National History of the War for the Union, Civil, Military and Naval: Founded on Official and Other Authentic Documents, Volume 3Johnson, Fry, 1861 - United States Volume 1. Chapter i-xxix (618 pages) -- Volume 3. Chapter lxxx-cxv (642 pages). |
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... PORT HUD- SON , JULY 7 , 1863 170 XC . - THE SUMMER CAMPAIGN ON THE POTOMAC . BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG , JULY , 1863 . • 181 XCI . - GENERAL BURNSIDE'S DEPARTMENT OF THE OHIO . MORGAN'S RAID AND CAPTURE . OCCUPATION OF EAST TENNESSEE ...
... PORT HUD- SON , JULY 7 , 1863 170 XC . - THE SUMMER CAMPAIGN ON THE POTOMAC . BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG , JULY , 1863 . • 181 XCI . - GENERAL BURNSIDE'S DEPARTMENT OF THE OHIO . MORGAN'S RAID AND CAPTURE . OCCUPATION OF EAST TENNESSEE ...
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... port of the protracted engagement which severely commented on in the Union jour- ensued , " expecting us to go into winter nals , was made the subject of a special quarters at Nashville , had prepared his order by the Confederate ...
... port of the protracted engagement which severely commented on in the Union jour- ensued , " expecting us to go into winter nals , was made the subject of a special quarters at Nashville , had prepared his order by the Confederate ...
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... port any change in his position . Major- General Breckinridge had been trans- ferred to the right of Stone River to re- sume the command of that position , now held by two of his brigades . It was soon reported that no change had -oc ...
... port any change in his position . Major- General Breckinridge had been trans- ferred to the right of Stone River to re- sume the command of that position , now held by two of his brigades . It was soon reported that no change had -oc ...
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... port whether any retrograde movement was being made . Before Wharton had taken his position , observation excited my suspicions in regard to a movement having been made by the enemy across Stone River , immediately in Breckin - left as ...
... port whether any retrograde movement was being made . Before Wharton had taken his position , observation excited my suspicions in regard to a movement having been made by the enemy across Stone River , immediately in Breckin - left as ...
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... interrupted . A pass- port system was introduced for foreign travellers . These novel regulations were attended with many vexations and much like suggestions the delegation replied , that though different opinions 60 WAR FOR THE UNION .
... interrupted . A pass- port system was introduced for foreign travellers . These novel regulations were attended with many vexations and much like suggestions the delegation replied , that though different opinions 60 WAR FOR THE UNION .
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Page 64 - 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 87 - West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Ann, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth, and which excepted parts are, for the present, left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued.
Page 283 - I will henceforth faithfully support, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Union of the States thereunder, and that I will, in like manner, abide by and faithfully support all acts of Congress passed during the existing rebellion with reference to slaves, so long and so far as not repealed. modified, or held void by Congress or by decision of the Supreme Court...
Page 73 - In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth.
Page 66 - ... 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 574 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the...
Page 87 - ... order and designate, as the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof respectively are this day in rebellion against the United States...
Page 65 - 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.
Page 64 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, 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.
Page 598 - 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.