The Civil War, Volume 1A good introductory booklet surveying the eleven most popular aspects of the 1861-1865 conflict. |
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advance arms arrived attack attempt authorities batteries battle Beauregard brigade Buchanan Buell Bull Run campaign capture Castle Pinckney Centreville certainly Charleston Harbor civil command Confederacy Confederate army Cumberland Davis defence division divisions of Hunter doubt duty East Tennessee enemy enemy's evacuate existed expected fact Federal army fight force fords Fort Monroe Fort Moultrie Fort Sumter forts garrison General-in-chief Government Halleck Heintzelman Henry House hostile importance Johnston Kentucky Lincoln Major Anderson March matter McClellan McDowell McDowell's ment Merrimac mile military Mississippi Monroe Moultrie movement Nashville nation North Northern occupied officers operations opinion parties position possession Potomac President question railroad REESE regiments reinforcements Richmond River roads seceding secession Secretary Secretary of War sent Shenandoah Valley Sherman situation soldiers South Carolina Southern success Sumter superior supplies task tion troops turnpike Union United Urbana Virginia Warrenton Warrenton turnpike Washington West
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Page 21 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government...
Page 73 - I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken; and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States.
Page 75 - The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed, in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation® in 1778.
Page 38 - ... of them will be regarded as an act of hostility, and you may then put your command into either of them which you may deem most proper to increase its power of resistance.
Page 38 - You are carefully to avoid every act which would needlessly tend to provoke aggression, and for that reason you are not, without necessity, to take up any position which could be construed into the assumption of a hostile attitude...
Page 91 - Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Page 217 - ... [President's General War Order No. 1 .] "EXECUTIVE MANSION, " Washington, January 27, 1862. " Ordered, That the 22d day of February, 1862, be the day for a general movement of the land and naval forces of the United States against the insurgent forces. That especially the army at and about Fortress Monroe, the army of the Potomac, the army of Western Virginia, the army near Munfordsville, Kentucky, the army and flotilla at Cairo, and a naval force in the Gulf of Mexico, be ready to move on that...
Page 225 - That any movement as aforesaid, en route for a new base of operations, which may be ordered by the General-in-Chief, and which may...
Page 32 - Charleston, previously to the action of the convention, and, we hope and believe, not until an offer has been made, through an accredited representative, to negotiate for an amicable arrangement of all matters between the State and the Federal Government, provided that no reinforcements shall be sent into those forts, and their relative military status shall remain as at present.
Page 50 - Whenever, in your judgment, additional supplies or reinforcements are necessary for your safety or for a successful defence of the fort, you will at once communicate the fact to this Department, and a prompt 'and vigorous effort will be made to forward them.