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... carry himself straight , I should have him found in January and sent off , that being the usual way in such cases , and then take his bed , table , and chair , to pay for the Christmas spree . • " I presume you have seen the register of ...
... carry himself straight , I should have him found in January and sent off , that being the usual way in such cases , and then take his bed , table , and chair , to pay for the Christmas spree . • " I presume you have seen the register of ...
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... carry on hostilities , and the removal , in accordance with treaty stipulations , of those who should sue for peace . By such a course , he considered , and events have fully justified the opinion , that the war would be ended in a ...
... carry on hostilities , and the removal , in accordance with treaty stipulations , of those who should sue for peace . By such a course , he considered , and events have fully justified the opinion , that the war would be ended in a ...
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... carry out their plans by force . The wiser heads among them hoped , if they did not altogether expect , to be allowed to secede in peace , but they were as determined as the rest to appeal to war in the last resort . Accordingly ...
... carry out their plans by force . The wiser heads among them hoped , if they did not altogether expect , to be allowed to secede in peace , but they were as determined as the rest to appeal to war in the last resort . Accordingly ...
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... carried the line across a branch of the main Corinth road , nearly to Sherman's left . Sherman facing to the south , with his right thrown back towards the landing , extended the front to the Purdy road , near Owl Creek . This advanced ...
... carried the line across a branch of the main Corinth road , nearly to Sherman's left . Sherman facing to the south , with his right thrown back towards the landing , extended the front to the Purdy road , near Owl Creek . This advanced ...
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... carrying with them the caissons and one gun , and abandoning the other six to the enemy , who was vigorously pressing forward . General Sherman being thus reduced to the necessity of again choosing a new line , and of abandoning the ...
... carrying with them the caissons and one gun , and abandoning the other six to the enemy , who was vigorously pressing forward . General Sherman being thus reduced to the necessity of again choosing a new line , and of abandoning the ...
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Page 293 - I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton.
Page 399 - Virginia on the following terms, to wit: Rolls of all the officers and men to be made in duplicate, one copy to be given to an officer to be designated by me, the other to be retained by such officer or officers as you may designate.
Page 163 - Here lies the seat of the coming empire ; and from the West, when our task is done, we will make short work of Charleston and Richmond, and the impoverished coast of the Atlantic.
Page 414 - President directs me to say to you that he wishes you to have no conference with General Lee, unless it be for the capitulation of General Lee's army, or on some minor and purely military matter. He instructs me to say that you are not to decide, discuss, or confer upon any political question. Such questions the President holds in his own hands, and will submit them to no military conferences or conventions.
Page 262 - The army will forage liberally on the country during the march. To this end, each brigade commander will organize a good and sufficient foraging party, under the command of one or more discreet officers, who will gather near the route...
Page 246 - Instead of my being on the defensive, I would be on the offensive; instead of guessing at what he means to do, he would have to guess at my plans. The difference in war is full twenty-five per cent. I can make Savannah, Charleston, or the mouth of the Chattahoochee. "Answer quick, as I know we will not have the telegraph long.
Page 320 - They can at any moment have peace simply by laying down their arms and submitting to -the national authority under the Constitution.
Page 220 - GENTLEMEN : I have your letter of the llth, in the nature of a petition to revoke my orders removing all the inhabitants from Atlanta. I have read it carefully, and give full credit to your statements of the distress that will be occasioned by it, and yet shall not revoke my orders, simply because my orders are not designed to meet the humanities of the case...
Page 163 - I tell you it was this that made us act with confidence. I knew, wherever I was, that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would help me out, if alive.
Page 295 - ... great success. Not only does it afford the obvious and immediate military advantages ; but in showing to the world that your army could be divided, putting the stronger part to an important new service, and yet leaving enough to vanquish the old opposing force of the whole, — Hood's army, — it brings those who sat in darkness to see a great light. But what next ? I suppose it will be safe if I leave General Grant and yourself to decide. Please make my grateful acknowledgments to your whole...