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... MOUNTAIN . - Carrock's Ford . - The Retreat of the Confederates.- General McClellan . - Meeting of the Federal Congress . - Mr . Lincoln's Message.- Kentucky . - Western Virginia . - Large Requisitions for Men and Money by the Fed- eral ...
... MOUNTAIN . - Carrock's Ford . - The Retreat of the Confederates.- General McClellan . - Meeting of the Federal Congress . - Mr . Lincoln's Message.- Kentucky . - Western Virginia . - Large Requisitions for Men and Money by the Fed- eral ...
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... Mountain . - General Rose- crans . - Failure of General Lee's Plan of Attack . - He removes to the Kanawha Re- gion . The Opportunity of a Decisive Battle lost . - Retreat of Rosecrans . - General H. R. Jackson's Affair on the ...
... Mountain . - General Rose- crans . - Failure of General Lee's Plan of Attack . - He removes to the Kanawha Re- gion . The Opportunity of a Decisive Battle lost . - Retreat of Rosecrans . - General H. R. Jackson's Affair on the ...
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... MOUNTAIN . - Carrock's Ford . - The Retreat of the Confederates . - General Mc- Clellan . Meeting of the Federal Congress . — Mr . Lincoln's Message . — Kentucky.- Western Virginia . - Large Requisitions for Men and Money by the Federal ...
... MOUNTAIN . - Carrock's Ford . - The Retreat of the Confederates . - General Mc- Clellan . Meeting of the Federal Congress . — Mr . Lincoln's Message . — Kentucky.- Western Virginia . - Large Requisitions for Men and Money by the Federal ...
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... movements and the overwhelming numbers of the North . The first of the series of these characteristic disasters was now to befall the South . THE BATTLE OF RICH MOUNTAIN . The main column of THE FIRST YEAR OF THE WAR . 83.
... movements and the overwhelming numbers of the North . The first of the series of these characteristic disasters was now to befall the South . THE BATTLE OF RICH MOUNTAIN . The main column of THE FIRST YEAR OF THE WAR . 83.
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... Mountain . Col. Pegram occu- pied the mountain with a force of about sixteen hundred men and some pieces of artillery . On the slopes of Laurel Hill , General Garnett was intrenched with a force of three thousand infantry , six pieces ...
... Mountain . Col. Pegram occu- pied the mountain with a force of about sixteen hundred men and some pieces of artillery . On the slopes of Laurel Hill , General Garnett was intrenched with a force of three thousand infantry , six pieces ...
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Page 56 - 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, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Page 59 - I can be no party to this wicked violation of the laws of the country, and to this war upon the' liberties of a free people. You can. get no troops from North Carolina." Governor Magoffin, of Kentucky, replied : — " Your dispatch is received. I say emphatically that Kentucky will furnish no troops for the wicked purpose of subduing her sister Southern States.
Page 56 - ... and property which have been seized from the Union, and in every event the utmost care will be observed, consistently with the objects aforesaid, to avoid any devastation, any destruction of, or interference with property, or any disturbance of peaceful citizens in any part of the country, and I hereby command the persons composing the combinations aforesaid to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes, within twenty days from this date.
Page 60 - I have only to say that the militia of Virginia will not be furnished to the powers at Washington for any such use or purpose as they have in view. Your object is to subjugate the Southern States, and a requisition made upon me for such an object — an object in my judgment not within the purview of the Constitution or the Act of 1795 — will not be complied with. You have chosen to inaugurate civil war, and having done so, we will meet it in a spirit as determined as the administration has exhibited...
Page 32 - Resolved, That we, the Democracy of the Union, in Convention assembled, hereby declare our affirmance of the resolutions unanimously adopted and declared as a platform of principles by the Democratic Convention at Cincinnati, in the year 1856, believing that Democratic principles are unchangeable in their nature, when applied to the same subject matters...
Page 74 - Thouvenel, then, with the highest consideration and good feeling, that the thought of a dissolution of this Union, peaceably or by force, has never entered into the mind of any candid statesman here, and it is high time that it be dismissed by statesmen in Europe.
Page 19 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Page 17 - Resolved, That all petitions, memorials and papers, touching the abolition of slavery or the buying, selling or transferring of slaves, in any State, District or Territory, of the United States, be laid on the table, without being debated, printed, read or referred, and that no further action whatever shall be had thereon.
Page 30 - Democratic party to be inferior in dignity and importance to the groat question of slavery, they content themselves with a general reaffirmance of the Cincinnati platform as to such issues, and also indorse said platform as to slavery, together with the following resolutions...
Page 106 - General, they are beating us back ;" to which the latter promptly replied : " Sir, we'll give them the bayonet." General Bee immediately rallied his overtasked troops with the words : " There is Jackson standing like a stone wall. Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer.