The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'64: Its 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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... officers as Buell and Fitz John Porter has not led me to represent them as incapable or timorous soldiers . What I believe in regard to these and many more of their school is , that they were misplaced - that they halted between their ...
... officers as Buell and Fitz John Porter has not led me to represent them as incapable or timorous soldiers . What I believe in regard to these and many more of their school is , that they were misplaced - that they halted between their ...
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... officers , if they had pay due them , to draw it at once , as this would be the last . 3 February 5 , 1861 . 2 and assigned to the command of the department , it was doubtless under- stood between them that his business in Texas was to ...
... officers , if they had pay due them , to draw it at once , as this would be the last . 3 February 5 , 1861 . 2 and assigned to the command of the department , it was doubtless under- stood between them that his business in Texas was to ...
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... officers had par- ticipated in Twiggs's treason ; but no more of these , and no private sol- diers , could be cajoled or bribed into deserting the flag of their country . 6 Col. Waite was still at San Anto- nio , when news reached ...
... officers had par- ticipated in Twiggs's treason ; but no more of these , and no private sol- diers , could be cajoled or bribed into deserting the flag of their country . 6 Col. Waite was still at San Anto- nio , when news reached ...
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... officers , of the treachery of their superiors , and the duty in- cumbent on them of resisting it .. cret organization known as " Knights | mander , Col. Loring , and his adju- of the Golden Circle , " having its tant , but only to find ...
... officers , of the treachery of their superiors , and the duty in- cumbent on them of resisting it .. cret organization known as " Knights | mander , Col. Loring , and his adju- of the Golden Circle , " having its tant , but only to find ...
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... officers held a long council of war . Many privates of the command likewise took counsel , and decided to fight . Just then , Capt . Gibbs appeared from the officers ' council , and ordered a retreat upon the camp , saying , " We will ...
... officers held a long council of war . Many privates of the command likewise took counsel , and decided to fight . Just then , Capt . Gibbs appeared from the officers ' council , and ordered a retreat upon the camp , saying , " We will ...
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