The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives, Illustrative Incidents, Poetry, Etc, Volume 5Frank Moore G. P. Putnam, 1863 - United States |
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... fall back upon Richmond . -THIRTEEN members of the Eleventh Pennsyl -- ( Docs . 17 and 92. ) vania volunteer cavalry were captured near Zuni , Va . , this day . - Petersburgh Express , June 2 . May 31. - A body of Illinois militia ...
... fall back upon Richmond . -THIRTEEN members of the Eleventh Pennsyl -- ( Docs . 17 and 92. ) vania volunteer cavalry were captured near Zuni , Va . , this day . - Petersburgh Express , June 2 . May 31. - A body of Illinois militia ...
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... fall back under cover of the adja- cent woods . ( Doc . 104. ) dred stand of arms . Captain Moore and one pri- vate were wounded . THE Board of Supervisors of Rensselaer County , N. Y. , assembled at Troy , appropriated seventy - five ...
... fall back under cover of the adja- cent woods . ( Doc . 104. ) dred stand of arms . Captain Moore and one pri- vate were wounded . THE Board of Supervisors of Rensselaer County , N. Y. , assembled at Troy , appropriated seventy - five ...
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... back to camp . I withdrew all my skirmishers , and started back to camp . Stopping at Somer- ville I called in the ... fall back , which they did in good order , disputing every inch of ground as they went . While we were engaging the ...
... back to camp . I withdrew all my skirmishers , and started back to camp . Stopping at Somer- ville I called in the ... fall back , which they did in good order , disputing every inch of ground as they went . While we were engaging the ...
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... fall back , the enemy fol- owing close as long as they were protected by the forest . There was nothing like panic or fear . No bad conduct is reported on the part of any corps -- on the contrary , every soldier was on his best behavior ...
... fall back , the enemy fol- owing close as long as they were protected by the forest . There was nothing like panic or fear . No bad conduct is reported on the part of any corps -- on the contrary , every soldier was on his best behavior ...
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... fall back and con- centrate at McDowell . purpose of obtaining accurate information of their strength and position ... rear . ten o'clock A.M. your brigade arrived . Desultory They obeyed the order with the greatest alacrity ; firing of ...
... fall back and con- centrate at McDowell . purpose of obtaining accurate information of their strength and position ... rear . ten o'clock A.M. your brigade arrived . Desultory They obeyed the order with the greatest alacrity ; firing of ...
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advance arms arrived artillery attack battery body of rebel bridge brigade camp Capt Captain captured Casey's citizens Colonel column command confederate Corinth corps Craney Island division eight enemy enemy's engaged evacuated field FIGHT took place fire five flag flank force of rebel Fort Pillow front Front Royal gunboats guns headquarters Heintzelman horses hundred infantry issued James River killed and wounded large number Lieut Lieut.-Col line of battle loss Major-General mand Massachusetts McClellan Memphis ment miles morning National New-Orleans New-York night Norfolk o'clock officers Ohio party Pennsylvania pickets position President Lincoln prisoners railroad rear rebel army rebel cavalry rebel forces rebel guerrillas reconnoissance reënforcements regi regiment retreat Richmond road rout schooner sent Sewell's Point shell shot soldiers steamer Tenn Thirty-second thousand tion to-day town Union army Union troops United Virginia volunteers Williamsburgh Winchester woods Yorktown
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Page 33 - ... commerce: Now, therefore, be it known that I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States...
Page 46 - Also to the ninth and tenth sections of an act entitled "An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following: "SEC.
Page 118 - Resolved that the United States ought to co-operate with any state which may adopt gradual abolishment of slavery, giving to such state pecuniary aid, to be used by such state in its discretion, to compensate for the inconveniences public and private, produced by such change of system.
Page 93 - And all persons appointed to service under this act, and the act to which this is an amendment, shall be...
Page 33 - Orleans shall so far cease and determine, from and after the first day of June next, that commercial intercourse with those ports, except as to persons and things and information contraband of war, may, from that time, be carried on, subject to the laws of the United States...
Page 116 - As the officers and soldiers of the United States have been subject to repeated insults from the women (calling themselves ladies) of New Orleans, in return for the most scrupulous noninterference and courtesy on our part, it is ordered that hereafter when any female shall, by word, gesture, or movement, insult or show contempt for any officer or soldier of the United States, she shall be regarded and held liable to be treated as a woman of the town plying her avocation.
Page 118 - The three States of Georgia, Florida and South Carolina, comprising the military department of the south, having deliberately declared themselves no longer under the protection of the United States of America, and having taken up arms against the said United States, it becomes a military necessity to declare them under martial law. This was accordingly done on the 25th day of April, 1862.
Page 33 - An act further to provide for the collection of duties on imports, and for other purposes...
Page 118 - Therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, proclaim and declare that the Government of the United States had no knowledge or belief of an intention on the part of General Hunter to issue such a proclamation, nor has it yet any authentic information that the document is genuine; and, further, that neither General Hunter, nor any other commander, or person, has been authorized by the Government of the United States...
Page 336 - ... that any assistance would reach me from the direction of Washington ; but I determined again to give battle to the enemy on the 30th, and, at least, to lay on such blows as would cripple him as much as possible, and delay, as long as practicable, any further advance toward the capital.