Edwin McMasters Stanton: The Autocrat of Rebellion, Emancipation, and Reconstruction ... |
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... turned to the audience with uplifted hands , which rose in a body in response to his lead . " While pursuing his studies , Stanton attended to the collections , accounts , and small business of Mr. Collier's office , and frequently ...
... turned to the audience with uplifted hands , which rose in a body in response to his lead . " While pursuing his studies , Stanton attended to the collections , accounts , and small business of Mr. Collier's office , and frequently ...
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... turned their procession toward the Democratic grand stand where Stanton was speaking and brought on a terrific riot . Stanton himself was not injured , but others were and the Whigs held him responsible for the bloody emeute . The ...
... turned their procession toward the Democratic grand stand where Stanton was speaking and brought on a terrific riot . Stanton himself was not injured , but others were and the Whigs held him responsible for the bloody emeute . The ...
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... turned him over to Stanton , who opened on him a raking fire of questions . Moodey , in sympathy for the wounded feelings of his witness , turned to Stanton and remonstrated . Stanton , in a gutteral tone , ordered Moodey to make his ...
... turned him over to Stanton , who opened on him a raking fire of questions . Moodey , in sympathy for the wounded feelings of his witness , turned to Stanton and remonstrated . Stanton , in a gutteral tone , ordered Moodey to make his ...
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... turned out four hundred machines . McCormick , in November , 1854 , brought suit in the United States court to prevent the manufacture , sale , and use of the Manny reaper and mower as an infringement upon patents taken out by him in ...
... turned out four hundred machines . McCormick , in November , 1854 , brought suit in the United States court to prevent the manufacture , sale , and use of the Manny reaper and mower as an infringement upon patents taken out by him in ...
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... turned on the priority of inventing the divider . No reaper , however perfect otherwise , could operate successfully without a divider at the outer end of the cutter - bar to separate the standing from the falling grain as the machine ...
... turned on the priority of inventing the divider . No reaper , however perfect otherwise , could operate successfully without a divider at the outer end of the cutter - bar to separate the standing from the falling grain as the machine ...
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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.