The Civil War, Volume 3U.S. Civil War Centennial Commission, 1913 - 63 pages A good introductory booklet surveying the eleven most popular aspects of the 1861-1865 conflict. |
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A. P. Hill advance Arkansas arrived artillery attack Averell Banks Ford Baton Rouge batteries Bayou Bragg brigade campaign captured cavalry Chancellorsville column command Comte de Paris Corinth corps crossed Davis Davis's defended destroy direction division Dorn Dowdall's Tavern driven back enemy enemy's expedition fall back Farragut Federal Army FEDERALS CONFEDERATES fight fire fleet force Fredericksburg front Grand Gulf Grant Grenada gunboats guns Halleck Haynes's Bluff Hazel Grove Hooker Howard's infantry intrenchments ironclads Jackson land Lee's Mahan McClernand McLaws Meade Memphis miles military Mississippi Mississippi River morning moved movement night ordered Orleans Pemberton Plank Road Port Hudson Porter position Potomac railroad rams Rappahannock rear regiments reinforce reported retreat Richmond rifle-pits right flank river Rosecrans Rosecrans's route says Sedgwick sent Sherman Sickles Sickles's Slocum soon Stoneman Stuart Sykes Tennessee troops Turnpike United States Ford vessels Vicksburg woods Yazoo River
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Page 99 - ... that the executive will on the first day of january aforesaid by proclamation designate the states and parts of states if any in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the united states and the fact that any state or the people thereof shall on that day be in good faith represented in the congress of the united states by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters...
Page 100 - And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defence; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. 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 senice.
Page 99 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 74 - I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship. The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for all commanders. I much fear that the spirit which you have aided to infuse into the army, of criticising their commander and withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you. I shall assist you as far as I can to put it down. Neither you nor Napoleon, if he were alive again, could get any good out...
Page 73 - I have placed you at the head of the Army of the Potomac. Of course I have done this upon what appear to me to be sufficient reasons, and yet I think it best for you to know that there are some things in regard to which I am not quite satisfied with you. I believe you to be a brave and skilful soldier, which of course I like.
Page 99 - I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be, "the Union as it was." If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same...
Page 99 - If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery.
Page 233 - When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did, march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below...
Page 74 - I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the Army and the Government needed a dictator. Of course, it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up as dictators. What I now ask of you is military success and I will risk the dictatorship.
Page 98 - States, do order and declare that on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or States wherein the constitutional authority of the United States shall not then be practically recognized, submitted to, and maintained, shall then, thenceforward, and forever be free.