The Great Rebellion: A History of the Civil War in the United States, Volume 1 |
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... Porter , with the Essex , Destroys the Rebel Ram Arkansas - Rosecrans at Corinth .. CHAPTER V. SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER , 1862 . Battle of Iuka - Gallantry of General Hamilton - Failure of Grant- Attempt of the Enemy to Cut Grant's Line of ...
... Porter , with the Essex , Destroys the Rebel Ram Arkansas - Rosecrans at Corinth .. CHAPTER V. SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER , 1862 . Battle of Iuka - Gallantry of General Hamilton - Failure of Grant- Attempt of the Enemy to Cut Grant's Line of ...
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... Porter's Ascent of the Red River - Capture of Batteries by General Smith - March of Banks across the Country to Alexandria - Advance into the Interior -Defeat of Banks - Retreat of Steele - Return of the Gunboats to Alexandria — Unable ...
... Porter's Ascent of the Red River - Capture of Batteries by General Smith - March of Banks across the Country to Alexandria - Advance into the Interior -Defeat of Banks - Retreat of Steele - Return of the Gunboats to Alexandria — Unable ...
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... Porter , with two divisions , and the regular reserves , to guard against a flank movement from the north , which should have been taken care of by McDowell . The other flank , south of the railroad and turnpike , was protected by the ...
... Porter , with two divisions , and the regular reserves , to guard against a flank movement from the north , which should have been taken care of by McDowell . The other flank , south of the railroad and turnpike , was protected by the ...
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... Porter , however , with the fifth corps , was on the north side - his communication with it preserved by numerous bridges . The first object of the enemy was to sweep this force away , and then keep down the river in our rear . At the ...
... Porter , however , with the fifth corps , was on the north side - his communication with it preserved by numerous bridges . The first object of the enemy was to sweep this force away , and then keep down the river in our rear . At the ...
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... Porter , and directed him to fall back , while the heavy guns and wagons were sent across the river . BATTLE OF ... Porter's flank , was sent off to- wards the White House , to prevent its being cut off by Jackson . The new position was ...
... Porter , and directed him to fall back , while the heavy guns and wagons were sent across the river . BATTLE OF ... Porter's flank , was sent off to- wards the White House , to prevent its being cut off by Jackson . The new position was ...
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A. P. Hill advance army artillery assault attack Banks batteries BATTLE OF GAINES Bragg brave bridge brigade Buell Burnside campaign cannon captured cavalry charge Chattanooga close Colonel columns command commenced compelled Corinth Corps crossed Cumberland Gap dark dashed desperate division enemy enemy's fall back fell field fierce fight fire flank force Fort Wagner forward Fredericksburg front gallant Grant gunboats guns Halleck heavy heights hill Hooker horse hundred Jackson James River latter line of battle McClellan McClernand meantime miles military Mississippi Morgan morning mountain moved movement Murfreesboro night numbers o'clock Pope Porter position Potomac pressed prisoners railroad Rappahannock reached rear rebel rebellion regiment retreat Richmond road Rosecrans Savage Station sent Sherman shot and shell shout side siege soldiers storm stream struggle Sumter swept Tennessee thousand thunder tion troops Valley Vicksburg victory Washington White Oak Swamp whole wounded
Popular passages
Page 79 - The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Page 80 - ... 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 and the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authority thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons or any of them in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom...
Page 79 - Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Page 79 - In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.
Page 83 - ... order and designate, as the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof respectively are this day in rebellion against the United States...
Page 597 - The arms, artillery, and public property to be parked and stacked, and turned over to the officers appointed by me to receive them. This will not embrace the side-arms of the officers, nor their private horses or baggage.
Page 81 - ... and all slaves captured from such persons or deserted by them, and coming under the control of the government of the United States, and all slaves of such persons found on (or being within) any place occupied by rebel forces and afterwards occupied by the forces of the United States, shall be deemed captives of war, and shall be forever free of their servitude and not again held as slaves.
Page 282 - 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 83 - 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 84 - St. Martin, and Orleans, including the city of New Orleans, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia, except the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Ann, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth, and which excepted parts are, for the present, left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued.