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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... going on while under Confederate Rule - Richmond Papers our only Source of Information - Depressing Stories of Confederate Victories told us - Patriotic Feelings and Expressions of our People - Im- menseness of Lee's Army - Its Probable ...
... going on while under Confederate Rule - Richmond Papers our only Source of Information - Depressing Stories of Confederate Victories told us - Patriotic Feelings and Expressions of our People - Im- menseness of Lee's Army - Its Probable ...
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... going to Washington merely to protest against the enemy's cruelties in conducting the war . " The whole explanation of the affair is that Mr. Stephens was fully empowered , in certain contingencies , to propose peace ; that President ...
... going to Washington merely to protest against the enemy's cruelties in conducting the war . " The whole explanation of the affair is that Mr. Stephens was fully empowered , in certain contingencies , to propose peace ; that President ...
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... going in that direction was known there at any time up to Saturday evening , then the fault was in not forwarding at once this information , and withdrawing him from his perilous position . * General Milroy evidently held on one day too ...
... going in that direction was known there at any time up to Saturday evening , then the fault was in not forwarding at once this information , and withdrawing him from his perilous position . * General Milroy evidently held on one day too ...
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... going on , he was pressing toward our border , and soon , as we will show , made his appearance in our midst . The people who lived along the southern border dur- ing the war were kept in an almost continuous state of anxiety . The ...
... going on , he was pressing toward our border , and soon , as we will show , made his appearance in our midst . The people who lived along the southern border dur- ing the war were kept in an almost continuous state of anxiety . The ...
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... going across the square to ascertain what had become of him , he fell into the hands of Seiders , and soon thereafter joined the object of his solicitude , both of them , however , dismounted and disarmed . Following this call for his ...
... going across the square to ascertain what had become of him , he fell into the hands of Seiders , and soon thereafter joined the object of his solicitude , both of them , however , dismounted and disarmed . Following this call for his ...
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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.