The American Civil War, Volume 1Harper & brothers, 1913 - United States |
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A. P. Hill Abraham Lincoln advance Antietam attack Banks Battles and Leaders Beauregard became brigade Buell Bull Run campaign capture cavalry chap Chase Civil command Confederacy Confederate Congress Corinth corps Creek D. H. Hill division Donelson east enemy Ewell Farragut Federal army fight force Fort Henry Fredericksburg Frémont front Grant gun-boats guns Halleck hand Harper's Ferry Heintzelman Henderson Hist Hooker hundred Jackson Jefferson Davis John Johnston July Kentucky Lee's Longstreet Manassas McClellan McClernand McDowell Meade ment miles military Mississippi Missouri navy Nicolay and Hay North numbers Numbers and Losses officers Ohio once Peninsula Pope Porter Potomac president Records regiments reinforced retreat Richmond Ridge river road Serial Seward Shenandoah Sherman side slavery slaves soldier soon South Stanton Statutes at Large Stonewall Stonewall Jackson stood Sumner Tennessee thousand tion troops U. S. Statutes Union valley Vicksburg victory Virginia Warrenton Washington West Point wounded
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Page 213 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 30 - If any man attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.
Page 15 - It follows from these views that no state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void; and that acts of violence within any state or states against the authority of the United States are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances.
Page 310 - South; but there is no doubt that Jefferson Davis and other leaders of the South have made an army; they are making, it appears, a navy; and they have made,— what is more than either,— they have made a nation.
Page 284 - If the head of Lee's army is at Martinsburg and the tail of it on the plank road between Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, the animal must be very slim somewhere. Could you not break him?
Page 165 - 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 205 - Resolved, That the United States ought to cooperate with any State which may adopt gradual abolishment of slavery, giving to such State pecuniary aid, to be used by such State in its discretion, to compensate for the inconveniences, public and private, produced by such change of system.
Page 64 - States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution, and to preserve the Union with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired; and that as soon as these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease.
Page 17 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
Page 301 - Khamsin wind that scorched and singed Like that infernal flame that fringed The British squares at Waterloo! A thousand fell where Kemper led; A thousand died where Garnett bled: In blinding flame and strangling smoke The remnant through the batteries broke And crossed the works with Armistead. "Once more in Glory's van with me!