The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives, Illustrative Incidents, Poetry, Etc, Volume 4Frank Moore G.P. Putnam, 1863 - United States |
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... half - way up the mountain , the Unionists Follansbee , passed through New - York , on their encountered a force of rebel infantry supported way to Washington . by artillery , and a skirmish ensued in which the Unionists were defeated ...
... half - way up the mountain , the Unionists Follansbee , passed through New - York , on their encountered a force of rebel infantry supported way to Washington . by artillery , and a skirmish ensued in which the Unionists were defeated ...
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... half as many minutes by the terrible hand of death ; eight others of the " butternuts " were severely wounded ; eight others were taken prisoners , and the rest , some forty , " skedaddled " off in the direction of Farmington . Five of ...
... half as many minutes by the terrible hand of death ; eight others of the " butternuts " were severely wounded ; eight others were taken prisoners , and the rest , some forty , " skedaddled " off in the direction of Farmington . Five of ...
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... half a mile , and the same was the case on the Yorktown road . Between the edge of the felled timber and the fort was a belt of clear , arable land , six or seven hundred yards in width . This was dotted all over with rifle - pits . In ...
... half a mile , and the same was the case on the Yorktown road . Between the edge of the felled timber and the fort was a belt of clear , arable land , six or seven hundred yards in width . This was dotted all over with rifle - pits . In ...
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... half - past one P.M. , within three and a half miles of the battle - field , I halted my column to rest for the first time , and to get the lengthened files in hand before committing them to action . Capt . Moses , of the General's ...
... half - past one P.M. , within three and a half miles of the battle - field , I halted my column to rest for the first time , and to get the lengthened files in hand before committing them to action . Capt . Moses , of the General's ...
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... half miles from Dogtown . Here I rested my men about half an hour , when Captain Conger , Co. B , First Vermont cavalry , came up and reported himself to me . I told him that it was our intention to attack the enemy at daylight ...
... half miles from Dogtown . Here I rested my men about half an hour , when Captain Conger , Co. B , First Vermont cavalry , came up and reported himself to me . I told him that it was our intention to attack the enemy at daylight ...
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Page 138 - I further make known that, whether it be competent for me, as Commander-in-chief of the Army and Navy, to declare the slaves of any State or States free, and whether, at any time, or in any case, it shall have become a necessity indispensable to the maintenance of the Government to exercise such supposed power, are questions which, under my responsibility, I reserve to myself, and which I can not feel justified in leaving to the decision of commanders in the field.
Page 146 - ... through official agents only for the performance of the duties thus confided to citizens favorably known for their ability, loyalty, and patriotism. The several orders issued upon these occurrences were transmitted by private messengers, who pursued a circuitous way to the seaboard cities, inland, across the States of Pennsylvania and Ohio and the northern lakes. I believe that by these and other similar measures taken in that crisis, some of which were without any authority of law, the government...
Page 329 - To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the Confederate States...
Page 138 - The three States of Georgia, Florida and South Carolina, comprising the military department of the south, having deliberately declared themselves no longer under the protection of the United States of America, and having taken up arms against the said United States, it becomes a military necessity to declare them under martial law. This was accordingly done on the 25th day of April, 1862. Slavery and martial law in a free country are altogether incompatible; the persons in these three States —...
Page 138 - This proposal makes common cause for a common object, casting no reproaches upon any. It acts not the Pharisee. The change it contemplates would come gently as the dews of heaven, not rending or wrecking anything. Will you not embrace it? So much good has not been done by one effort in all past time as in the providence of God it is now your high privilege to do. May the vast future not have to lament that you have neglected it.
Page 353 - Vouchers will be given to the owners, stating on their face that they will be payable at the conclusion of the war, upon sufficient testimony being furnished that such owners have been loyal citizens of the United States since the date of the vouchers.
Page 146 - Cummings, of the city of New York, should be authorized by the Secretary of War, Simon Cameron, to make all necessary arrangements for the transportation of troops and munitions of war, in aid and assistance of the officers of the army of the United States, until communication by mails and telegraph should be completely reestablished between the cities of Washington and New York.
Page 136 - As the officers and soldiers of the United States have been subject to repeated insults from the women (calling themselves ladies) of New Orleans, in return for the most scrupulous noninterference and courtesy on our part, it is ordered that hereafter when any female shall, by word, gesture, or movement, insult or show contempt for any officer or soldier of the United States, she shall be regarded and held liable to be treated as a woman of the town plying her avocation.
Page 138 - Therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, proclaim and declare that the Government of the United States had no knowledge or belief of an intention on the part of General Hunter to issue such a proclamation, nor has it yet any authentic information that the document is genuine; and, further, that neither General Hunter, nor any other commander, or person, has been authorized by the Government of the United States...
Page 138 - Resolved, That the United States ought to cooperate with any State which may adopt gradual abolishment of slavery, giving to such State pecuniary aid, to be used by such State, in its discretion, to compensate for the inconveniences, public and private, produced by such change of system.