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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... hours half a dozen attempts mission , of the very loudest thunder were made to complete the bridges , but peals . It lasted thus for upward of an each time the party was repulsed with hour , fifty rounds being fired from each severe ...
... hours half a dozen attempts mission , of the very loudest thunder were made to complete the bridges , but peals . It lasted thus for upward of an each time the party was repulsed with hour , fifty rounds being fired from each severe ...
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... hour the ing - places , rushed for the pontoon boats , bridge was completed , and the head of and pushing them into the water , rapidly the column of the right grand division , filled them with twenty - five or thirty consisting of ...
... hour the ing - places , rushed for the pontoon boats , bridge was completed , and the head of and pushing them into the water , rapidly the column of the right grand division , filled them with twenty - five or thirty consisting of ...
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... hour succeeded in driving the enemy from their works , and across a bridge , which they burned . That night , while the pioneers built the burnt bridge , the forces bivouacked on the field and pro- ceeded the next morning to Williamson ...
... hour succeeded in driving the enemy from their works , and across a bridge , which they burned . That night , while the pioneers built the burnt bridge , the forces bivouacked on the field and pro- ceeded the next morning to Williamson ...
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... hour's firing , the fired three shots in the direction of the enemy's guns . The enemy still main- sound , upon which the train immediately tained their admirable position with returned in the direction of Goldsboro ' . sharp - shooters ...
... hour's firing , the fired three shots in the direction of the enemy's guns . The enemy still main- sound , upon which the train immediately tained their admirable position with returned in the direction of Goldsboro ' . sharp - shooters ...
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... hour , the nature of the ground , and the fact that our artillery , cavalry , and a large por- tion of the reinforcements had not yet arrived , it was not advisable to attack their strong second position that evening . During the night ...
... hour , the nature of the ground , and the fact that our artillery , cavalry , and a large por- tion of the reinforcements had not yet arrived , it was not advisable to attack their strong second position that evening . During the night ...
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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.