History of the Great Rebellion, from Its Commencement to Its Close, Giving an Account of Its Origin: The Secession of the Southern States, and the Formation of the Confederate Government, the Concentration of the Military and Financial Resources of the Federal Government ... Together with Sketches of the Lives of All the Eminent Statesmen and Military and Naval Commanders, with a Full and Complete Index. From Official Sources |
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... Advance of the Reserves . - Retreat of the Enemy .. CHAPTER XXIII . General Jackson's Movement . - Battle at Winchester . - Advance o . Banks . - Shields ordered to join McDowell . - Retreat of Banks . - Front Royal . - Banks driven ...
... Advance of the Reserves . - Retreat of the Enemy .. CHAPTER XXIII . General Jackson's Movement . - Battle at Winchester . - Advance o . Banks . - Shields ordered to join McDowell . - Retreat of Banks . - Front Royal . - Banks driven ...
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... Advance of the Army . - McClellan Superseded ..... 876 CHAPTER XXXV . Burnside in Command . - Change of Plan . - Pontoons Delayed . - Plans of Crossing . - Two Attacks . -Franklin's Movements . - Seizure of Fredericksburg - Sumner ...
... Advance of the Army . - McClellan Superseded ..... 876 CHAPTER XXXV . Burnside in Command . - Change of Plan . - Pontoons Delayed . - Plans of Crossing . - Two Attacks . -Franklin's Movements . - Seizure of Fredericksburg - Sumner ...
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... Advance and Subsequent Retreat ..... CHAPTER XLIV . 450 464 Meade's Advance across the Rapidan . - Recrosses . - Winter - Quarters . - Draft for Three Hundred Thousand Ien . - Reconnoissance . - Kilpatrick's Raid upon Richmond . — Death ...
... Advance and Subsequent Retreat ..... CHAPTER XLIV . 450 464 Meade's Advance across the Rapidan . - Recrosses . - Winter - Quarters . - Draft for Three Hundred Thousand Ien . - Reconnoissance . - Kilpatrick's Raid upon Richmond . — Death ...
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... Advance on Richmond . - Crossing of the Rapidan . - Routes of Corps . - The Enemy Attempts a Flanking Movement . - Meade's Attack . - Repulse of Griffin . - Hancock Arrives . - Concentration of the Army . - Burnside ordered Forward ...
... Advance on Richmond . - Crossing of the Rapidan . - Routes of Corps . - The Enemy Attempts a Flanking Movement . - Meade's Attack . - Repulse of Griffin . - Hancock Arrives . - Concentration of the Army . - Burnside ordered Forward ...
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... advance reached Centreville . This sort of thing was of frequent occurrence during the first year of the war ; but notorious as it was , no clue to the perpetrators of the acts has ever been discovered , or at least made public . Every ...
... advance reached Centreville . This sort of thing was of frequent occurrence during the first year of the war ; but notorious as it was , no clue to the perpetrators of the acts has ever been discovered , or at least made public . Every ...
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Page 359 - I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free.
Page 60 - 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 60 - This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
Page 746 - ... myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war.
Page 359 - If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Page 361 - ... 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 60 - States, including that of persons held to service. To avoid misconstruction of what I have said, I depart from my purpose not to speak of particular amendments so far as to say that, holding such a provision to now be implied constitutional law, I have no objection to its being made express and irrevocable.
Page 359 - If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy Slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union and is not either to save or destroy Slavery.
Page 361 - 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 434 - When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did— march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below ; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and the like could succeed. When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join General Banks, and when you turned northward, east of the...