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... Government for the use of its naval and military posts . So South Carolina , after leading the way to secession on December 20 , 1860 , at once began to work for the retrocession of the forts defending her famous cotton port of ...
... Government for the use of its naval and military posts . So South Carolina , after leading the way to secession on December 20 , 1860 , at once began to work for the retrocession of the forts defending her famous cotton port of ...
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... Government to get the army posts ready for capitulation whenever secession should have become an accomplished fact . He urged on con- struction , repairs , and armament at Charleston , while refusing to strengthen the garrison , in or ...
... Government to get the army posts ready for capitulation whenever secession should have become an accomplished fact . He urged on con- struction , repairs , and armament at Charleston , while refusing to strengthen the garrison , in or ...
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... Government at Washington , he surren- dered with the honors of war and left by boat for St. Louis in Missouri . There was then in Louisiana another Union of- ficer ; but made of sterner stuff . This was Colo- nel W. T. Sherman ...
... Government at Washington , he surren- dered with the honors of war and left by boat for St. Louis in Missouri . There was then in Louisiana another Union of- ficer ; but made of sterner stuff . This was Colo- nel W. T. Sherman ...
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... Government of the United States . The Union - esto perpetua . " Recent events foreshadow a great change , and it becomes all men to choose . . . . I beg you to take immediate steps to relieve me as superintendent , the moment the State ...
... Government of the United States . The Union - esto perpetua . " Recent events foreshadow a great change , and it becomes all men to choose . . . . I beg you to take immediate steps to relieve me as superintendent , the moment the State ...
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... Government ; and I shall so report myself in Washington . If Virginia stands by the old Union , .so will I. But if she se- cedes ( though I do not believe in secession as a constitutional right , nor that there is sufficient cause for ...
... Government ; and I shall so report myself in Washington . If Virginia stands by the old Union , .so will I. But if she se- cedes ( though I do not believe in secession as a constitutional right , nor that there is sufficient cause for ...
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