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... Hardee were present . And it was decided that Fort Henry having fallen , and the Union army being in possession of the Tennessee , navigable for gunboats and transports to Florence , Ala . , that the forces at Columbus and Bowling Green ...
... Hardee were present . And it was decided that Fort Henry having fallen , and the Union army being in possession of the Tennessee , navigable for gunboats and transports to Florence , Ala . , that the forces at Columbus and Bowling Green ...
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... Hardee and the second , about five hundred yards to the rear , under Major- General Braxton Bragg . The corps of Major - General Leonidas Polk followed the second line at a distance of about eight hundred yards , in brigades deployed ...
... Hardee and the second , about five hundred yards to the rear , under Major- General Braxton Bragg . The corps of Major - General Leonidas Polk followed the second line at a distance of about eight hundred yards , in brigades deployed ...
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... Hardee's corps . He had a hundred and ninety men , eight flankers on the right and twenty - two on the left . An advance party of seven men was posted two hundred yards in front of his centre , and another party of eight , a hundred ...
... Hardee's corps . He had a hundred and ninety men , eight flankers on the right and twenty - two on the left . An advance party of seven men was posted two hundred yards in front of his centre , and another party of eight , a hundred ...
Page 213
... Hardee's troops had just withdrawn from their advance against Sherman and McClernand . And they too turned and , crossing the ravine of Brier Creek , advanced on the same plateau from the other side . Thus the two lines of Bragg and Hardee ...
... Hardee's troops had just withdrawn from their advance against Sherman and McClernand . And they too turned and , crossing the ravine of Brier Creek , advanced on the same plateau from the other side . Thus the two lines of Bragg and Hardee ...
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... Hardee every corps commander of the Confederate army . In the effort to reach him , the commander - in - chief , General Johnston , had also fallen . But Prentiss ' heroic resistance , supported by Wallace on one side and Hurlbut on the ...
... Hardee every corps commander of the Confederate army . In the effort to reach him , the commander - in - chief , General Johnston , had also fallen . But Prentiss ' heroic resistance , supported by Wallace on one side and Hurlbut on the ...
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Page 26 - ... so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; M Howard and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced p.
Page 174 - Yours of this date, proposing armistice and appointment of Commissioners to settle terms of capitulation, is just received. No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
Page 33 - They have seen in his round, jolly, fruitful face, post-offices, land-offices, marshalships, and cabinet appointments, chargeships, and foreign missions, bursting and sprouting out in wonderful exuberance, ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands. And as they have been gazing upon this attractive picture so long, they cannot, in the little distraction that has taken place in the party, bring themselves to give up the charming hope ; but with greedier anxiety they rush about him, sustain him,...
Page 76 - I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend" it. I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break, our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better...
Page 35 - And now I will only say that when, by all these means and appliances, Judge Douglas shall succeed in bringing public sentiment to an exact accordance with his own views — when these vast assemblages shall echo back all these sentiments — when they shall come to repeat his views and to avow his principles, and to say all that he says on these mighty questions — then it needs only the formality of the second Dred Scott decision, which he indorses in advance, to make slavery alike lawful in all...
Page 67 - The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically.
Page 76 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 174 - SIR :—In consideration of all the circumstances governing the present situation of affairs at this station, I propose to the Commanding Officer of the Federal forces the appointment of Commissioners to agree upon terms of capitulation of the forces and fort under my command, and in that view suggest an armistice until 12 o'clock to-day. I am, sir, very respectfully, Your ob't se'v't, SB BUCKNER, Brig. Gen. CSA To Brigadier-General US GRANT, Com'ding US Forces, Near Fort Donelson.
Page 67 - Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests upon, the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that Slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.
Page 33 - Senator Douglas is of world-wide renown. All the anxious politicians of his party, or who have been of his party for years past, have been looking upon him as certainly, at no distant day, to be the President of the United States. They have seen in his round, jolly, fruitful face, post-offices, land-offices, marshalships and cabinet appointments, chargeships and foreign missions, bursting and sprouting out in wonderful exuberance, ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands.