THE AMERICAN CONFLICT: A HSTORY OF THE GREAT REBELLION1866 |
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... enemy's line , when the latter gave way , and the regiment was deployed in line of battle to give them a hastening volley . Disordered by bad management , which brought its skirmishers under a fire of our own regiments on either side ...
... enemy's line , when the latter gave way , and the regiment was deployed in line of battle to give them a hastening volley . Disordered by bad management , which brought its skirmishers under a fire of our own regiments on either side ...
Page 109
... enemy's communications , while mine would ? " 5th . In case of disaster , would not a retreat be more difficult by ... enemy as certain , the question at once arises as to the importance of the results gained . I think these results ...
... enemy's communications , while mine would ? " 5th . In case of disaster , would not a retreat be more difficult by ... enemy as certain , the question at once arises as to the importance of the results gained . I think these results ...
Page 110
... enemy to concentrate his forces and perfect his defensive mea- sures , at the very points where it is desir- able to strike him when least prepared . " " This point is easily reached by vessels of heavy draught ; it is neither occupied ...
... enemy to concentrate his forces and perfect his defensive mea- sures , at the very points where it is desir- able to strike him when least prepared . " " This point is easily reached by vessels of heavy draught ; it is neither occupied ...
Page 113
... enemy's batteries on York river . " 4th . That the forces to be left to cover Washington shall be such as to give an en- tire feeling of security for its safety from menace . ( Unanimous . ) " If the foregoing can not be , the army ...
... enemy's batteries on York river . " 4th . That the forces to be left to cover Washington shall be such as to give an en- tire feeling of security for its safety from menace . ( Unanimous . ) " If the foregoing can not be , the army ...
Page 126
... enemy abandoned the entire position during the night , leaving all his sick and wounded in our hands . His loss ... enemy's works are very ex- tensive and exceedingly strong , both in respect to their position and the works themselves ...
... enemy abandoned the entire position during the night , leaving all his sick and wounded in our hands . His loss ... enemy's works are very ex- tensive and exceedingly strong , both in respect to their position and the works themselves ...
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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.