The Great Rebellion: A History of the Civil War in the United States, Volume 1 |
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... Valley - Hazen's Exploit - Battle of Wauhatchie - Sherman's Arrival - The Army takes up its Assigned Position - Grant's Plan- Capture of Lookout Mountain - Battle Above the Clouds - The Battle of Missionary Ridge - The Victory - Pursuit ...
... Valley - Hazen's Exploit - Battle of Wauhatchie - Sherman's Arrival - The Army takes up its Assigned Position - Grant's Plan- Capture of Lookout Mountain - Battle Above the Clouds - The Battle of Missionary Ridge - The Victory - Pursuit ...
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... Valley - Grant's Instructions to Butler - Folly of Placing the Latter in the Important Position he Held - Number of the Troops Co - operating directly with Grant — Our Entire Military Force - Grant's Plan of Campaign -Advance of the ...
... Valley - Grant's Instructions to Butler - Folly of Placing the Latter in the Important Position he Held - Number of the Troops Co - operating directly with Grant — Our Entire Military Force - Grant's Plan of Campaign -Advance of the ...
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... Valley- Spottsylvania Flanked - The Race for the North Anna River - Han- cock's and Warren's Corps - Fight of the Latter at Jericho Ford- Gallantry of Griffin - Assault of a Redan by Hancock - Gallant Charge - The Enemy Falls Back to ...
... Valley- Spottsylvania Flanked - The Race for the North Anna River - Han- cock's and Warren's Corps - Fight of the Latter at Jericho Ford- Gallantry of Griffin - Assault of a Redan by Hancock - Gallant Charge - The Enemy Falls Back to ...
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... Valley - Wilson's Expedition - Defeat of the Second and Sixth Corps near the Weldon Railroad - A Gloomy Prospect - Operations along the Atlantic Coast - Capture of the Water Witch - Federal Officers placed under Fire at Charleston - Mr ...
... Valley - Wilson's Expedition - Defeat of the Second and Sixth Corps near the Weldon Railroad - A Gloomy Prospect - Operations along the Atlantic Coast - Capture of the Water Witch - Federal Officers placed under Fire at Charleston - Mr ...
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... Valley - Grant Visits Hunter - His Letter of In- structions - Sheridan put in his Place - Political Events - Five Hun- dred Thousand Troops called for - Peace Negotiations -- Jacques and Kirk - Greeley , Jewett , Sanders and Others ...
... Valley - Grant Visits Hunter - His Letter of In- structions - Sheridan put in his Place - Political Events - Five Hun- dred Thousand Troops called for - Peace Negotiations -- Jacques and Kirk - Greeley , Jewett , Sanders and Others ...
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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
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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.