The United States of America: A Pictorial History of the American Nation from the Earliest Discoveries and Settlements to the Present Time, Volume 3Imperial Publishing Company, 1906 - United States |
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A. P. Hill advance Alabama April arms army of Northern artillery assailed assault Atlanta attack bank batteries battle Beauregard Bragg bridges brigade Burnside campaign Captain captured Carolina cavalry Charleston Chattanooga Colonel Confederacy confederate army corps Court House crossed D. H. Hill defense destroyed division enemy EVENTS OF 1863 federals fight fire flank fleet followed force Fort Sumter Fort Wagner front garrison Grant gun-boats guns Harper's Ferry Hill Hooker hundred infantry intrenchments iron-clads Jackson Johnston killed latter Lee's Longstreet McClellan Meade Merrimac miles military Mississippi morning movement night North Northern Virginia officers opened ordered passed Petersburg position Potomac President Lincoln prisoners railway Rapidan re-enforcements reached rear retreat Richmond river road Rosecrans sent Shenandoah Shenandoah Valley Sheridan Sherman side soldiers soon southern steamer Stonewall Jackson stream Sumter surrender Tennessee thousand took troops union army United vessels Vicksburg Washington wounded
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Page 330 - We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We are met to dedicate a portion of it as the final resting-place of those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. " But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow, this ground.
Page 330 - It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated, here, to the unfinished work that they have thus far so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us; that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to...
Page 304 - God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said that "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 366 - I understand, according to the old adage, that an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure...
Page 315 - GENERAL: I have received your note of this date. Though not entertaining the opinion you express on the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the army of Northern Virginia, I reciprocate your desire to avoid useless effusion of blood, and therefore, before considering your proposition, ask the terms you will offer on condition of its surrender.
Page 318 - The arms, artillery, and public property to be parked and stacked, and turned over to the officers appointed by me to receive them. This will not embrace the side-arms of the officers, nor their private horses or baggage.
Page 318 - The officers to give their individual paroles not to take up arms against the Government of the United States until properly exchanged ; and each company or regimental commander sign a like parole for the men of their commands.
Page 112 - 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 the adversary, and to beat him when found, whose policy has been attack and not defence.
Page 328 - And now the martyr is moving in triumphal march, . mightier than when alive. The nation rises up at every stage of his coming. Cities and States are his pallbearers, and the cannon beats the hours with solemn progression. Dead, dead, dead, he yet speaketh.
Page 147 - General McLaws, with his own division and that of General RH Anderson, will follow General Longstreet; on reaching Middletown he will take the route to Harper's Ferry, and by Friday morning possess himself of the Maryland Heights and endeavor to capture the enemy at Harper's Ferry and vicinity.