The Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War in the United States of America, Volume 2T. Belknap, 1880 - United States |
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... Battery , Regular Artillery , four guns , 6 and 12 - pounders ; Captain Schaeffer's Battery , Missouri Volunteer Artillery , six guns , 6 and 12 - pounders . General Lyon gave the most important secondary commands to Briga- dier ...
... Battery , Regular Artillery , four guns , 6 and 12 - pounders ; Captain Schaeffer's Battery , Missouri Volunteer Artillery , six guns , 6 and 12 - pounders . General Lyon gave the most important secondary commands to Briga- dier ...
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... battery of six pieces , a battalion of Missouri Volunteers , under Major Osterhaus , Captain Wood's company of mounted Kansas Volunteers , and a company of Regular Cavalry , under Lieutenant Canfield . Lieutenant - Colonel Andrews's ...
... battery of six pieces , a battalion of Missouri Volunteers , under Major Osterhaus , Captain Wood's company of mounted Kansas Volunteers , and a company of Regular Cavalry , under Lieutenant Canfield . Lieutenant - Colonel Andrews's ...
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... Battery , which was supported by a strong reserve . The Confederate pickets were driven in by Lyon's skirmishers ... Battery , under Lieutenant Sokalski , fired upon their foe . A few moments afterward , the remainder of the battery ...
... Battery , which was supported by a strong reserve . The Confederate pickets were driven in by Lyon's skirmishers ... Battery , under Lieutenant Sokalski , fired upon their foe . A few moments afterward , the remainder of the battery ...
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... Battery was planted on an eminence , between the Missouri and Kansas troops ; and Dubois's Battery , supported by Steele's battalion , was placed about eighty yards to the left and rear of it , in a position to play upon a concealed ...
... Battery was planted on an eminence , between the Missouri and Kansas troops ; and Dubois's Battery , supported by Steele's battalion , was placed about eighty yards to the left and rear of it , in a position to play upon a concealed ...
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... BATTERY MASKED MASKED BATTERY ME CULLOCH'SH QUA A FIRST KANSAS MISSOURI IOWA A AA AAA SIGELS SPRINGFIELD LYON'S LITTLE YORK DUBOIS BATTERY PLUMMER CORN FIELD RAINS NO ? CONCEALE BATTERY SIGEL SIGEL'S BRIGADE WILSON'S PLAN OF THE BATTLE ...
... BATTERY MASKED MASKED BATTERY ME CULLOCH'SH QUA A FIRST KANSAS MISSOURI IOWA A AA AAA SIGELS SPRINGFIELD LYON'S LITTLE YORK DUBOIS BATTERY PLUMMER CORN FIELD RAINS NO ? CONCEALE BATTERY SIGEL SIGEL'S BRIGADE WILSON'S PLAN OF THE BATTLE ...
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Page 560 - 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 sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days from the day first above mentioned, order and designate, as the States and parts of States wherein the people...
Page 560 - That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, 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...
Page 560 - Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and 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...
Page 557 - 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 Property of Rebels, and for Other Purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following: Sec.
Page 356 - In fact, would it not be less valuable in this, that it would break no great line of the enemy's communications, while mine would? Fifth. In case of disaster, would not a retreat be more difficult by your plan than mine?
Page 427 - If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army.
Page 220 - SIR : — The distribution of the forces under my command, incident to an unexpected change of commanders, and the overwhelming force under your command, compel me, notwithstanding the brilliant success of the Confederate arms yesterday, to accept the ungenerous and unchivalrous terms which you propose.
Page 560 - That the Executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the United States ; and the fact that any State, or the people thereof, shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such State shall have participated, shall in the absence...
Page 73 - I most cordially sympathize with your Excellency in the wish to preserve the peace of my own native State, Kentucky; but it is with regret I search [for], and cannot find, in your not very short letter any declaration or intimation that you entertain any desire for the preservation of the Federal Union.
Page 31 - Whereas a joint committee of both Houses of Congress has waited on the President of the United States and requested him to ' ' recommend a day of public humiliation, prayer, and fasting to be observed by the people of the United States with religious solemnities and the offering of fervent supplications to Almighty God for the safety and welfare of these States, His blessings on their arms, and a speedy restoration of peace...