The Great Invasion of 1863 ...: A Statement of the General Sickles Controversy, and Other Valuable Historic PapersW. J. Shuey, 1887 - 581 pages |
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... Cavalry under General Pleasanton - Desper- ate Engagement at Beverly Ford or Brandy Station - Capture of General Stuart's Head - quarters ' Chest containing Lee's Plans- Prompt Measures by General Hooker to Defeat Lee's Purposes- Lee ...
... Cavalry under General Pleasanton - Desper- ate Engagement at Beverly Ford or Brandy Station - Capture of General Stuart's Head - quarters ' Chest containing Lee's Plans- Prompt Measures by General Hooker to Defeat Lee's Purposes- Lee ...
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... Cavalry leaves its Encampment on the South bank of the Rap- pahannock and moves Northward - Precautionary Movements of the Federal Army - The Safety of the National Capital , General Hooker's Paramount Object - Magnificent Strategy ...
... Cavalry leaves its Encampment on the South bank of the Rap- pahannock and moves Northward - Precautionary Movements of the Federal Army - The Safety of the National Capital , General Hooker's Paramount Object - Magnificent Strategy ...
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... Cavalry pass through Carlisle - Falling Back of the Federal Troops under Gen- eral Knipe - Arrival of Longstreet's Corps - General Order by Lee -Humanity of the Confederate Chieftain Commendable Behavior of the Confederates - Lee's ...
... Cavalry pass through Carlisle - Falling Back of the Federal Troops under Gen- eral Knipe - Arrival of Longstreet's Corps - General Order by Lee -Humanity of the Confederate Chieftain Commendable Behavior of the Confederates - Lee's ...
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... Cavalry and part of Imboden's force upon the North Mountain - Defeat of Confederate Cavalry in Mc- Connellsburg by Captain Jones — Ignominious Flight of Pennsyl- vania Militia - Heth's Division of Hill's Corps crosses the South Mountain ...
... Cavalry and part of Imboden's force upon the North Mountain - Defeat of Confederate Cavalry in Mc- Connellsburg by Captain Jones — Ignominious Flight of Pennsyl- vania Militia - Heth's Division of Hill's Corps crosses the South Mountain ...
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... Cavalry Division - Custer , Merritt , and Farnsworth made Brigadier Generals of Cavalry - The Army passes through Frederick City — That place its point of divergence - Erratic Movements of General Stuart - Intercepted by Kilpatrick at ...
... Cavalry Division - Custer , Merritt , and Farnsworth made Brigadier Generals of Cavalry - The Army passes through Frederick City — That place its point of divergence - Erratic Movements of General Stuart - Intercepted by Kilpatrick at ...
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A. P. Hill advance Annals Army of Northern artillery assault attack batteries battle battle of Gettysburg Big Round Top brigade Brigadier-General burg captured cavalry Cemetery Hill Chambersburg Colonel column command Confederate army crossed the Potomac Culp's Hill Culpeper direction division east Eleventh Corps Emmittsburg encamped enemy enemy's engagement eral Ewell federacy Federal army field Fifth Corps fire flank force front Funkstown Gettysburg Greencastle guns Hagerstown Harrisburg head-quarters Hill's Corps Hooker horses hundred infantry invasion Jenkins June Little Round Top Longstreet Major-General Maryland McConnellsburg Meade ment miles Milroy Monday morning moved movement night North Northern Virginia o'clock officers passed Pennsylvania Pickett's pike Pleasanton position rear regiment retreat river road Rodes Round Top says scout Second Corps Seminary Ridge sent Sickles Sixth Corps soldiers South Mountain Southern Stuart Third Corps thousand town troops Twelfth Corps valley wagons Washington Williamsport Winchester wounded
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Page 528 - It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us,— that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to...
Page 553 - The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were, that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature ; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically.
Page 554 - This idea, though not incorporated in the constitution, was the prevailing idea at the time. The constitution, it is true, secured every essential guarantee to the institution while it should last, and hence no argument can be justly used against the constitutional guarantees thus secured, because of the common sentiment of the day.
Page 520 - The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo; No more on life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few. On fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead.
Page 553 - African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically. It was an evil they knew not well how to deal with; but the general opinion of the men of that day was that, somehow or other, in the order of Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away. This idea, though not incorporated in the Constitution, was the prevailing idea at the time.
Page 531 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We are met to dedicate a portion of it as the final resting-place of those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
Page 174 - The commanding general has observed with marked satisfaction the conduct of the troops on the march, and confidently anticipates results commensurate with the high spirit they have manifested. No troops could have displayed greater fortitude or better performed the arduous marches of the past ten days.
Page 554 - Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests upon the great truth, that the negro is not equal to the white man ; that slavery — subordination to the superior race — is his natural condition.
Page 175 - The Commanding General considers that no greater disgrace could befall the army, and through it our whole people, than the perpetration of the barbarous outrages upon the innocent and defenceless, and the wanton destruction of private property, that have marked the course of the enemy in our own country.
Page 365 - A shell tore up the little step of the Headquarters Cottage, and ripped bags of oats as with a knife. Another soon carried off one of its two pillars. Soon a spherical case burst opposite the open door — another ripped through the low garret. The remaining pillar went almost immediately to the howl of a fixed shot that Whitworth must have made.