Battle-fields of the South: From Bull Run to Fredericksburg; with Sketches of Confederate Commanders, and Gossip of the Camps, Volume 1Smith, Elder and Company, 1863 - United States |
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advance ammunition approach arms army arrived artillery attack Banks batteries battle Beauregard began Bluff brigade camp cannon captain captured cavalry Centreville Colonel command companies Confederate Corinth crossed D. H. Hill distance dols Edward's Ferry enemy enemy's engaged Evans fall back Federal fell field fight fire flank force Ford fortifications Fremont front ground guard gunboats guns halted Hampton's Legion Harper's Ferry heavy hill horses hour hundred immense infantry Jackson James River killed Leesburg Longstreet Loudon County M'Clellan M'Dowell Manassas marched Maryland ment miles morning move movements Nathan Evans night North Northern officers passed pickets Poolesville position Potomac Price prisoners rear rebels regiment reinforcements retired retreat Richmond rifles river road seemed sent shell Shenandoah Shenandoah Valley shot skirmishing soldiers South Southern supplies thousands town troops Valley Virginia waggons whole Winchester woods wounded Yankee York River Yorktown
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Page xviii - Your conduct ranks you among the celebrated armies of history. No one will now question that each of you may always with pride say, ' I belong to the Army of the Potomac.
Page xxxiv - Believing that the People of Maryland possessed 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 independence and sovereignty to your State.
Page iv - State to interpose its authority for their protection in the manner best calculated to secure that end. When emergencies occur which are either beyond the reach of the judicial tribunals, or too pressing to admit of the delay incident to their forms, States which have no common umpire must be their own judges, and execute their own decisions.
Page xviii - You have saved all your material, all your trains and all your guns, except a few lost in battle, taking in return guns and colors from the enemy.
Page xxxiv - Marylander, to whom in better days no citizen appealed for right in vain, was treated with scorn and contempt; the government of your chief city has been usurped by armed strangers; your legislature has been dissolved by the unlawful arrest of its members; freedom of the press and of speech...
Page xxii - To the Officers and Soldiers of the Army of Virginia: " By special assignment of the President of the United States, I have assumed command of this army. I have spent two weeks in learning your whereabouts, your condition, and your wants; in preparing you for active operations, and in placing you in positions from which you can act promptly and to the purpose. " I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies —from an army whose business it has been to seek...
Page xxxiv - 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 xx - Well may it be said of you that you have " done enough for glory ;" but duty to a suffering country and to the cause of constitutional liberty claims from you yet further effort. Let it be your pride to relax in nothing which can promote your future efficiency ; your one great object being to drive the invader from your soil, and, carrying your standards beyond the outer boundaries of the Confederacy, to wring from an unscrupulous foe the recognition of your birthright, community, and independence.
Page xxiv - The battle was fought on the identical battle-field of Bull Run, which greatly increased the enthusiasm of our men. The news has just reached me from the front, that the enemy is retreating towards the mountains.
Page xviii - You have reached the new base complete in organization and unimpaired in spirit. The enemy may at any time attack you. We are prepared to meet them. I have personally established your lines. Let them come, and we will convert their repulse into a final defeat. Your government is strengthening you with the resources of a great people. On this...