Abraham Lincoln: A History, Volume 6Century Company, 1890 - United States |
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... took up his position in the morning of the 28th of August just north of the Warrenton turnpike , near the old battlefield of Bull Run . Longstreet's corps was so far behind Jackson that a rapid change of front and concentration of all ...
... took up his position in the morning of the 28th of August just north of the Warrenton turnpike , near the old battlefield of Bull Run . Longstreet's corps was so far behind Jackson that a rapid change of front and concentration of all ...
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... took place for the possession of Bald Hill , west of the Sudley Springs road ; and later Sykes's regulars , successfully defending into the night the Henry House hill from the assault of the Confeder- ates , covered the retreat of the ...
... took place for the possession of Bald Hill , west of the Sudley Springs road ; and later Sykes's regulars , successfully defending into the night the Henry House hill from the assault of the Confeder- ates , covered the retreat of the ...
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... took place between him and the general at Alexandria , after he had found him on a transport near that place . Haupt told him all the news he had gathered , and asked for permission and a small escort to send a train with supplies to ...
... took place between him and the general at Alexandria , after he had found him on a transport near that place . Haupt told him all the news he had gathered , and asked for permission and a small escort to send a train with supplies to ...
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... took a lantern and visited the camps , four miles down the road , to see if I could not get a guard . I found General Hancock in bed in his tent . He rose immediately , and cheerfully agreed to give me the force I required . ” 1 1 This ...
... took a lantern and visited the camps , four miles down the road , to see if I could not get a guard . I found General Hancock in bed in his tent . He rose immediately , and cheerfully agreed to give me the force I required . ” 1 1 This ...
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... took charge at Alexandria . General Sum- ner , that brave old warrior who considered it a personal injury to be kept from any battlefield within his reach , broke out in hot anger when he learned that McClellan had said his corps was ...
... took charge at Alexandria . General Sum- ner , that brave old warrior who considered it a personal injury to be kept from any battlefield within his reach , broke out in hot anger when he learned that McClellan had said his corps was ...
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Page 345 - It follows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union ; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void ; and that acts of violence, within any State or States, against the authority of the \ United States, are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances.
Page 429 - Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution? By general law, life and limb must be protected, yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life ; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution through the preservation of the nation.
Page 412 - Portsmouth and which excepted parts are for the present left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued and by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid i do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated states and parts of states are and henceforward shall be free and that the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authorities thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons...
Page 234 - ... lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States, except duties on imports and interest as aforesaid.
Page 412 - States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly...
Page 168 - That on the first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, 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...
Page 440 - And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defense; and I recommend to them that in all cases when allowed they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. 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.
Page 153 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 412 - Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion...
Page 339 - The importance for man and beast of the prescribed weekly rest, the sacred rights of Christian soldiers and sailors, a becoming deference to the best sentiment of a Christian people, and a due regard for the Divine Will demand that Sunday labor in the Army and Navy be reduced to the measure of strict necessity. The discipline and character of the national forces should not suffer nor the cause they defend be imperiled by the profanation of the day or name of the Most High. 'At this time of public...