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... arrival there I found no money to my credit , and was forced to proceed to Wash- ington myself to examine the cause of the delay . After considerable delay in the Treasury Department , on the 27th of April funds were placed to my credit ...
... arrival there I found no money to my credit , and was forced to proceed to Wash- ington myself to examine the cause of the delay . After considerable delay in the Treasury Department , on the 27th of April funds were placed to my credit ...
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... arrival of the balance of the train . As the rad , from the train to the point I wished to make on the river , was to be very ngh and heavy with sand , and the weather was most excessively warm , I decided to bring in only half the ...
... arrival of the balance of the train . As the rad , from the train to the point I wished to make on the river , was to be very ngh and heavy with sand , and the weather was most excessively warm , I decided to bring in only half the ...
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... arrival at camp . The pioneers , immediately on our arrival at camp , made a good ford over the creek to facilitate and hasten our crossing to - morrow . 26th . - Got a good start and crossed the creek without difficulty . At the ford ...
... arrival at camp . The pioneers , immediately on our arrival at camp , made a good ford over the creek to facilitate and hasten our crossing to - morrow . 26th . - Got a good start and crossed the creek without difficulty . At the ford ...
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... arrival at camp , and reported on their return that to the west of us the buffalo were travelling northwestward in great numbers ; weather very warm ; grass , water , and wood plenty at camp . Sth . - Travelled up the stream to the west ...
... arrival at camp , and reported on their return that to the west of us the buffalo were travelling northwestward in great numbers ; weather very warm ; grass , water , and wood plenty at camp . Sth . - Travelled up the stream to the west ...
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... arrival at night to camp , the scouts in the rear announced the approach of horsemen , which , to my great joy , proved to be re - enforcements from General Connor , which had been prevented from before reaching us by the severe rains ...
... arrival at night to camp , the scouts in the rear announced the approach of horsemen , which , to my great joy , proved to be re - enforcements from General Connor , which had been prevented from before reaching us by the severe rains ...
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Page 12 - West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Anne, 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.
Page 163 - ... 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 and the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authority thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons or any of them in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom...
Page 164 - 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 164 - And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
Page 163 - 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 12 - ... the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof, respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit : Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, (except the parishes of St.
Page 164 - St. Martin, and Orleans, including the city of New Orleans), Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia (except the fortyeight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess...
Page 80 - Congress, and shall also make special reports whenever required to do so by the President or either house of Congress...
Page 163 - Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit: "That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and...
Page 11 - 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, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight...