The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives, Illustrative Incidents, Poetry, Etc, Volume 2Frank Moore G.P. Putnam, 1862 - United States |
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... caused by alarms of , and might have been prevented by the presence of cavalry , no steps are taken to remedy that ... cause of retreat , and therefore no excuse for panic and rout . Again , they say there was only a portion of their ...
... caused by alarms of , and might have been prevented by the presence of cavalry , no steps are taken to remedy that ... cause of retreat , and therefore no excuse for panic and rout . Again , they say there was only a portion of their ...
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... cause , came pouring in among us , trampling down some , and spreading the contagion of their fear among all . It was even then a whirlwind which nothing could resist . The most reluctant of the officers were forced from the valley up ...
... cause , came pouring in among us , trampling down some , and spreading the contagion of their fear among all . It was even then a whirlwind which nothing could resist . The most reluctant of the officers were forced from the valley up ...
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... cause , is a precious and accept- not struck by the enemy's balls . A number of able sacrifice to the Father of Truth and Right ; Georgians fell here , and their graves are close their graves are beside the tomb of Washing- by . In the ...
... cause , is a precious and accept- not struck by the enemy's balls . A number of able sacrifice to the Father of Truth and Right ; Georgians fell here , and their graves are close their graves are beside the tomb of Washing- by . In the ...
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... cause of the country . Any defeat , and especially such a defeat , at the beginning is prejudicial to the right cause , and encouraging to the wrong . But it has neither exhausted our strength , nor our confi- After driving the rebel ...
... cause of the country . Any defeat , and especially such a defeat , at the beginning is prejudicial to the right cause , and encouraging to the wrong . But it has neither exhausted our strength , nor our confi- After driving the rebel ...
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... cause , and faith in Heaven . stricken mob - such things have not been read We seek not for the mere prestige of victory ; we are warring not to decide the skill of rival ciplined troops who bore Scott into Mexico en- of , except on ...
... cause , and faith in Heaven . stricken mob - such things have not been read We seek not for the mere prestige of victory ; we are warring not to decide the skill of rival ciplined troops who bore Scott into Mexico en- of , except on ...
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advance arms army artillery attack battery battle Beauregard Blackburn's Ford bridge brigade Bull Run camp cannon Capt Captain captured cavalry Centreville citizens Colonel column command companies Confederate Congress Constitution declared division duty enemy enemy's engaged Executive Fairfax Court House Federal field fight fire flag flank force ford Fortress Monroe front Government guard guns Hampton's Legion head-quarters Heintzelman hill honor horses hundred infantry July July 23 killed Lieut Lieutenant Major Manassas Manassas Junction mand McClellan McDowell ment miles military Missouri morning nation North o'clock officers party passed patriotic position President prisoners rear rebellion rebels regi regiment retreat Richmond rifled road secession Second sent shot side skirmishers slave soldiers South South Carolina Southern Tennessee thousand tion to-day troops Tyler Union United Virginia Volunteers wagons Warrenton turnpike Washington woods wounded York Zouaves
Popular passages
Page 177 - Texas by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Page 314 - Member. (3.) Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy; and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either House on any question shall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be entered on the Journal.
Page 178 - Government. The Congress, the Executive, and the Court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others.
Page 132 - States, with a request that it might " be submitted to a convention of delegates, chosen in each State, by the people thereof, under the recommendation of its legislature, for their assent and ratification.
Page 318 - Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
Page 314 - House shall be the judge of the elections, returns and qualifications of its own members, and a majority of each shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner and under such penalties as each House may provide.
Page 132 - No political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking down the lines which separate the States, and of compounding ... . the American people into one common mass.
Page 203 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 132 - The assent of the states, in their sovereign capacity, is implied in calling a convention, and thus submitting that instrument to the people. But the people were at perfect liberty to accept or reject it; and their act was final. It required not the affirmance, and could not be negatived, by the state governments. The constitution, when thus adopted, was of complete obligation, and bound the state sovereignties.
Page 217 - Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?