History of the American Civil War: Containing the events from the inauguration of President Lincoln to the Proclamation of Emancipation of the slavesHarper, 1868 - United States |
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... fire , unless compelled to do so by some hostile · act against the fort or against the American flag . It is to be remarked that the main point of this nego- tiation had reference to the expected relief fleet . Had Anderson accepted ...
... fire , unless compelled to do so by some hostile · act against the fort or against the American flag . It is to be remarked that the main point of this nego- tiation had reference to the expected relief fleet . Had Anderson accepted ...
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... fire was open- ed on the fort from a battery on James Island . Soon CHAP . XXXVI . ] Fire opened on the fortress 62 [ SECT . VII . STRENGTH OF THE ASSAILANTS .
... fire was open- ed on the fort from a battery on James Island . Soon CHAP . XXXVI . ] Fire opened on the fortress 62 [ SECT . VII . STRENGTH OF THE ASSAILANTS .
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... fire . by hot shot . On Saturday the reply of the fort was necessarily very The barracks fired languid . At about 9 o'clock the barracks were set on fire by the red - hot shot of the Confederates , and so dense was the smoke that the ...
... fire . by hot shot . On Saturday the reply of the fort was necessarily very The barracks fired languid . At about 9 o'clock the barracks were set on fire by the red - hot shot of the Confederates , and so dense was the smoke that the ...
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... fire , the gorge wall seriously injured , the mag- azine surrounded by flames , and its door closed from the effects of the heat , four barrels and three car- tridges of powder only being available , and no provisions But pork remaining ...
... fire , the gorge wall seriously injured , the mag- azine surrounded by flames , and its door closed from the effects of the heat , four barrels and three car- tridges of powder only being available , and no provisions But pork remaining ...
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... fire . The only effect of the direct fire during the two days was to disable three bar- bette guns , knock off large portions of the chimneys and brick walls projecting above the parapet , and to set the quarters on fire with hot shot ...
... fire . The only effect of the direct fire during the two days was to disable three bar- bette guns , knock off large portions of the chimneys and brick walls projecting above the parapet , and to set the quarters on fire with hot shot ...
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A. P. Hill advance armed artillery attack batteries battle Beauregard blockade Bragg bridge brigade Buell Bull Run campaign capture Carolina Centreville CHAP Charleston Chickahominy command compelled Confederacy Confederate Congress Corinth corps Creek cross D. H. Hill declared defense division enemy erate expedition federacy Ferry fire flag force Fort Sumter Fortress Monroe front governor Grant gun-boats guns Halleck Harper's Ferry Heintzelman hundred Island issued Jackson James River junction Kentucky land Lewis Wallace Lincoln Manassas Maryland McClellan Memphis ment Merrimack miles military millions Mississippi movement national army naval navy night North officers operations Orleans passed Peninsular campaign political Pope position Potomac President proclamation railroad re-enforcements regiments republic resistance retreat Richmond river road secession Secretary seized sent Sherman ships slavery slaves soldiers South South Carolina Southern Stonewall Jackson Sumter surrender Tennessee tion treasury Union United vessels Virginia Washington wounded
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Page 16 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.
Page 25 - Whereas the laws of the United States have been for some time past and now are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed in the states of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Page 613 - ... 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, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and...
Page 614 - And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be free...
Page 609 - ... 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...
Page 176 - It forces us to ask, Is there in all republics this inherent and fatal weakness? Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?
Page 614 - And I further declare and make known that such persons of suitable condition will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service.
Page 270 - Yours of this date, proposing armistice and appointment of Commissioners to settle terms of capitulation, is just received. No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
Page 608 - States and the people thereof, in which States that relation is or may be suspended or disturbed. That it is my purpose, upon the next meeting of Congress, to again recommend the adoption of a practical measure tendering pecuniary aid to the free acceptance or rejection of all...
Page 613 - West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Ann, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth, and which excepted parts are, for the present, left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued.