Southern Historical Society Papers, Volumes 17-18Virginia Historical Society, 1889 - Confederate States of America |
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... troops , that at the inception and during the progress of the siege there were within the Confederate lines around that city only about ten thousand men fit for duty . More than a third of these consisted of Reserves and Georgia State ...
... troops , that at the inception and during the progress of the siege there were within the Confederate lines around that city only about ten thousand men fit for duty . More than a third of these consisted of Reserves and Georgia State ...
Page 72
... troops industriously strengthened from day to day as opportunity occurred . The siege and garrison guns employed in arming this line had been withdrawn . from the city lines constructed by General Mercer in 1862 and 1863 . In ...
... troops industriously strengthened from day to day as opportunity occurred . The siege and garrison guns employed in arming this line had been withdrawn . from the city lines constructed by General Mercer in 1862 and 1863 . In ...
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... Troops for the occupation of these lines commenced taking their posts on the 7th of December , and at once entered , with much activity , upon the task of strengthening them and extending the in- fantry cover . The troops of Major ...
... Troops for the occupation of these lines commenced taking their posts on the 7th of December , and at once entered , with much activity , upon the task of strengthening them and extending the in- fantry cover . The troops of Major ...
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... troops and Georgia and South Carolina artillerists . Those under General Lewis embraced Worthen's North Carolina battalion , detachments of the 4th Tennes- see and the 12th South Carolina cavalry , the 2d , 4th and 9th Ken- tucky ...
... troops and Georgia and South Carolina artillerists . Those under General Lewis embraced Worthen's North Carolina battalion , detachments of the 4th Tennes- see and the 12th South Carolina cavalry , the 2d , 4th and 9th Ken- tucky ...
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... troops under Colonel Nisbet ) , Brooks ' foreign battalion , a de- tachment of the 55th Georgia regiment and Captain Barnes ' com- pany of artillerists from Augusta . This force was disposed as fol- lows : Lieutenant - Colonel R. B. ...
... troops under Colonel Nisbet ) , Brooks ' foreign battalion , a de- tachment of the 55th Georgia regiment and Captain Barnes ' com- pany of artillerists from Augusta . This force was disposed as fol- lows : Lieutenant - Colonel R. B. ...
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Page 229 - 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 218 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery.
Page 347 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him: The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was ambitious; If it were so, it was a grievous fault, And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it. Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest (For Brutus is an honourable man, So are they all, all honourable men) Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.
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Page 374 - After four years of arduous service, marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude, the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources. I need not tell the survivors of so many hard-fought battles, who have remained steadfast to the last, that I have consented to this result from no distrust of them; but, feeling that valor and devotion could accomplish nothing that could compensate for the loss that...
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Page 113 - That a committee of two on the part of the senate and three on the part of the...
Page 431 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted : Provided always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Page 436 - States declares that congress shall have power to dispose of, and make all needful rules and regulations respecting, the territory and other property belonging to the United States.