The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives, Illustrative Incidents, Poetry, Etc, Volume 2Frank Moore G.P. Putnam, 1862 - United States |
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... carrying on his back a wounded comrade named Bess , who had four musket balls shot into him . John Williams , coxswain of the third cutter , received a flesh wound in the leg while waving the Stars and Stripes , which he carried in his ...
... carrying on his back a wounded comrade named Bess , who had four musket balls shot into him . John Williams , coxswain of the third cutter , received a flesh wound in the leg while waving the Stars and Stripes , which he carried in his ...
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... carried to Wheel- ing by order of the Governor , from the Ex- change Bank of Weston , Virginia , where it had been placed to the credit of the Western Lunatic Asylum by the State authorities . Capt . List was commissioned by Gov ...
... carried to Wheel- ing by order of the Governor , from the Ex- change Bank of Weston , Virginia , where it had been placed to the credit of the Western Lunatic Asylum by the State authorities . Capt . List was commissioned by Gov ...
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... carried down a number of passengers who joined the Confed- erate army . The seizure was to prevent their being taken ... carry back with him any very encouraging tidings . One object may have been to occupy the attention of our ...
... carried down a number of passengers who joined the Confed- erate army . The seizure was to prevent their being taken ... carry back with him any very encouraging tidings . One object may have been to occupy the attention of our ...
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... carried off prisoners . The rest of the party escaped . - Baltimore American , July 20 . -By an order from the War Department at Washington , it was forbidden to muster any soldier into the service who is unable to speak the English ...
... carried off prisoners . The rest of the party escaped . - Baltimore American , July 20 . -By an order from the War Department at Washington , it was forbidden to muster any soldier into the service who is unable to speak the English ...
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... carried there across the bay into the Rappahannock and York rivers , and thence transported by way of Fredericksburg ... carrying these supplies leave ports as coasters for Maryland , and manage to land their cargoes just below the ...
... carried there across the bay into the Rappahannock and York rivers , and thence transported by way of Fredericksburg ... carrying these supplies leave ports as coasters for Maryland , and manage to land their cargoes just below the ...
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advance arms army artillery attack battery battle Beauregard Blackburn's Ford bridge brigade Bull Run camp cannon Capt Captain captured cavalry Centreville citizens Colonel column command companies Confederate Congress Constitution declared division duty enemy enemy's engaged Executive Fairfax Court House Federal field fight fire flag flank force ford Fortress Monroe front Government guard guns Hampton's Legion head-quarters Heintzelman hill honor horses hundred infantry July July 23 killed Lieut Lieutenant Major Manassas Manassas Junction mand McClellan McDowell ment miles military Missouri morning nation North o'clock officers party passed patriotic position President prisoners rear rebellion rebels regi regiment retreat Richmond rifled road secession Second sent shot side skirmishers slave soldiers South South Carolina Southern Tennessee thousand tion to-day troops Tyler Union United Virginia Volunteers wagons Warrenton turnpike Washington woods wounded York Zouaves
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Page 177 - 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 314 - Member. (3.) Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy; and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either House on any question shall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be entered on the Journal.
Page 178 - Government. The Congress, the Executive, and the Court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others.
Page 132 - States, with a request that it might " be submitted to a convention of delegates, chosen in each State, by the people thereof, under the recommendation of its legislature, for their assent and ratification.
Page 318 - Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
Page 314 - House shall be the judge of the elections, returns and qualifications of its own members, and a majority of each shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner and under such penalties as each House may provide.
Page 132 - No political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking down the lines which separate the States, and of compounding ... . the American people into one common mass.
Page 203 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 132 - The assent of the states, in their sovereign capacity, is implied in calling a convention, and thus submitting that instrument to the people. But the people were at perfect liberty to accept or reject it; and their act was final. It required not the affirmance, and could not be negatived, by the state governments. The constitution, when thus adopted, was of complete obligation, and bound the state sovereignties.
Page 217 - Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?