The War with the South: A History of the Late Rebellion, with Biographical Sketches of Leading Statesmen and Distinguished Naval and Military Commanders, Etc, Volume 3Virtue & Yorston, 1862 - Slavery |
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... gun - boat and four companies of infantry . We captured here the garrison of sixty men and its commander , two heavy guns in position and in good order , a large quantity of ammunition , and the key of the Atchafalaya . " The enemy ...
... gun - boat and four companies of infantry . We captured here the garrison of sixty men and its commander , two heavy guns in position and in good order , a large quantity of ammunition , and the key of the Atchafalaya . " The enemy ...
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... guns fired from the flag - ship in rapid succession testified to the alacrity with which the wager of battle was accepted . " The return of the rebel fire by the Hartford was promptly followed up by a hot fire from the artillery pieces ...
... guns fired from the flag - ship in rapid succession testified to the alacrity with which the wager of battle was accepted . " The return of the rebel fire by the Hartford was promptly followed up by a hot fire from the artillery pieces ...
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... guns astern , the fleet , but remained at the head of giving evidence to the fact that we had the bummers , ' doing admirable service passed some of the batteries . with her heavy guns . " All this time the Richmond had to hang back ...
... guns astern , the fleet , but remained at the head of giving evidence to the fact that we had the bummers , ' doing admirable service passed some of the batteries . with her heavy guns . " All this time the Richmond had to hang back ...
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... gun . ' The gun was got ready and pointed , and was about to be discharged , when Lieutenant Terry called out : ' Hold on ; you are about to fire into the Hartford . ' And such was the fact ; for the flash of the Hartford's guns at that ...
... gun . ' The gun was got ready and pointed , and was about to be discharged , when Lieutenant Terry called out : ' Hold on ; you are about to fire into the Hartford . ' And such was the fact ; for the flash of the Hartford's guns at that ...
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... gun could no longer be brought to bear . Consequently Lieutenant Terry ordered the men on the topgallant fore- castle to leave the guns in that part of the ship , and to descend to the main deck to help work the broadside guns . Our ...
... gun could no longer be brought to bear . Consequently Lieutenant Terry ordered the men on the topgallant fore- castle to leave the guns in that part of the ship , and to descend to the main deck to help work the broadside guns . Our ...
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advance army arrived artillery assault Atlanta attack bank batteries bridge brigade Burnside Captain captured cavalry centre Chattanooga Colonel column command Confederate Court House Creek crossed defence dépôt destroyed direction division driven east enemy enemy's eral expedition Federal fifth corps fight fire five flank fleet followed force Fort Fisher Fort Morgan Fort Sumter Fort Wagner four Fredericksburg front garrison Government gun-boats guns heavy Hill hundred infantry intrenchments killed and wounded loss Major-General ment miles military morning Morris Island moved movement musketry night North Carolina o'clock occupied officers passed Petersburg pickets pontoon bridge port Port Hudson position Potomac prisoners railroad rear rebel regiments retreat Richmond river road second corps sent shell Sheridan Sherman shot side sixth corps skirmishers soon Spottsylvania Court House Station steamer surrender Tennessee thousand tion took town troops Union vessels wagon trains wagons
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Page 668 - He instructs me to say that you are not to decide, discuss, or confer upon any political question. Such questions the President holds in his own hands, and will submit them to no military conferences or conventions. Meantime you are to press to the utmost your military advantages.
Page 284 - Whereas, in and by the Constitution of the United States, it is provided that the President "shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offences against the United States, except in cases of impeachment...
Page 52 - Jackson, or its subsequent approval by the American Congress. And yet, let me say that, in my own discretion, I do not know whether I would have ordered the arrest of Mr. Vallandigham.
Page 285 - ... and so far as not repealed, modified, or held void by Congress or by decision of the Supreme Court; and that I will in like manner abide by and faithfully support all proclamations of the President made during the existing rebellion having reference to slaves, so long and so far as not modified or declared void by decision of the Supreme Court. So help me God.
Page 285 - Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do proclaim, declare, and make known, that, while I am (as I was in December last, when by proclamation I propounded a plan for restoration) unprepared, by a formal approval of this bill, to be inflexibly committed to any single plan of restoration...
Page 404 - I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of this date, at the hands of Messrs. Ball and Crew, consenting to the arrangements I had proposed to facilitate the removal south of the people of Atlanta, who prefer to go in that direction. I inclose you a copy of my orders, which will, I am satisfied, accomplish my purpose perfectly. You style the measures proposed "unprecedented," and appeal to the dark history of war for a parallel, as an act of "studied and ingenious cruelty.
Page 694 - I, , do solemnly swear, in presence of Almighty God, that I will henceforth faithfully support, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Union of the States thereunder...
Page 338 - With this high honor, devolves upon you, also, a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein trusts you, so, under God, it will sustain you. I scarcely need to add, that, with what I here speak for the nation, goes my own hearty personal concurrence.
Page 284 - Those laws and proclamations were enacted and put forth for the purpose of aiding in the suppression of the rebellion. To give them their fullest effect there had to be a pledge for their maintenance. In my judgment, they have aided and will further aid the cause for which they were intended. To now abandon them would be not only to relinquish a lever of power, but would also be a cruel and an astounding breach of faith.
Page 285 - The United States shall guarantee to every state in this Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and, on application of the legislature, or the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened), against domestic violence.