The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'64 : It's Causes, Incidents, and Results : Intended to Exhibit Especially Its Moral and Political Phases : with the Drift and Progress of American Opinion Respecting Human Slavery : from 1776 to the Close of the War for the Union, Volume 2O.D. Case, 1867 - Slavery |
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... guns , to undertake a siege ; while his offer of battle in the open plain , just outside the range of the guns of the fort , was wisely declined . He would not retreat , and could not afford to re- main , consuming his scanty supplies ...
... guns , to undertake a siege ; while his offer of battle in the open plain , just outside the range of the guns of the fort , was wisely declined . He would not retreat , and could not afford to re- main , consuming his scanty supplies ...
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... guns , with their entire equi- ers , burst from the wooded 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 page , and many small ...
... guns , with their entire equi- ers , burst from the wooded 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 page , and many small ...
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... guns , which were saved and brought off , with most of our wagons . But our infantry soon gave way , and the Texan victory was complete . Their loss was reported by Scurry as 36 killed and 60 wounded ; but among the former were Majors ...
... guns , which were saved and brought off , with most of our wagons . But our infantry soon gave way , and the Texan victory was complete . Their loss was reported by Scurry as 36 killed and 60 wounded ; but among the former were Majors ...
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... guns , 11 of them bearing upon any vessels approaching from below , with a spacious intrenched camp in its rear ... guns , because unwilling to expose their weak , unsheltered sides to the heavy guns of the fort , one of them ...
... guns , 11 of them bearing upon any vessels approaching from below , with a spacious intrenched camp in its rear ... guns , because unwilling to expose their weak , unsheltered sides to the heavy guns of the fort , one of them ...
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... guns respect- ively , one of them a 10 - inch colum- biad , three 64 - pounders , and the rest 32 - pounders ; all protected by very heavy earthworks , and all bearing on the approach up the river . The fort itself had but 8 heavy guns ...
... guns respect- ively , one of them a 10 - inch colum- biad , three 64 - pounders , and the rest 32 - pounders ; all protected by very heavy earthworks , and all bearing on the approach up the river . The fort itself had but 8 heavy guns ...
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Page 673 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Page 253 - 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 251 - States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free, and the executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons or any of them in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom.
Page 664 - American people, that, after four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war, during which, under the pretense of a military necessity of a war power higher than the Constitution, the Constitution itself has been disregarded in every part, and public liberty and private right alike trodden down, and the material prosperity of the country essentially impaired, justice, humanity, liberty, and the public welfare demand that immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities...
Page 672 - NEITHER PARTY EXPECTED FOR THE WAR THE MAGNITUDE OR THE DURATION WHICH IT HAS ALREADY ATTAINED. NEITHER ANTICIPATED THAT THE CAUSE OF THE CONFLICT MIGHT CEASE WITH OR EVEN BEFORE THE CONFLICT ITSELF SHOULD
Page 672 - Then a statement, somewhat in detail, of a course to be pursued, seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented.
Page 672 - Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came. One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend...
Page 653 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting-place for those •who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground.
Page 653 - 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 250 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free...