The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'64 : It's Causes, Incidents, and Results : Intended to Exhibit Especially Its Moral and Political Phases : with the Drift and Progress of American Opinion Respecting Human Slavery : from 1776 to the Close of the War for the UnionO.D. Case, 1867 |
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... heavy loss - Attempts to flank by Drungould's Bluff - Is baffled - Superseded by Gen. McClernand -Who invests and captures the Post of Arkansas- Gen. Grant assumes command - Debarks - Digging the Canal - Proves an Abortion - Yazoo Pass ...
... heavy loss - Attempts to flank by Drungould's Bluff - Is baffled - Superseded by Gen. McClernand -Who invests and captures the Post of Arkansas- Gen. Grant assumes command - Debarks - Digging the Canal - Proves an Abortion - Yazoo Pass ...
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... heavy guns ; they were displeased with the frequent falling on their heads of great branches and tops of the trees behind which they had sought shelter ; and , in fact , the whole conduct of the battle on our part was , to their ap ...
... heavy guns ; they were displeased with the frequent falling on their heads of great branches and tops of the trees behind which they had sought shelter ; and , in fact , the whole conduct of the battle on our part was , to their ap ...
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... heavy earthworks , and all bearing on the approach up the river . The fort itself had but 8 heavy guns mounted in addition to the field batteries of its garrison . Gen. Gideon J. Pillow " had been in command there " until the arrival ...
... heavy earthworks , and all bearing on the approach up the river . The fort itself had but 8 heavy guns mounted in addition to the field batteries of its garrison . Gen. Gideon J. Pillow " had been in command there " until the arrival ...
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... heavy - to bear upon him from Don- elson , as well as the water batteries , to which the gunners returned on observing his predicament , and again poured in their hottest fire . Com . Foote , perceiving victory hopeless , gave up the ...
... heavy - to bear upon him from Don- elson , as well as the water batteries , to which the gunners returned on observing his predicament , and again poured in their hottest fire . Com . Foote , perceiving victory hopeless , gave up the ...
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... heavy guns , which they were unable to take away , had been rolled off the bluff , here 150 feet high , into the river . The 2d Illinois cavalry , Col. Hogg , from Paducah , had entered and taken possession the evening before . A ...
... heavy guns , which they were unable to take away , had been rolled off the bluff , here 150 feet high , into the river . The 2d Illinois cavalry , Col. Hogg , from Paducah , had entered and taken possession the evening before . A ...
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A. P. Hill abatis advance April arms artillery assailed assault attack Banks battle Bragg bridge Brig.-Gen brigade burned Capt captured cavalry charge Chattanooga command Confederate Corinth corps creek crossed D. H. Hill defenses dispatched division enemy enemy's fell fight fire flank fleet Fort Sumter Fortress Monroe Fredericksburg front Grant gunboats guns Harper's Ferry heavy held Hill Hooker horses infantry intrenchments J. E. B. Stuart Jackson Lee's loss Maj.-Gen March McClellan ment miles military Mississippi morning moved movement nearly negroes night officers Ohio Port Port Hudson position Potomac prisoners pushed railroad reached rear Rebel army Rebel force Rebellion rëenforced regiments repulsed retreat Richmond ridge river road Rosecrans routed says sent Sept shell Sherman shot side sion skirmishers Slavery slaves Smith soldiers soon South Carolina strong surrender Tennessee thence tion troops Union vance Vicksburg Virginia woods
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Page 250 - If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 742 - I feel that it is so, and regard it as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility of any further effusion of blood by asking of you the surrender of that portion of the Confederate States army known as the Army of Northern Virginia.
Page 255 - ... of the army and navy of the United States, in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and...
Page 255 - And I further declare and make known that such persons of suitable condition will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service. And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
Page 657 - FOURSCORE and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
Page 657 - But, in a, larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not, consecrate, we can not hallow this ground.. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here; but it can never forget what they did
Page 657 - I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere...
Page 252 - I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America and Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy thereof, do hereby proclaim and declare that hereafter, as heretofore, the war will be prosecuted for the object of practically restoring the constitutional relation between the United States and each of the States and the people thereof in which States that relation is or may be suspended or disturbed.
Page 252 - ... 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 743 - GENERAL : — I received at a late hour your note of to-day. In mine of yesterday I did not intend to propose the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, but to ask the terms of your proposition. To be frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender of this army, but as the restoration of peace should be the sole object of all, I desired to know whether your proposals would lead to that end. I cannot, therefore, meet you with a view to surrender the Army of Northern Virginia,...