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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... military command . " " * * * * * * The President could not refuse to grant Scott's request when thus repeated and enforced . The order of retire- ment was made , and McClellan found himself without a military superior other than the ...
... military command . " " * * * * * * The President could not refuse to grant Scott's request when thus repeated and enforced . The order of retire- ment was made , and McClellan found himself without a military superior other than the ...
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... military action of the government should be " prompt and irresistible , " that " we should crush the rebellion at one blow , and terminate the war in one cam- paign . " It is true that his inspiring rhetoric was addressed to the ...
... military action of the government should be " prompt and irresistible , " that " we should crush the rebellion at one blow , and terminate the war in one cam- paign . " It is true that his inspiring rhetoric was addressed to the ...
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... military authorities . On the 10th of December , Mr. Pendleton , as a member of the Judiciary Committee , submitted to the House , on his own behalf , a minority report , and introduced the follow- ing resolution , in support of which ...
... military authorities . On the 10th of December , Mr. Pendleton , as a member of the Judiciary Committee , submitted to the House , on his own behalf , a minority report , and introduced the follow- ing resolution , in support of which ...
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... the field . We have spent , I know not how many hundred millions of dollars ; and what have we done ? What one evidence of determined war or military skill have we exhibited to foreign nations or our own people LINCOLN AND STANTON . 15.
... the field . We have spent , I know not how many hundred millions of dollars ; and what have we done ? What one evidence of determined war or military skill have we exhibited to foreign nations or our own people LINCOLN AND STANTON . 15.
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... military conduct . After which he proceeded to present his estimate of the plans suggested by the President and himself . He said that two bases of operations seemed to present themselves for the Army of the Potomac , and proceeded to ...
... military conduct . After which he proceeded to present his estimate of the plans suggested by the President and himself . He said that two bases of operations seemed to present themselves for the Army of the Potomac , and proceeded to ...
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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.