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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... loss of their emoluments through the incoming of a Repub lican administration , constituted a most embittered class . They acted as spies upon the government , and transmit- ted whatever information they could gather to Mont- gomery ...
... loss of their emoluments through the incoming of a Repub lican administration , constituted a most embittered class . They acted as spies upon the government , and transmit- ted whatever information they could gather to Mont- gomery ...
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... loss of Fortress Mon- roe would have been a great military calamity to the nation ; that of Washington would perhaps have been fatal . Plans for its ac- All through the winter there had been rumors that the Virginians contemplated a ...
... loss of Fortress Mon- roe would have been a great military calamity to the nation ; that of Washington would perhaps have been fatal . Plans for its ac- All through the winter there had been rumors that the Virginians contemplated a ...
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... loss of the regiment was three killed and eight wounded . In this manner they forced their way for two miles and a half , from the Philadelphia to the Washington station in Baltimore , bricks , stones , pieces of iron being thrown from ...
... loss of the regiment was three killed and eight wounded . In this manner they forced their way for two miles and a half , from the Philadelphia to the Washington station in Baltimore , bricks , stones , pieces of iron being thrown from ...
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... loss to the government at Washington ; but I deem it unnecessary , since the presence , at almost every exposed point on the whole Southern coast , and at numerous in- land intrenched camps in the several states , of heavy pieces of ...
... loss to the government at Washington ; but I deem it unnecessary , since the presence , at almost every exposed point on the whole Southern coast , and at numerous in- land intrenched camps in the several states , of heavy pieces of ...
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... loss . There is now but little doubt that , had the Confederacy been able to seize it , European recognition would at once have followed . It was the clear percep tion of this relative value that controlled Lincoln's move- ments in the ...
... loss . There is now but little doubt that , had the Confederacy been able to seize it , European recognition would at once have followed . It was the clear percep tion of this relative value that controlled Lincoln's move- ments in the ...
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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.