The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'65: Its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to Exhibit Especially Its Moral and Political Phases, with the Drift and Progress of American Opinion Respecting Human Slavery from 1776 to the Close of the War for the Union, Volume 2O. D. Case & Company, 1866 - Slavery |
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... position , and destroyed a yell , revolver and knife in either hand . part of their train , also a cannon , Our forces scarcely waited to be in which he spiked ; when , learning that danger before breaking and flying in Slough was ...
... position , and destroyed a yell , revolver and knife in either hand . part of their train , also a cannon , Our forces scarcely waited to be in which he spiked ; when , learning that danger before breaking and flying in Slough was ...
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... position , and pouring grape and shell into the pursuing masses , until their advance was arrested and disorganized , when he would limber up and fall back to the next eleva- tion or turn in the road , where he would renew the ...
... position , and pouring grape and shell into the pursuing masses , until their advance was arrested and disorganized , when he would limber up and fall back to the next eleva- tion or turn in the road , where he would renew the ...
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... position ; but no shot was fired by the enemy . At length , Cur- tis ordered Col. Davis , in our center , to begin the day's work . He was instantly replied to from new bat- teries and lines which the Rebels had prepared during the ...
... position ; but no shot was fired by the enemy . At length , Cur- tis ordered Col. Davis , in our center , to begin the day's work . He was instantly replied to from new bat- teries and lines which the Rebels had prepared during the ...
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... position un tenable . Stuart fell back to the next ridge ; and , finding the Rebels who had followed Prentiss beginning to come in on his right , sent to Gen. W. H. L. Wallace for assistance . Gen. McArthur's brigade was promptly ...
... position un tenable . Stuart fell back to the next ridge ; and , finding the Rebels who had followed Prentiss beginning to come in on his right , sent to Gen. W. H. L. Wallace for assistance . Gen. McArthur's brigade was promptly ...
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... position in front of Pitts - vannah that there was nothing going burg ; and , after a severe battle of ten hours , thanks to Almighty God , gained a complete victory , driving the enemy from every position . Before seeking his couch in ...
... position in front of Pitts - vannah that there was nothing going burg ; and , after a severe battle of ten hours , thanks to Almighty God , gained a complete victory , driving the enemy from every position . Before seeking his couch in ...
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Page 250 - I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Page 657 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting-place for those •who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground.
Page 255 - 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, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and...
Page 744 - AM to-day could lead to no good. I will state, however, general, that I am equally anxious for peace with yourself; and the whole North entertains the same feeling. The terms upon which peace can be had are well understood. By the South laying down their arms, they will hasten that most desirable event, save thousands of human lives, and hundreds of millions of property not yet destroyed.
Page 253 - An Act to Suppress Insurrection, to Punish Treason and Rebellion, to Seize and Confiscate Property of Rebels, and for Other Purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following: Sec.
Page 657 - 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. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere...
Page 250 - seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be — "the Union as it was.
Page 744 - I propose to receive the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia on the following terms, to wit : Rolls of all the officers and men to be made in duplicate, one copy to be given to an officer to be designated by me, the other to be retained by such officer or officers as you may designate.
Page 255 - 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 158 - I have seen too many dead and wounded comrades to feel otherwise than that the Government has not sustained this army. If you do not do so now, the game is lost.