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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... hill to their second Then the rebel postillions galloped up to the guns , limbered them up , and dragged them away , under a most galling fire from our infantry . The Their second position was taken upon the crest of a hill , to the ...
... hill to their second Then the rebel postillions galloped up to the guns , limbered them up , and dragged them away , under a most galling fire from our infantry . The Their second position was taken upon the crest of a hill , to the ...
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... hill . The side of the mountain up which I was compelled to make the attack , was entirely destitute of protection , either from trees or rocks , and so steep that the men were at times compelled to march either to one side or the other ...
... hill . The side of the mountain up which I was compelled to make the attack , was entirely destitute of protection , either from trees or rocks , and so steep that the men were at times compelled to march either to one side or the other ...
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... hill which was in the centre of an open field , reënforcements . The slaughter on both sides a farm - house ( Adams's ) bisecting his line , which was heavy . On our side the gallant Gen. Devens , stretched from the north - west on a ...
... hill which was in the centre of an open field , reënforcements . The slaughter on both sides a farm - house ( Adams's ) bisecting his line , which was heavy . On our side the gallant Gen. Devens , stretched from the north - west on a ...
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... Hill and Longstreet were in position early enough , however , to commence operations by eight A.M. Major - General Longstreet , unwilling to make a partial attack , instead of the combined movement which had been planned , waited from ...
... Hill and Longstreet were in position early enough , however , to commence operations by eight A.M. Major - General Longstreet , unwilling to make a partial attack , instead of the combined movement which had been planned , waited from ...
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... Hill , of whose conduct and courage he speaks in the highest terms . Major - Gen . Smith's division moved forward at four o'clock , Whiting's three brigades leading . Their progress was impeded by the enemy's skirmishers , which , with ...
... Hill , of whose conduct and courage he speaks in the highest terms . Major - Gen . Smith's division moved forward at four o'clock , Whiting's three brigades leading . Their progress was impeded by the enemy's skirmishers , which , with ...
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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.
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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.