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... Johnston , Quartermaster- General , of the rank of Brigadier - General , and Robert E. Lee , lately promoted to be Colonel of the First Cavalry . Lee was an officer of great promise , and a personal favorite of General Scott , who at ...
... Johnston , Quartermaster- General , of the rank of Brigadier - General , and Robert E. Lee , lately promoted to be Colonel of the First Cavalry . Lee was an officer of great promise , and a personal favorite of General Scott , who at ...
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... Johnston held stubbornly to his opinion , and wrote on June 6th , that , though the abandonment of Harper's Ferry might be depressing to the cause of the South , the loss of five or six thousand men would be more so . " And if they ...
... Johnston held stubbornly to his opinion , and wrote on June 6th , that , though the abandonment of Harper's Ferry might be depressing to the cause of the South , the loss of five or six thousand men would be more so . " And if they ...
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... Johnston's army to the effective strength of nine thousand , besides twenty - five hun- dred local militia in process of organization . Toward the end of June a movement against Manassas was resolved on at Washington . As a preliminary ...
... Johnston's army to the effective strength of nine thousand , besides twenty - five hun- dred local militia in process of organization . Toward the end of June a movement against Manassas was resolved on at Washington . As a preliminary ...
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... Johnston , who is now pretending to be engaged in fortifying at Winchester , but prepared to retire beyond striking distance if I should advance too far . To - morrow I advance to Bunker Hill preparatory to the other movement . If an ...
... Johnston , who is now pretending to be engaged in fortifying at Winchester , but prepared to retire beyond striking distance if I should advance too far . To - morrow I advance to Bunker Hill preparatory to the other movement . If an ...
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... Johnston states to have been less than twelve thousand men . It would appear that at this time two impulses struggled for mastery in Patterson's mind . Apparently he was both seeking and avoiding a battle . He had called a council of ...
... Johnston states to have been less than twelve thousand men . It would appear that at this time two impulses struggled for mastery in Patterson's mind . Apparently he was both seeking and avoiding a battle . He had called a council of ...
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Page 5 - 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 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,
Page 50 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 78 - And I hereby proclaim and declare that if any person, under the pretended authority of the said States, or under any other pretense, shall molest a vessel of the United States, or the persons or cargo on board of her, such person will be held amenable to the laws of the United States for the prevention and punishment of piracy.
Page 42 - 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. 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.
Page 49 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.
Page 74 - ... and I hereby command the persons composing the combinations aforesaid to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes within twenty days from this date.
Page 43 - 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 slaverj' — subordination to the superior race — is his natural and normal condition.
Page 49 - 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 61 - ... evacuate Fort Sumter by noon on the 15th instant, and that I will not in the mean time open my fires upon your forces unless compelled to do so by some hostile act against this fort or the flag of my Government by the forces under your command, or by some portion of them, or by the perpetration of some act showing a hostile intention on your part against this fort or the flag it bears, should I not receive prior to that time controlling instructions from my Government or additional supplies.
Page 49 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.