History of the Administration of President Lincoln: Including His Speeches, Letters, Addresses, Proclamations, and Messages. With a Preliminary Sketch of His Life |
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... army who achieved that Independence . I have often inquired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept this Confederacy so long together . It was not the mere matter of the separation of the Colonies from the mother land ...
... army who achieved that Independence . I have often inquired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept this Confederacy so long together . It was not the mere matter of the separation of the Colonies from the mother land ...
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... army , and 18,000 seamen to the navy . And on the 16th , by another proclamation , he directed the commander of the United States forces in Florida to " permit no person to exercise any office or authority upon the islands of Key West ...
... army , and 18,000 seamen to the navy . And on the 16th , by another proclamation , he directed the commander of the United States forces in Florida to " permit no person to exercise any office or authority upon the islands of Key West ...
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... army and the navy ; and at the end of four days came reluctantly , but decidedly , to the same conclusion as before . He also stated at the same time that no such sufficient force was then at the control of the Government , or could be ...
... army and the navy ; and at the end of four days came reluctantly , but decidedly , to the same conclusion as before . He also stated at the same time that no such sufficient force was then at the control of the Government , or could be ...
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... army as the Govern- ment has now on foot was never before known without a soldier in it but who had taken his place there of his own free choice . But more than this ; there are many single regiments whose members , one and another ...
... army as the Govern- ment has now on foot was never before known without a soldier in it but who had taken his place there of his own free choice . But more than this ; there are many single regiments whose members , one and another ...
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... Army Bill by adding a section that no part of the army should be employed " in sub- jecting or holding as a conquered province any sovereign state now or lately one of the United States , or in abolishing or in- terfering with African ...
... Army Bill by adding a section that no part of the army should be employed " in sub- jecting or holding as a conquered province any sovereign state now or lately one of the United States , or in abolishing or in- terfering with African ...
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