The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 2A history of the Confederate States of America and an apologia for the causes that the author believed led to and justified the American Civil War. |
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... Ship Varuna sunk .-- The McRae . - The State of the City and its Defenses considered . - Public Indignation . - Its Victims . - Efforts made for its Defense by the Navy Department . - The Construction of the Mississippi PAGE 210 CHAPTER ...
... Ship Varuna sunk .-- The McRae . - The State of the City and its Defenses considered . - Public Indignation . - Its Victims . - Efforts made for its Defense by the Navy Department . - The Construction of the Mississippi PAGE 210 CHAPTER ...
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... Ships in Eu- rope . - Captain Conyngham's Captures . - Made Prisoner . - Retaliation.— Numbers of Captures . — Recognition of Greece . - Recognition of South American Cruisers . — Chief Act of Hostility charged on Great Britain by the ...
... Ships in Eu- rope . - Captain Conyngham's Captures . - Made Prisoner . - Retaliation.— Numbers of Captures . — Recognition of Greece . - Recognition of South American Cruisers . — Chief Act of Hostility charged on Great Britain by the ...
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... ships and privateers of both from carrying prizes into the waters of the United Kingdom or its colonies . All the other powers recognized the Confederate States to be belligerents , but closed their ports against the ad- mission of ...
... ships and privateers of both from carrying prizes into the waters of the United Kingdom or its colonies . All the other powers recognized the Confederate States to be belligerents , but closed their ports against the ad- mission of ...
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... ships . · Fort Donelson was placed on high ground ; and , with the plunging fire from its batteries , was thereby more effective against the ironclads brought to attack it on the water side . But on the land side it was not equally ...
... ships . · Fort Donelson was placed on high ground ; and , with the plunging fire from its batteries , was thereby more effective against the ironclads brought to attack it on the water side . But on the land side it was not equally ...
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... ship - yards , and of materials for constructing ironclads , which could not be readily obtained or prepared in a beset and blockaded country . Proposals were con- sidered both for building gunboats and for converting the ordi- nary ...
... ship - yards , and of materials for constructing ironclads , which could not be readily obtained or prepared in a beset and blockaded country . Proposals were con- sidered both for building gunboats and for converting the ordi- nary ...
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A. P. Hill advance Albert Sidney Johnston arms army Army of Tennessee artillery assault attack authority batteries battle Beauregard blockade brigade Captain captured Carolina cavalry citizens civil Colonel column command commenced Confederacy Confederate Congress Constitution corps court crossed D. H. Hill declared defense division duty election enemy enemy's engaged eral evacuation execution Federal fire flank fleet force Fredericksburg front Governor Grant gunboats guns held Hill hundred infantry intrenchments Jackson James River JEFFERSON DAVIS Johnston Lee's Lincoln Longstreet loss Major-General McClellan ment miles military Mississippi morning moved movement naval Navy night North North Carolina Northern officers persons ports position President President Lincoln prisoners proclamation railroad rear reënforcements regiment retreat Richmond road sent Sherman ship side slaves soldiers soon supplies surrender Tennessee Tennessee River thousand tion troops Union United States Government vessels Vicksburg Virginia Washington wounded
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Page 187 - And I further declare and make known that such persons, of suitable condition will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places and to man vessels of all sorts in said service. 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 189 - ... that this war is not waged upon our part in any spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and to preserve the Union, with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired; and that as soon as these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease.
Page 185 - Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause.
Page 297 - I will, in like manner, abide by and faithfully support all acts of congress passed during the existing rebellion with reference to slaves, so long and so far as not repealed, modified, or held void by congress, or by decision of the supreme court...
Page 484 - That in all criminal prosecutions the accused shall enjoy the right to have the assistance of counsel for his defense...
Page 624 - The terms upon which peace can be had are well understood. By the South laying down their arms, they will hasten that most desirable event, save thousands of human lives and hundreds of millions of property not yet destroyed.
Page 621 - I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the Emancipation Proclamation. Nor shall I return to slavery *any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation or by any of the acts of Congress.
Page 13 - WHEREAS the laws of the United States have been for some time past and now are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed, in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings...
Page 189 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so ; and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 187 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree 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...