The Loyal People of the North-west: A Record of Prominent Persons, Places and Events, During Eight Years of Unparalleled American History, Volume 1 |
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... fought on and on , through murky gloom , until triumph came . It was also an era of Providential agencies and deliverances , and each right feeling American , realizes that not more truly did God raise up Moses and Aaron and lead Israel ...
... fought on and on , through murky gloom , until triumph came . It was also an era of Providential agencies and deliverances , and each right feeling American , realizes that not more truly did God raise up Moses and Aaron and lead Israel ...
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... fought those battles ; when Grant , and McClernand , and Hurlburt were the master spirits , and Wallace poured out his life ? ments . Here is made a personal acknowledgment . In the midst of pressing cares and overwork , the health of ...
... fought those battles ; when Grant , and McClernand , and Hurlburt were the master spirits , and Wallace poured out his life ? ments . Here is made a personal acknowledgment . In the midst of pressing cares and overwork , the health of ...
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... fought the canvass through to the hilt ; but the moment the contest was decided , the world was at a loss to know which most to admire , the exuberant joy of the victors , or the admirable gallantry , grace and dignity of the ...
... fought the canvass through to the hilt ; but the moment the contest was decided , the world was at a loss to know which most to admire , the exuberant joy of the victors , or the admirable gallantry , grace and dignity of the ...
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... fought for the Republic . In them were such young men as seldom ever before stood by the recoiling piece , all begrimed with powder , amid the thunders of battle or of siege . May , June and July brought the authorization of the ...
... fought for the Republic . In them were such young men as seldom ever before stood by the recoiling piece , all begrimed with powder , amid the thunders of battle or of siege . May , June and July brought the authorization of the ...
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... fought indomitably at Mechan- icsville , Gaines ' Hill , Savage Station and Malvern Hill , and had seemed to open the way into Richmond , but to the grief and disap- pointment of the American people , had fallen back until resting at ...
... fought indomitably at Mechan- icsville , Gaines ' Hill , Savage Station and Malvern Hill , and had seemed to open the way into Richmond , but to the grief and disap- pointment of the American people , had fallen back until resting at ...
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1st Lieutenant 2d Lieu 2d Lieutenant advance arms army artillery attack battery battle battle of Shiloh Bird's Point brave bravery brigade Brigadier-General Cairo camp campaign Capt Captain captured cavalry charge Chicago Colonel command companies Corinth corps division Donelson duty enemy enemy's engaged enlisted expedition fall back fell field fight fire flag force Fort Donelson Fort Henry fought Fremont gallant Grant gunboats guns honor hundred Illinois regiments ILLINOIS VOLUNTEERS infantry James John Julius White July Kentucky killed land Lieut Lieutenant-Colonel Major Major-General McClernand ment miles military Mississippi Missouri morning moved Mulligan Murfreesboro mustered Nashville night officers Ohio ordered organized patriotic pickets position President prisoners quota Railroad rear rebel rebellion received retreat RICHARD YATES River road sent Sherman skirmishers slavery soldiers South Springfield surrender Tennessee Tennessee River thousand tion traitors troops Union Vicksburg victory wounded
Popular passages
Page 526 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, " the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 525 - Then a statement somewhat in detail of a course to be pursued seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented. The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself, and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory...
Page 88 - ... a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned...
Page 71 - 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 525 - Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God ; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces ; but let us judge not, that we be not judged.
Page 67 - ... their oaths are unanimous. Now, if they would make the effort in good temper, could they not, with nearly equal unanimity, frame and pass a law by means of which to keep good that unanimous oath. There is some difference of opinion whether this clause should be enforced by national or by State authority ; but surely that difference is not a very material one. If the slave is to be surrendered, it can be of but little consequence to him, or to others, by which authority it is done. And should...
Page 68 - I trust this will not be regarded as a menace, but only as the declared purpose of the Union that it will constitutionally defend and maintain itself.
Page 512 - ... proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof, respectively, shall then be in rebellion against the United States; and the fact that any State or the people thereof shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Page 512 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree 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 thenceforward and forever free...
Page 512 - 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, do on this...