The Civil WarCharles Lester Barstow 1912 - United States |
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A. P. Hill Abraham Lincoln Alabama April arms army arrived artillery attack battery battle Battle of MCDOWELL Beauregard boat bombardment brigade Brigadier-General called capitol captured cavalry cheered Colonel command Confederate Cushing defenses District division Donelson duty enemy enemy's engaged Farragut Federal fight fire flag flank fleet force Fort Donelson Fort Jackson Fort Monroe Fort Sumter forts Frémont front garrison gave Government Grant gun-boats guns hand heavy horse hour infantry intrenchments iron-clad Jackson James Johnston Kearsarge Lee's Lincoln Longstreet Major Anderson MAJOR-GENERAL McClellan ment miles military Mississippi morning navy never night North officers Orleans passed port position Potomac President reached rear received regiments replied Richmond river Secretary sent shell Shiloh ship shot side soldiers soon South Stonewall Jackson Sumter surrender Swift Run Gap tion took troops Union United Valley vessels victory Virginia Central Railroad volunteers Washington wounded
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Page 2 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword. His truth is marching on.
Page 145 - I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming...
Page 144 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final restingplace for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.
Page 142 - Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion...
Page 142 - ... the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof, respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit : Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, (except the parishes of St.
Page 141 - I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty, and I intend no modification of my oftexpressed personal wish that all men, everywhere, could be free.
Page 146 - I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I cannot remember when I did not so think and feel, and yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling.
Page 213 - This is a world of compensation; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
Page 141 - That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, 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...
Page 143 - And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are and henceforward shall be free...