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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... proposed to strengthen the army or the navy ; to provide means for their pay , sustenance , the munitions of war , and means of transportation ; and to devise means of embarrassing the government by constitutional quibbles and legal ...
... proposed to strengthen the army or the navy ; to provide means for their pay , sustenance , the munitions of war , and means of transportation ; and to devise means of embarrassing the government by constitutional quibbles and legal ...
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... propose to do with the troops that have crossed the Potomac ? " " To which McClellan replied : " I propose to occupy Charlestown and Bunker Hill , so as to cover the rebuilding of the railway , while I throw over the supplies necessary ...
... propose to do with the troops that have crossed the Potomac ? " " To which McClellan replied : " I propose to occupy Charlestown and Bunker Hill , so as to cover the rebuilding of the railway , while I throw over the supplies necessary ...
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... proposal and adoption of the Peninsular plan with Fortress Monroe as a base . This chapter of our military history is not found among the records to which I have so frequently referred , yet my statements will not suffer for want of ...
... proposal and adoption of the Peninsular plan with Fortress Monroe as a base . This chapter of our military history is not found among the records to which I have so frequently referred , yet my statements will not suffer for want of ...
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... proposed . The first was from the point where the army then lay , near Manassas , directly overland - which was put to a vote and received four in favor of it and eight against it ; the four in favor of it were , I think , Sumner ...
... proposed . The first was from the point where the army then lay , near Manassas , directly overland - which was put to a vote and received four in favor of it and eight against it ; the four in favor of it were , I think , Sumner ...
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... proposed plan of campaign were independent of the influence of the commanding general , while all the rest owed their positions to him , and were especially under his influence , so that instead of eight to four there was but one ...
... proposed plan of campaign were independent of the influence of the commanding general , while all the rest owed their positions to him , and were especially under his influence , so that instead of eight to four there was but one ...
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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.