The Military and Naval History of the Rebellion in the United States. With Biographical Sketches of Deceased Officers |
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... reached its climax at about ten o'clock . The heavens were obscured by rain - clouds , and the horizon was as dark as Erebus . The guns were worked with vigor , and their booming was heard with astonishing distinctness , because the ...
... reached its climax at about ten o'clock . The heavens were obscured by rain - clouds , and the horizon was as dark as Erebus . The guns were worked with vigor , and their booming was heard with astonishing distinctness , because the ...
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... reached Market Space , an immense concourse of people closed in behind them and commenced stoning them . When they reached Gay street , where the track had been torn up , a large crowd of men armed with paving - stones showered them on ...
... reached Market Space , an immense concourse of people closed in behind them and commenced stoning them . When they reached Gay street , where the track had been torn up , a large crowd of men armed with paving - stones showered them on ...
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... reached the bay at Galveston on the 5th of March , for the purpose of delivering the year's supply of oil , & c . , to the Bolivar Point and other lighthouses in that vicinity . While he was ab- sent from the vessel , attending to the ...
... reached the bay at Galveston on the 5th of March , for the purpose of delivering the year's supply of oil , & c . , to the Bolivar Point and other lighthouses in that vicinity . While he was ab- sent from the vessel , attending to the ...
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... reached about 10 o'clock . Over a small stream twelve miles from Hampton , a bridge , called County Bridge , crosses on the road to Yorktown . On the opposite side , and to the right , the enemy were posted behind sand batteries . In ...
... reached about 10 o'clock . Over a small stream twelve miles from Hampton , a bridge , called County Bridge , crosses on the road to Yorktown . On the opposite side , and to the right , the enemy were posted behind sand batteries . In ...
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... reached the village of Fair- fax Court House , an order was sent to the left wing to halt , and Gen. McDowell with his staff , escorted by a squadron of dragoons , proceeded to Germantown , where the right wing was halted . It was his ...
... reached the village of Fair- fax Court House , an order was sent to the left wing to halt , and Gen. McDowell with his staff , escorted by a squadron of dragoons , proceeded to Germantown , where the right wing was halted . It was his ...
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Page 27 - 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 319 - States are and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons. And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defence ; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages.
Page 5 - Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed, and that the Union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the United States of America, is hereby dissolved.
Page 319 - I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
Page 318 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free...
Page 318 - 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 363 - When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below ; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and the like could succeed. When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity...
Page 273 - That the executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the United States...
Page 273 - That on the first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state, or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward and forever free...
Page 272 - 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 States that relation is or may be suspended or disturbed.