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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... line of battle , and gave the of battle , under the crest of the hill , sufficiently order for the advance , so that the whole force under my command was within easy supporting distance . The enemy were in position on the top of the ...
... line of battle , and gave the of battle , under the crest of the hill , sufficiently order for the advance , so that the whole force under my command was within easy supporting distance . The enemy were in position on the top of the ...
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... line of My warmest thanks are due to the officers and battle , the right resting upon the commanding men of my command , for their unflinching cour - ridge , the left extending into the valley . The age and unyielding spirit exhibited ...
... line of My warmest thanks are due to the officers and battle , the right resting upon the commanding men of my command , for their unflinching cour - ridge , the left extending into the valley . The age and unyielding spirit exhibited ...
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... line to yield . I fell back slowly , but generally in good order . The Second Massachusetts in column of com- panies moving by flank , the Third Wisconsin in line of battle moving to the rear . On every side above the surrounding crest ...
... line to yield . I fell back slowly , but generally in good order . The Second Massachusetts in column of com- panies moving by flank , the Third Wisconsin in line of battle moving to the rear . On every side above the surrounding crest ...
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... line of battle at right angles to our own . Here we flung out our right skirmisher with his company -a burly captain , whose weight before the war was always a good three hundred , but now reduced by hard march - ants ing and harder ...
... line of battle at right angles to our own . Here we flung out our right skirmisher with his company -a burly captain , whose weight before the war was always a good three hundred , but now reduced by hard march - ants ing and harder ...
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... battle of Fair Oaks , * was incorrectly pub- works extending to the left ... line , gave way , unac- countably and discreditably . This caused tem ... battle of the thirty - first May and first June : Having been ordered by Gen. McClellan ...
... battle of Fair Oaks , * was incorrectly pub- works extending to the left ... line , gave way , unac- countably and discreditably . This caused tem ... battle of the thirty - first May and first June : Having been ordered by Gen. McClellan ...
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advance arrived artillery attack battery body of rebel bridge brigade camp Capt Captain captured charge Chickahominy citizens Colonel column command confederate Corinth corps Craney Island despatch eight enemy enemy's engaged evacuated field FIGHT took place fire five flag flank force of rebel Fort Pillow four front Front Royal gunboats guns headquarters Heintzelman horses hundred infantry issued James River killed and wounded Lieut Lieut.-Col line of battle loss Major-General mand Massachusetts McClellan Memphis ment miles morning New-Orleans New-York night Norfolk o'clock officers Ohio party Pennsylvania pickets position President Lincoln prisoners railroad rear rebel army rebel cavalry rebel forces rebel guerrillas reconnoissance reënforcements regi regiment retreat Richmond road rout schooner sent Sewell's Point shell shot skirmishers soldiers soon steamer Tenn Thirty-second thousand tion town Union army Union troops United Virginia volunteers Williamsburgh Winchester woods Yorktown
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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.