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... 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 Charleston . These defenses , being of vital con- sequence to both ...
... 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 Charleston . These defenses , being of vital con- sequence to both ...
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... South . Chase , like many another Southern officer , was stirred to his inmost depths by his own change of allegiance . " I have come , " he said , " to ask of you young officers , officers of the same army in which I have spent the ...
... South . Chase , like many another Southern officer , was stirred to his inmost depths by his own change of allegiance . " I have come , " he said , " to ask of you young officers , officers of the same army in which I have spent the ...
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... South Carolina round to Texas . Eight days afterwards he extended it to North Carolina and Virginia . But in the meantime Lincoln had been himself marooned in Washington . On the nineteenth of April , the day he declared his first ...
... South Carolina round to Texas . Eight days afterwards he extended it to North Carolina and Virginia . But in the meantime Lincoln had been himself marooned in Washington . On the nineteenth of April , the day he declared his first ...
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... south by boat with the Eighth Massachusetts , landed at Annapolis , and commandeered a train to run over relaid rails . With them came the news that all the loyal North was up , that the Seventh had marched through miles of cheering ...
... south by boat with the Eighth Massachusetts , landed at Annapolis , and commandeered a train to run over relaid rails . With them came the news that all the loyal North was up , that the Seventh had marched through miles of cheering ...
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William Wood. war was now inevitable , and that defeat for the South would inevitably mean a violent change of all the ways of Southern life , above all , a change imposed by force from outside , instead of the grad- ual change he wished ...
William Wood. war was now inevitable , and that defeat for the South would inevitably mean a violent change of all the ways of Southern life , above all , a change imposed by force from outside , instead of the grad- ual change he wished ...
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