The History of the Civil War in America: Comprising a Full and Impartial Account of the Origin and Progress of the Rebellion, of the Various Naval and Military Engagements, of the Heroic Deeds Performed by Armies and Individuals, and of Touching Scenes in the Field, the Camp, the Hospital, and the Cabin, Volume 2H. Bill, 1866 - United States |
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... moved on towards Manassas . Its march was through scenes of solitude and the most dreary desolation . The fertile plains over which were once sprinkled Virginian homes , were now bare and desolate . The rebel army , often hungry and ...
... moved on towards Manassas . Its march was through scenes of solitude and the most dreary desolation . The fertile plains over which were once sprinkled Virginian homes , were now bare and desolate . The rebel army , often hungry and ...
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... moved over them by constructing plank roads . We have the right , we think , to say , that McClellan never intended to advance upon Centreville . His long - determined purpose was to make Washington safe by means of a strong garrison ...
... moved over them by constructing plank roads . We have the right , we think , to say , that McClellan never intended to advance upon Centreville . His long - determined purpose was to make Washington safe by means of a strong garrison ...
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... moved forward , and threw such a shower of shells into their redoubt that the rebels speedily retreated , carrying their guns with them . As the Stars and Stripes were unfurled over the captured ram- parts , the woods rang with the ...
... moved forward , and threw such a shower of shells into their redoubt that the rebels speedily retreated , carrying their guns with them . As the Stars and Stripes were unfurled over the captured ram- parts , the woods rang with the ...
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... moved , the rebels left spiked . A small quantity of ammunition was found in the magazines , but no commissary stores . The gigantic siege - works , to which the National forces had devoted the labors of a month , were hence- forth ...
... moved , the rebels left spiked . A small quantity of ammunition was found in the magazines , but no commissary stores . The gigantic siege - works , to which the National forces had devoted the labors of a month , were hence- forth ...
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... moved to the right . Both of these regiments were employed as skirmishers , to harass the gunners in Fort Magruder and the occupants of the rebel rifle - pits . Other regiments and batteries were moved forward with great skill and ...
... moved to the right . Both of these regiments were employed as skirmishers , to harass the gunners in Fort Magruder and the occupants of the rebel rifle - pits . Other regiments and batteries were moved forward with great skill and ...
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Page 33 - I suppose the whole force which has gone forward for you is with you by this time. And if so, I think it is the precise time for you to strike a blow. By delay the enemy will relatively gain upon you, — that is, he will gain faster by fortifications and reinforcements than you can by reinforcements alone.
Page 102 - I feel any misfortune to you and your army quite as keenly as you feel it yourself. If you have had a drawn battle, or a repulse, it is the price we pay for the enemy not being in Washington. We protected Washington, and the enemy concentrated on you.
Page 481 - 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 33 - You will do me the justice to remember, I always insisted that going down the bay in search of a field, instead of fighting at or near Manassas, was only shifting and not surmounting a difficulty ; that we would find the same enemy, and the same or equal intrenchments, at either place.
Page 44 - ... and ill-timed measure, as I honestly think and believe, shall be held to strict account for this suicidal act by the present generation, and probably cursed and execrated by posterity for all coming time...
Page 609 - No. //.—The three States of Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina, Comprising the Military Department of the South, having deliberately declared themselves no longer under the protection of the United States of America, and having taken up arms against the said United States, it becomes a military necessity to declare them under martial law This was accordingly done on the 25th day of April, 1862. Slavery and martial law in a free country are altogether incompatible; the persons in these three States...
Page 102 - If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persons in Washington. " You have done your best to sacrifice this army.
Page 513 - I disclaim on the part of my army any agency in this fire, but, on the contrary, claim that we saved what of Columbia remains unconsumed. And without hesitation I charge General Wade Hampton with having burned his own city of Columbia, not with a malicious intent or as the manifestation of a silly ' Roman stoicism,' but from folly, and want of sense, in filling it with lint, cotton, and tinder.
Page 33 - Blenker's division was withdrawn from you before you left here ; and you know the pressure under which I did it, and, as I thought, acquiesced in it — certainly not without reluctance. " After you left I ascertained that less than...
Page 17 - MY DEAR SIR : You and I have distinct and different plans for a movement of the Army of the Potomac — yours to be down the Chesapeake, up the Rappahannock to Urbana, and across land to the terminus of the railroad on the York River ; mine to move directly to a point on the railroad southwest of Manassas. If you will give me satisfactory answers to the following questions, I shall gladly yield my plan to yours.