The Great Invasion of 1863 ...: A Statement of the General Sickles Controversy, and Other Valuable Historic Papers |
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... Enemy Driven Back and Guns Recaptured - Efforts of the Enemy to Out - flank Sickles ' Left and Seize Little Round Top - Strange Oversight of the Federals in failing to perceive the Importance of this Key to the whole Field - Its Value ...
... Enemy Driven Back and Guns Recaptured - Efforts of the Enemy to Out - flank Sickles ' Left and Seize Little Round Top - Strange Oversight of the Federals in failing to perceive the Importance of this Key to the whole Field - Its Value ...
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... Enemy Gone - Pursuit by Kilpatrick - Comes up with the Confederate rear at Falling Waters , and after a Severe Engagement , the Enemy Suc- ceeds in Escaping after the Loss of General Pettigrew and many others Killed and Wounded , and a ...
... Enemy Gone - Pursuit by Kilpatrick - Comes up with the Confederate rear at Falling Waters , and after a Severe Engagement , the Enemy Suc- ceeds in Escaping after the Loss of General Pettigrew and many others Killed and Wounded , and a ...
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... enemy from a position ; they always fail to drive us . ' I reminded him , too , of Napoleon's advice to Mar- mont , to whom he said , when putting him at the head of an invading army , ' Select your ground , and make your enemy attack ...
... enemy from a position ; they always fail to drive us . ' I reminded him , too , of Napoleon's advice to Mar- mont , to whom he said , when putting him at the head of an invading army , ' Select your ground , and make your enemy attack ...
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... enemy's cruelties in conducting the war . " The whole explanation of the affair is that Mr. Stephens was fully empowered , in certain contingencies , to propose peace ; that President Davis had sent him on this extraordinary visit to ...
... enemy's cruelties in conducting the war . " The whole explanation of the affair is that Mr. Stephens was fully empowered , in certain contingencies , to propose peace ; that President Davis had sent him on this extraordinary visit to ...
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... enemy had crossed the Po- tomac , and the absence of the cavalry rendered it impossi- ble to obtain accurate information . " General Longstreet says : " The army moved forward as a man might walk over strange ground with his eyes shut ...
... enemy had crossed the Po- tomac , and the absence of the cavalry rendered it impossi- ble to obtain accurate information . " General Longstreet says : " The army moved forward as a man might walk over strange ground with his eyes shut ...
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A. P. Hill advance Annals Army of Northern artillery assault attack batteries battle battle of Gettysburg Big Round Top brigade Brigadier-General burg captured cavalry Cemetery Hill Chambersburg Colonel column command Confederate army crossed the Potomac Culp's Hill Culpeper direction division east Eleventh Corps Emmittsburg encamped enemy enemy's engagement eral Ewell federacy Federal army field Fifth Corps fire flank force front Funkstown Gettysburg Greencastle guns Hagerstown Harrisburg head-quarters Hill's Corps Hooker horses hundred infantry invasion Jenkins June Little Round Top Longstreet Major-General Maryland McConnellsburg Meade ment miles Milroy Monday morning moved movement night North Northern Virginia o'clock officers passed Pennsylvania Pickett's pike Pleasanton position rear regiment retreat river road Rodes Round Top says scout Second Corps Seminary Ridge sent Sickles Sixth Corps soldiers South Mountain Southern Stuart Third Corps thousand town troops Twelfth Corps valley wagons Washington Williamsport Winchester wounded
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Page 528 - 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 553 - The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were, that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature ; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically.
Page 554 - This idea, though not incorporated in the constitution, was the prevailing idea at the time. The constitution, it is true, secured every essential guarantee to the institution while it should last, and hence no argument can be justly used against the constitutional guarantees thus secured, because of the common sentiment of the day.
Page 520 - The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo; No more on life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few. On fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead.
Page 553 - African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically. It was an evil they knew not well how to deal with; but the general opinion of the men of that day was that, somehow or other, in the order of Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away. This idea, though not incorporated in the Constitution, was the prevailing idea at the time.
Page 531 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield 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.
Page 174 - The commanding general has observed with marked satisfaction the conduct of the troops on the march, and confidently anticipates results commensurate with the high spirit they have manifested. No troops could have displayed greater fortitude or better performed the arduous marches of the past ten days.
Page 554 - Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests upon the great truth, that the negro is not equal to the white man ; that slavery — subordination to the superior race — is his natural condition.
Page 175 - The Commanding General considers that no greater disgrace could befall the army, and through it our whole people, than the perpetration of the barbarous outrages upon the innocent and defenceless, and the wanton destruction of private property, that have marked the course of the enemy in our own country.
Page 365 - A shell tore up the little step of the Headquarters Cottage, and ripped bags of oats as with a knife. Another soon carried off one of its two pillars. Soon a spherical case burst opposite the open door — another ripped through the low garret. The remaining pillar went almost immediately to the howl of a fixed shot that Whitworth must have made.