The History of the Civil War in the United States: Its Cause, Origin, Progress and Conclusion. Containing Full, Impartial and Graphic Descriptions of the Various Military and Naval Engagements, with the Heroic Deeds Achieved by Armies and Individuals, Touching Scenes and Incidents in the Camp, the Cabin, the Field and the Hospital. And Biographical Sketches of Its Heroes |
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... assault resumed on the 28th - Des- perate fighting - The first line of works carried - Sherman orders a general charge The Federals repulsed and defeated - Terrible slaughter -- The Union Army withdrawn - General Sherman superseded by M ...
... assault resumed on the 28th - Des- perate fighting - The first line of works carried - Sherman orders a general charge The Federals repulsed and defeated - Terrible slaughter -- The Union Army withdrawn - General Sherman superseded by M ...
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... Assault by Pickett's Division - Terrible slaughter - Longstreet's attack on Round Top - This too repulsed - The ... assault of the twenty - seventh of May - The brilliant attack of General Weitzel's Division - Partial success of the ...
... Assault by Pickett's Division - Terrible slaughter - Longstreet's attack on Round Top - This too repulsed - The ... assault of the twenty - seventh of May - The brilliant attack of General Weitzel's Division - Partial success of the ...
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... assault on the centre by the Fourth Corps - Difficulties of the attack - Capture of the Crest and Fort Bragg - Flight of the enemy - Pursuit to Ringgold - Fight at Ringgold Gap- Sherman marches to Knoxville and raises the siege - Battle ...
... assault on the centre by the Fourth Corps - Difficulties of the attack - Capture of the Crest and Fort Bragg - Flight of the enemy - Pursuit to Ringgold - Fight at Ringgold Gap- Sherman marches to Knoxville and raises the siege - Battle ...
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... Assault and capture of Fort McAllister by Hazen's Division - Communication opened with the Fleet - Sherman summons Hardee to surrender , but he declines - Preparations for a siege of the City - Hardee evacuates it and escapes to ...
... Assault and capture of Fort McAllister by Hazen's Division - Communication opened with the Fleet - Sherman summons Hardee to surrender , but he declines - Preparations for a siege of the City - Hardee evacuates it and escapes to ...
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... assault , closed . But the fort was not yet reduced . During the night Major Anderson ordered his men to suspend their fire . Not so the assailants . Perfectly aware that after the third day the commandant must evacuate for want of ...
... assault , closed . But the fort was not yet reduced . During the night Major Anderson ordered his men to suspend their fire . Not so the assailants . Perfectly aware that after the third day the commandant must evacuate for want of ...
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Page 382 - The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Page 382 - Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Page 39 - Provided, That as an express and fundamental condition to, the acquisition of any territory from the Republic of Mexico by the United States, by virtue of any treaty which may be negotiated between them, and to the use by the Executive of the moneys herein appropriated, neither Slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory, except for crime, whereof the party shall first be duly convicted.
Page 57 - We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, that the ordinance adopted by us in convention, on the 23d day of May, in the year of our Lord 1788, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America...
Page 382 - We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last, best hope of earth. Other means may succeed ; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just — a way which if followed the world will forever applaud and God must forever bless.
Page 57 - Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all Acts and parts of Acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying the amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed ; and that the Union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the United States of America, is hereby dissolved.
Page 43 - They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations; and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit.
Page 41 - ... it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Page 36 - I HAVE, Senators, believed from the first that the agitation of the subject of slavery would, if not prevented by some timely and effective measure, end in disunion. Entertaining this opinion, I have, on all proper occasions, endeavored to call the attention of both the two great parties which divide the country to adopt some measure to prevent so great a disaster, but without success. The agitation has been permitted to proceed with almost no attempt...
Page 412 - Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Ann, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth), and which excepted parts are for the present left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued. And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare...