The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates. Comprising a Full and Authentic Account of the Rise and Progress of the Late Southern Confederacy--the Campaigns, Battles, Incidents, and Adventures of the Most Gigantic Struggle of the World's History |
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... determined to resume the exercise of her rights as a sovereign State ; and for this purpose her Legislature called a Convention . It assembled in Columbia on the 17th of December , 1860 . Its sessions were held in a church , over which ...
... determined to resume the exercise of her rights as a sovereign State ; and for this purpose her Legislature called a Convention . It assembled in Columbia on the 17th of December , 1860 . Its sessions were held in a church , over which ...
Page 86
... determined admonition from the South . But to this art of the demagogue there were plain and forcible replies . Mr. Howell Cobb urged that delay was dan- gerous , and that the Legislature ought to pass an act of secession to be ratified ...
... determined admonition from the South . But to this art of the demagogue there were plain and forcible replies . Mr. Howell Cobb urged that delay was dan- gerous , and that the Legislature ought to pass an act of secession to be ratified ...
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... determination to pursue a course with reference to the mili- tary force and forts in this harbour , which shall guard against such a collision . He has , therefore ... determined to take another step - actually to send troops to Sumter . 7.
... determination to pursue a course with reference to the mili- tary force and forts in this harbour , which shall guard against such a collision . He has , therefore ... determined to take another step - actually to send troops to Sumter . 7.
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... determined to leave by a spe- cial train direct to Washington . Not satisfied with thus avoiding Balti- more , his alarm took the most unusual precautions . The telegraph wires were put beyond the reach of any one who might desire to ...
... determined to leave by a spe- cial train direct to Washington . Not satisfied with thus avoiding Balti- more , his alarm took the most unusual precautions . The telegraph wires were put beyond the reach of any one who might desire to ...
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... determination to evacuate Fort Sumter ; and further that no measures , changing the existing status , prejudicially to ... determined to hold no intercourse with them whatever ; to refuse even to listen to any proposals they had to make ...
... determination to evacuate Fort Sumter ; and further that no measures , changing the existing status , prejudicially to ... determined to hold no intercourse with them whatever ; to refuse even to listen to any proposals they had to make ...
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A. P. Hill advance arms army arrest artillery assault attack bank batteries battle Beauregard Bragg brigade campaign captured Carolina cavalry Charleston column command commenced Confederacy Confederate forces Congress Constitution contest corps crossed D. H. Hill declared defence division early enemy enemy's evacuation Federal field fire flank fleet Fort Sumter Fort Wagner Fredericksburg front garrison Government Grant gunboats guns held Hill hundred infantry Jackson James River Johnston Kentucky Lee's Lincoln Longstreet loss Manassas McClellan ment miles military Mississippi Missouri moved movement night North Northern officers operations Orleans party pieces of artillery political position Potomac President Davis prisoners railroad rear regiments reinforcements retreat Richmond river road Shenandoah Valley Sherman side slavery soldiers South South Carolina Southern success Sumter superiour surrender Tennessee thousand tion troops Union United Valley vessels Vicksburg victory Virginia Washington whole wounded
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Page 42 - Resolved, That the several states composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government; but that by compact, under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States...
Page 115 - Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and 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 35 - The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other for their common defence, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever.
Page 359 - ... 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 378 - Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees...
Page 102 - I have often inquired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept this confederacy so long together. It was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the mother-land, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence which gave liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but, I hope, to the world, for all future time.
Page 217 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so; and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 115 - I deem it proper to say that the first service assigned to the forces hereby called forth will probably be to repossess the forts, places, and property which have been seized from the Union ; and in every event the utmost care will be observed, consistently with the objects aforesaid, to avoid any devastation, any destruction of or interference with property, or any disturbance of peaceful citizens of any part of the country.
Page 83 - Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the "United States of America,
Page 42 - That the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself...