The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860 - '65 : Its Causes, Incidents, and Results Intended to Exhibit Especially Its Moral and Political Phases, with the Drift and Progress of American Opinion Respecting Human Slavery from 1776 to the Close of the War for the Union. II |
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... ment at once moved steadily back to its former position . Carr was so fearfully overmatched throughout the day that , though al- ways presenting a bold front to the enemy , he was compelled to give ground , sending repeated and urgent ...
... ment at once moved steadily back to its former position . Carr was so fearfully overmatched throughout the day that , though al- ways presenting a bold front to the enemy , he was compelled to give ground , sending repeated and urgent ...
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... ment , had nearly always been Demo- cratic politicians - of course , pro - Sla- very , and generally Southern - and for the last eight years emphatically so . These agents had little difficulty , at the outset of the Rebellion , in per ...
... ment , had nearly always been Demo- cratic politicians - of course , pro - Sla- very , and generally Southern - and for the last eight years emphatically so . These agents had little difficulty , at the outset of the Rebellion , in per ...
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... ment stores enough to open respectable groce ries . It was with the greatest difficulty that Gen. Floyd could restore order and get his mar tial law into any thing like an effective system . Blacks and Whites had to be chased and cap ...
... ment stores enough to open respectable groce ries . It was with the greatest difficulty that Gen. Floyd could restore order and get his mar tial law into any thing like an effective system . Blacks and Whites had to be chased and cap ...
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... ment up the Tennessee . General Charles F. Smith had been desig- nated by Gen. Halleck to direct this movement , but was soon disabled by the sickness of which he died not long after reaching Savannah , Tenn . , and Gen. Grant was thus ...
... ment up the Tennessee . General Charles F. Smith had been desig- nated by Gen. Halleck to direct this movement , but was soon disabled by the sickness of which he died not long after reaching Savannah , Tenn . , and Gen. Grant was thus ...
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... ment of shell , but sitting silently on his horse for some minutes , and only taken off to die . Beauregard at once assumed command ; but the death of Johnston was concealed , so far as possible , until his army had returned to Corinth ...
... ment of shell , but sitting silently on his horse for some minutes , and only taken off to die . Beauregard at once assumed command ; but the death of Johnston was concealed , so far as possible , until his army had returned to Corinth ...
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