Abraham LincolnHarper & Brothers, 1893 - 542 pages |
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... Potomac , into the valley of the Shenandoah , and settling upon lands which George Washington had surveyed . John Hanks , junior , and John and Thomas Lincoln sold their farms in Union , made their way across the Potomac River , and ...
... Potomac , into the valley of the Shenandoah , and settling upon lands which George Washington had surveyed . John Hanks , junior , and John and Thomas Lincoln sold their farms in Union , made their way across the Potomac River , and ...
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... Potomac , green fields , the City of Washington , the stately Capitol . He was patrician by birth and education , and cast his lot with the slave power . The Secessionists burned the bridges on the railroads leading north from Baltimore ...
... Potomac , green fields , the City of Washington , the stately Capitol . He was patrician by birth and education , and cast his lot with the slave power . The Secessionists burned the bridges on the railroads leading north from Baltimore ...
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... Potomac and the Capitol . The night was calm and still , the full moon shining , when the Union soldiers rolled up their blankets , fell into line , and marched across the Long Bridge . Three regiments crossed at Georgetown . The " Fire ...
... Potomac and the Capitol . The night was calm and still , the full moon shining , when the Union soldiers rolled up their blankets , fell into line , and marched across the Long Bridge . Three regiments crossed at Georgetown . The " Fire ...
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... Potomac below Mount Vernon ? Why not do something to enable the frigate Minnesota , lying at Wash- ington Navy - yard , to reach Chesapeake Bay ? Why allow a handful of Confederates , not more than 4000 in number , to throw up ...
... Potomac below Mount Vernon ? Why not do something to enable the frigate Minnesota , lying at Wash- ington Navy - yard , to reach Chesapeake Bay ? Why allow a handful of Confederates , not more than 4000 in number , to throw up ...
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... Potomac ; that the total Confeder- ate force in Northern Virginia was 115,000 . The reports were greatly exaggerated . We now know the force was only 47,000 . The discontent of the people at the inaction of the army manifested itself in ...
... Potomac ; that the total Confeder- ate force in Northern Virginia was 115,000 . The reports were greatly exaggerated . We now know the force was only 47,000 . The discontent of the people at the inaction of the army manifested itself in ...
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Page 238 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while / shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect and defend
Page 354 - 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 354 - In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth.
Page 110 - thing of evil— prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us, by that God we both adore, Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore: Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore!
Page 487 - If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South, this terrible war, as...
Page 402 - I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the Nation's condition is not what either party or any man devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending, seems plain.
Page 487 - Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding.
Page 217 - My Friends, No one not in my situation can appreciate my feeling of sadness at this parting. To this place, and the kindness of these people, I owe everything. Here I have lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young to an old man. Here my children have been born, and one is buried. I now leave, not knowing when or whether ever I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington.
Page 347 - The President directs that you cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy, or drive him south.
Page 336 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and it is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could do 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.