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... Troops in Baltimore - Proclamation declaring a Blockade of Rebel Ports - Position of Virginia - Secession of Virginia , Tennessee , North Carolina , and Arkansas - Response to the Call of the President at the North and West — Mr . Doug ...
... Troops in Baltimore - Proclamation declaring a Blockade of Rebel Ports - Position of Virginia - Secession of Virginia , Tennessee , North Carolina , and Arkansas - Response to the Call of the President at the North and West — Mr . Doug ...
Page 49
... troops on Rock Island , he returned a defiant message , and kept on . In this threatening aspect of affairs , Governor Reynolds issued a call for volunteers , and among the companies that immediately responded was one from Menard County ...
... troops on Rock Island , he returned a defiant message , and kept on . In this threatening aspect of affairs , Governor Reynolds issued a call for volunteers , and among the companies that immediately responded was one from Menard County ...
Page 50
... troops to the mouth of Rock River . It was there arranged with General Atkinson that they should proceed up the river to Prophetstown , where they were to await the arrival of the regulars . General Whiteside , in command of the ...
... troops to the mouth of Rock River . It was there arranged with General Atkinson that they should proceed up the river to Prophetstown , where they were to await the arrival of the regulars . General Whiteside , in command of the ...
Page 51
... troops and supplies . twenty - four hundred men thus brought together made a force sufficiently large to annihilate Black Hawk's army , if they could have brought the cunning warrior to a fight , but this was impossible . Here a new ...
... troops and supplies . twenty - four hundred men thus brought together made a force sufficiently large to annihilate Black Hawk's army , if they could have brought the cunning warrior to a fight , but this was impossible . Here a new ...
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... so that the government could have no communication with its friends and forces . They had been instructing officers for years , and drilling troops for months . They knew that there were not 294 LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
... so that the government could have no communication with its friends and forces . They had been instructing officers for years , and drilling troops for months . They knew that there were not 294 LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
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