Lincoln and Stanton: A Study of the War Administration of 1861 and 1862, with Special Consideration of Some Recent Statements of Gen. Geo. B. McClellan |
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... enemy have a force on the Potomac not less than 150,000 strong , well - drilled , and equipped , ably commanded and strongly intrenched . ' I have thus indicated in a general manner the objects to be accomplished and the means by which ...
... enemy have a force on the Potomac not less than 150,000 strong , well - drilled , and equipped , ably commanded and strongly intrenched . ' I have thus indicated in a general manner the objects to be accomplished and the means by which ...
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... enemy , to prevent men in the enemy's lines from quitting their work at digging the enemy's trenches , or bearing the enemy's arms , or serving the enemy in any other manner prejudicial to our cause . * * * * * * * 66 * * * Our generals ...
... enemy , to prevent men in the enemy's lines from quitting their work at digging the enemy's trenches , or bearing the enemy's arms , or serving the enemy in any other manner prejudicial to our cause . * * * * * * * 66 * * * Our generals ...
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... enemy plenty of men to dig their trenches and perform their labor ; so long , I say , as we employ six hundred thousand armed men to secure to the rebels the laborers to raise their crops and provide clothes for the next year , nations ...
... enemy plenty of men to dig their trenches and perform their labor ; so long , I say , as we employ six hundred thousand armed men to secure to the rebels the laborers to raise their crops and provide clothes for the next year , nations ...
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... enemy's communications , while mine would ? " 5th . — In case of disaster , would not a retreat be more dif- ficult by your plan than mine ? ” 1 To this letter no direct reply was made , but a memo- randum of even date , addressed to ...
... enemy's communications , while mine would ? " 5th . — In case of disaster , would not a retreat be more dif- ficult by your plan than mine ? ” 1 To this letter no direct reply was made , but a memo- randum of even date , addressed to ...
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... enemy . The propriety of this demand was so obvious that it opened no ground for cavil . Washington was , and had for months been , a beleaguered city , notwithstanding the fact which , with the official records of both armies now ...
... enemy . The propriety of this demand was so obvious that it opened no ground for cavil . Washington was , and had for months been , a beleaguered city , notwithstanding the fact which , with the official records of both armies now ...
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Page 84 - In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved. I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
Page 84 - I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 84 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased but has constantly augmented. In my opinion it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. ' A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 51 - You will do me the justice to remember I always insisted that going down the bay in search of a field, instead of fighting at or ne'ar Manassas, was only shifting, and not surmounting, a difficulty; that we would find the same enemy, and the same or equal intrenchments, at either place.
Page 61 - And I do hereby enjoin upon and order all persons engaged in the military and naval service of the United States to observe, obey, and enforce, within their respective spheres of service, the act and sections above recited. And the Executive will in due time recommend that all citizens of the United States who shall have remained loyal thereto throughout the rebellion shall...
Page 60 - Unless the principles governing the future conduct of our struggle shall be made known and approved, the effort to obtain requisite forces will be almost hopeless. A declaration of radical views, especially upon slavery, will rapidly disintegrate our present armies.
Page 60 - I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States of America, and Commander-in-chief of the Army and Navy thereof, do hereby proclaim and declare that hereafter, as heretofore, the war will be • prosecuted for the object of practically restoring the constitutional relation between the United States and each of the states, and the people thereof, in which that relation is, or may be, suspended or disturbed.
Page 84 - If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it.
Page 50 - Potomac and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. This presented, or would present, when McDowell and Sumner should be gone, a great temptation to the enemy to turn back from the Rappahannock and sack Washington.