THE AMERICAN CONFLICT: A HSTORY OF THE GREAT REBELLION1866 |
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... cover and leaped over the line of low sand - hills behind which they had lain , and made a desperate rush upon McRae's battery confronting them . Volley after volley of grape and canister was poured through their ranks , cutting them ...
... cover and leaped over the line of low sand - hills behind which they had lain , and made a desperate rush upon McRae's battery confronting them . Volley after volley of grape and canister was poured through their ranks , cutting them ...
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... cover , save that a part of them bore a crop of ripe corn . Blunt's eccen- tric advance had brought him in front of the enemy's left , where they had been massing a large force for the purpose of flanking Herron's position . The ...
... cover , save that a part of them bore a crop of ripe corn . Blunt's eccen- tric advance had brought him in front of the enemy's left , where they had been massing a large force for the purpose of flanking Herron's position . The ...
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... cover of a ridge directly upon their most important battery and field- work . Buckner declared that his post would certainly be attacked in the morning , and that he could not hold it half an hour ; he thought they might yet fight their ...
... cover of a ridge directly upon their most important battery and field- work . Buckner declared that his post would certainly be attacked in the morning , and that he could not hold it half an hour ; he thought they might yet fight their ...
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... cover of the smoke , to the pro- tection of their batteries . The Cin- cinnati was our only vessel that had suffered , and she had but 4 wounded . A month later , " Fort Pillow was evacuated , as was Fort Randolph , twelve miles below ...
... cover of the smoke , to the pro- tection of their batteries . The Cin- cinnati was our only vessel that had suffered , and she had but 4 wounded . A month later , " Fort Pillow was evacuated , as was Fort Randolph , twelve miles below ...
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... a time ; but they had been strangely drawn up in an open field , leaving to the enemy the cover 60 On Sunday , April 6 . #DY ROAD SHILOH CHURCH U.S.GUNBOATS ESS SEE PITTSBURG LANDING , THE REBEL ATTACK AT PITTSBURG LANDING. ...
... a time ; but they had been strangely drawn up in an open field , leaving to the enemy the cover 60 On Sunday , April 6 . #DY ROAD SHILOH CHURCH U.S.GUNBOATS ESS SEE PITTSBURG LANDING , THE REBEL ATTACK AT PITTSBURG LANDING. ...
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A. P. Hill abatis advance April arms artillery assailed assault attack Banks battle Bragg bridge Brig.-Gen brigade burned Capt captured cavalry charge Chattanooga command Confederate Corinth corps creek crossed defenses dispatched division enemy enemy's fell fight fire flank fleet Fort Sumter Fortress Monroe Fredericksburg front Grant gunboats guns Harper's Ferry heavy held Hill Hooker horses infantry intrenchments J. E. B. Stuart Jackson Lee's loss Maj.-Gen mand March McClellan ment miles military Mississippi morning moved movement nearly negroes night officers Ohio passed Port Port Hudson position Potomac prisoners pushed raid railroad reached rear Rebel army Rebel force Rebellion rëenforced regiments repulsed retreat Richmond ridge river road Rosecrans routed says sent Sept shell Sherman shot side sion skirmishers Slavery slaves Smith soldiers soon South Carolina strong surrender Tennessee thence tion troops Union vance Vicksburg Virginia woods
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Page 250 - 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. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Page 255 - ... commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and...
Page 255 - ... and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated states and parts of states are and henceforward shall be free, and that the executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons. And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defense; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully...
Page 255 - St. Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans, including the city of New Orleans, ) Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina...
Page 657 - I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere...
Page 742 - April 7, 1865 GENERAL : — I have received your note of this date. Though not entertaining the opinion you express on the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia...
Page 677 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the...
Page 158 - I have seen too many dead and wounded comrades to feel otherwise than that the Government has not sustained this army. If you do not do so now, the game is lost.
Page 742 - GENERAL : The result of the last week must convince you of the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the army of Northern Virginia in this struggle. I feel that it is so, and regard it as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility of any further effusion of blood by asking of you the surrender of that portion of the Confederate States army known as the army of Northern Virginia.
Page 742 - I would say that peace being my great desire, there is but one condition I would insist upon, namely : that the men and officers surrendered shall be disqualified for taking up arms again against the government of the United States until properly exchanged.