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States, inasmuch as before that time Washington would be captured, and the capital of the nation and the archives and muniments of the government would be in the possession of the Confederates. In full accordance also with this threat, it was declared...

Address of Hon. Edward Everett, at the Consecration of the National Cemetery ... - Page 37
by Edward Everett - 1864 - 87 pages
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The Gettysburg Gospel: The Lincoln Speech that Nobody Knows

G. S. Boritt, Robert C Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies and Director of the Civil War Institute Gabor Boritt - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 433 pages

...was declared by the rebel Secretary of War at Montgomery, in the presence of his colleagues, which the tidings of the assault on Sumter were travelling over the wires on that fatal 12th of {May} April, that before the end of May "the flag which now flaunted the breeze (as he expressed it)...

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