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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... enemy's intrenched camp on the Beverly road , where it crosses Rich Mountain , two miles east of the enemy's position , with orders to advance along the Beverly road and attack the east side of the work - Gen . Mc- Clellan being ...
... enemy's intrenched camp on the Beverly road , where it crosses Rich Mountain , two miles east of the enemy's position , with orders to advance along the Beverly road and attack the east side of the work - Gen . Mc- Clellan being ...
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... enemy with artillery . This movement , the extreme left of all the operations of the day , was intend- ed as a feint , and to hold the enemy in check in case of disaster to the national forces on the right , as the enemy's movement ...
... enemy with artillery . This movement , the extreme left of all the operations of the day , was intend- ed as a feint , and to hold the enemy in check in case of disaster to the national forces on the right , as the enemy's movement ...
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... enemy's pickets were driven in , and soon after the army came in sight of the rebels ' position . McCulloch's camp extended in a valley along Wilson's Creek for three miles , and followed the bends of the streams to the north at its ...
... enemy's pickets were driven in , and soon after the army came in sight of the rebels ' position . McCulloch's camp extended in a valley along Wilson's Creek for three miles , and followed the bends of the streams to the north at its ...
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... enemy from the east side of Bull Run , so as to enable the engineers to make a sufficiently accurate reconnoissance to justify our future movements . Later in the day they had obtained enough information of the passage across the stream ...
... enemy from the east side of Bull Run , so as to enable the engineers to make a sufficiently accurate reconnoissance to justify our future movements . Later in the day they had obtained enough information of the passage across the stream ...
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... enemy did not reply , and after some time it became a question whether he was in any force in our front , and if he did not intend himself to make an attack , and make it by Blackburn's Ford . After firing several times , and obtaining ...
... enemy did not reply , and after some time it became a question whether he was in any force in our front , and if he did not intend himself to make an attack , and make it by Blackburn's Ford . After firing several times , and obtaining ...
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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?