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... Richmond - ending thus : " Es- pecially the Secretaries of War and Navy , with all their subordin- ates , and the General - in - Chief * will severally be held to strict and full responsibility for the prompt execution of this order ...
... Richmond - ending thus : " Es- pecially the Secretaries of War and Navy , with all their subordin- ates , and the General - in - Chief * will severally be held to strict and full responsibility for the prompt execution of this order ...
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... Richmond numbered 240,000 men could not be true , requested General B. F. Butler to prepare a statement , on the best obtainable evidence , of the enemy's strength about Washington and else- where , and submit it for use . Butler's ...
... Richmond numbered 240,000 men could not be true , requested General B. F. Butler to prepare a statement , on the best obtainable evidence , of the enemy's strength about Washington and else- where , and submit it for use . Butler's ...
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... Richmond , thus increasing the difficulties of carrying out his own plan and the dangers attendant upon making Fortress Monroe his base . Still there were objections and complaints . McClellan wanted to -Approves McClellan's Plans.
... Richmond , thus increasing the difficulties of carrying out his own plan and the dangers attendant upon making Fortress Monroe his base . Still there were objections and complaints . McClellan wanted to -Approves McClellan's Plans.
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... Richmond had been little bet- ter than works of straw , so that at any moment when Lee was absent , the Confederate capital could have been taken without firing a gun . * * Before the Committee on the Conduct of the War , General Gilman ...
... Richmond had been little bet- ter than works of straw , so that at any moment when Lee was absent , the Confederate capital could have been taken without firing a gun . * * Before the Committee on the Conduct of the War , General Gilman ...
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... Richmond and marched to New Orleans . General Butler made a similar statement . McClellan's own commanders swore that he might have taken Richmond five times during his brief peninsular campaign . D. H. Hill , the Confederate general ...
... Richmond and marched to New Orleans . General Butler made a similar statement . McClellan's own commanders swore that he might have taken Richmond five times during his brief peninsular campaign . D. H. Hill , the Confederate general ...
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Page 264 - The Confederate armies now in existence to be disbanded and conducted to their several State capitals, there to deposit their arms and public property in the State Arsenal; and each officer and man to execute and file an agreement to cease from acts of war, and to abide the action of the State and Federal authority.
Page 166 - If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persons in Washington. " You have done your best to sacrifice this army.
Page 414 - Trust no future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, — act in the living present! Heart within, and GOD o'erhead!
Page 146 - Move the remainder of the force down the Potomac, choosing a new base at Fortress Monroe, or anywhere between here and there, or, at all events, move such remainder of the army at once in pursuit of the enemy by some route.
Page 264 - 3. The recognition, by the Executive of the United States of the several State governments, on their officers and legislatures taking the oath prescribed by the Constitution of the United States...
Page 259 - 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 321 - You will transfer to Brevet Major General Lorenzo Thomas, Adjutant General of the Army, who has this day been authorized and empowered to act as Secretary of War ad interim, all records, books, papers, and other public property now in your custody and charge.
Page 259 - Lee's army, or on some minor and purely military matter. 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.
Page 250 - I do solemnly swear, in the 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, and that I will in like manner abide by and faithfully support all...
Page 264 - The executive authority of the government of the United States not to disturb any of the people by reason of the late war so long as they live in peace and quiet, abstain from acts of armed hostility, and obey the laws in existence at the place of their residence.