The Great Rebellion: A History of the Civil War in the United States, Volume 1 |
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... woods . Seymour's brigade held the left , reaching from the river to a little beyond Ellison's Mills - woods and open ground alternating - and Reynolds the right , mostly in the woods . Felled timbers and rifle pits strengthened the ...
... woods . Seymour's brigade held the left , reaching from the river to a little beyond Ellison's Mills - woods and open ground alternating - and Reynolds the right , mostly in the woods . Felled timbers and rifle pits strengthened the ...
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... woods held by Brooks ' brigade . About four o'clock the rebels , in overpowering masses , came mov- ing down the Williamsburg road , and fell with savage fury on Burns ' brigade . They could not have selected a worse point of attack ...
... woods held by Brooks ' brigade . About four o'clock the rebels , in overpowering masses , came mov- ing down the Williamsburg road , and fell with savage fury on Burns ' brigade . They could not have selected a worse point of attack ...
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... woods , dashed on a run across the intervening space , and swept up , in one black overwhelming tide , towards the batteries . But when they came within reach of the musketry , the volleys were too murderous for flesh and blood to ...
... woods , dashed on a run across the intervening space , and swept up , in one black overwhelming tide , towards the batteries . But when they came within reach of the musketry , the volleys were too murderous for flesh and blood to ...
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... woods on the extreme right , contended with equal gallantry against the same hope- less odds ; but were also compelled to fall back . The bat- tle proper , lasted scarcely more than thirty minutes , and yet , in that short space of time ...
... woods on the extreme right , contended with equal gallantry against the same hope- less odds ; but were also compelled to fall back . The bat- tle proper , lasted scarcely more than thirty minutes , and yet , in that short space of time ...
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... woods were thickly strewn with the dead ; but , at five o'clock , Heintzelman and Reno made a furious charge on the enemy's left , which doubled it up , and forced it back , so that , when darkness put an end to the strife , we were ...
... woods were thickly strewn with the dead ; but , at five o'clock , Heintzelman and Reno made a furious charge on the enemy's left , which doubled it up , and forced it back , so that , when darkness put an end to the strife , we were ...
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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.