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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... P.M. June 6. — At five o'clock A.M. , the United States fleet in the Mississippi river , near Memphis , en- gaged the rebel fleet of eight rams and gunboats , and after a two hours ' fight , seven of the rebel craft were either captured ...
... P.M. June 6. — At five o'clock A.M. , the United States fleet in the Mississippi river , near Memphis , en- gaged the rebel fleet of eight rams and gunboats , and after a two hours ' fight , seven of the rebel craft were either captured ...
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... o'clock P.M. Hon . E. M. Stanton , Secretary of War : AFTER arranging for movements up York River , I was urgently ... o'clock P.M. , resolved to stop until daylight , when we started again , and came in sight of the enemy's works before ...
... o'clock P.M. Hon . E. M. Stanton , Secretary of War : AFTER arranging for movements up York River , I was urgently ... o'clock P.M. , resolved to stop until daylight , when we started again , and came in sight of the enemy's works before ...
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... o'clock A.M. - the enemy being posted in thick woods , and we en- deavoring by manoeuvres to draw them out - and was maintained with great spirit and incessant firing until four o'clock P.M. , when we succeeded in driving them from ...
... o'clock A.M. - the enemy being posted in thick woods , and we en- deavoring by manoeuvres to draw them out - and was maintained with great spirit and incessant firing until four o'clock P.M. , when we succeeded in driving them from ...
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... o'clock until eight P.M. our small force engaged with undaunted bravery a force of the enemy which could not have been less than and maintained the position from which they had driven them , displaying courage and zeal which has merited ...
... o'clock until eight P.M. our small force engaged with undaunted bravery a force of the enemy which could not have been less than and maintained the position from which they had driven them , displaying courage and zeal which has merited ...
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... o'clock P.M. , it was re- solved to make a reconnoissance in force , to learn the strength and position of the enemy . half - past five o'clock , Gen. Milroy moved with four regiments , namely , the Seventy - fifth , Twenty- fifth ...
... o'clock P.M. , it was re- solved to make a reconnoissance in force , to learn the strength and position of the enemy . half - past five o'clock , Gen. Milroy moved with four regiments , namely , the Seventy - fifth , Twenty- fifth ...
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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.