannock Station in front of the railroad bridges across the ...
Contents
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CHAPTER XVI | 72 |
CHAPTER XVII | 89 |
CHAPTER XVIII | 97 |
PAGE | 106 |
CHAPTER XXVI | 180 |
CHAPTER XXVII | 206 |
INTERPRETATION OF THE CONSTITUTION UNDER THE STRESS | 214 |
CHAPTER XXIX | 234 |
CHAPTER XXX | 247 |
CHAPTER XXXI | 261 |
THE LAST BLOWS | 271 |
CHAPTER XXXIII | 288 |
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Page 100 - That the Executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the states and parts of states, if any, in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the United States; and the fact that any state, or the people thereof, shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States, by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Page 99 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free...
Page 116 - And I further declare and make known that such persons, of suitable condition, will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service.
Page 87 - That, on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever, free...
Page 80 - Resolved, That the United States ought to cooperate with any State which may adopt gradual abolishment of slavery, giving to such State pecuniary aid, to be used by such State in its discretion, to compensate for the inconveniences, public and private, produced by such change of system.
Page 116 - ... the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof respectively are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit: "Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana (except the parishes of St.
Page 115 - Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority...
Page 99 - I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States of America, and Commander-in-chief of the Army and Navy thereof, do hereby proclaim and declare that hereafter, as heretofore, the war will be • prosecuted for the object of practically restoring the constitutional relation between the United States and each of the states, and the people thereof, in which that relation is, or may be, suspended or disturbed.
Page 116 - Martin, and Orleans, including the city of New Orleans), Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia (except the fortyeight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of...