The Military Policy of the United StatesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1904 - 495 pages |
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... march and in scores of battles dauntless and brilliant courage , strict and successful discipline , and the highest qualities of com- mand . Professor Michie , revered authority , said of him : a " No one can read the story of his ...
... march and in scores of battles dauntless and brilliant courage , strict and successful discipline , and the highest qualities of com- mand . Professor Michie , revered authority , said of him : a " No one can read the story of his ...
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... march from here of two hundred miles with the greatest alacrity . * * * Our Army requires to be put on a different footing . Habituated to order , I can not , without the most extreme pain , see that disregard of discipline , confusion ...
... march from here of two hundred miles with the greatest alacrity . * * * Our Army requires to be put on a different footing . Habituated to order , I can not , without the most extreme pain , see that disregard of discipline , confusion ...
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... March began to throw up works on Dorchester Heights and take other measures which determined on the 17th the evacuation of Boston . During these opera- tions the militia of the neighborhood were called in for the short space of three ...
... March began to throw up works on Dorchester Heights and take other measures which determined on the 17th the evacuation of Boston . During these opera- tions the militia of the neighborhood were called in for the short space of three ...
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... march over dead men , to hear without concern the groans of the wounded - I say few men can stand such scenes unless steeled by habit or fortified by military pride . There must be a good army established ; men engaged for the war ; a ...
... march over dead men , to hear without concern the groans of the wounded - I say few men can stand such scenes unless steeled by habit or fortified by military pride . There must be a good army established ; men engaged for the war ; a ...
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... March , he reported to the President of Congress that from the most accurate estimate he could form , " the whole of our numbers in Jersey , fit for duty at this time , is under 3,000 . These , 981 excepted , are militia and stand ...
... March , he reported to the President of Congress that from the most accurate estimate he could form , " the whole of our numbers in Jersey , fit for duty at this time , is under 3,000 . These , 981 excepted , are militia and stand ...
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Page 31 - The United States in Congress assembled shall have authority to appoint a committee to sit in the recess of Congress, to be denominated " a committee of the States," and to consist of one delegate from each State ; and to appoint such other committees and civil officers as may be necessary for managing the general affairs of the United States, under their direction — to appoint one of their number to preside, provided that no person be...
Page 31 - States an account of the sums of money so borrowed or emitted, to build and equip a navy, to agree upon the number of land forces, and to make requisitions from each State for its quota, in proportion to the number of white inhabitants in such State; which requisition shall be binding, and thereupon the legislature of each State shall appoint the regimental officers, raise the men, and clothe, arm, and equip them in a soldier,like manner, at the expense of the United States; and the officers and...
Page 30 - States in congress assembled, for the defence of such State or its trade; nor shall any body of forces be kept up by any State in time of peace, except such number only as, in the judgment of the United States in congress assembled, shall be deemed requisite to garrison the forts necessary for the defence of such State...
Page 456 - They bore, indeed, this character upon their face, for they were made payable only " after the ratification of a treaty of peace between the Confederate States and the United States of America.
Page 227 - I deem it proper to say that the first service assigned to the forces hereby called forth will probably be to repossess the forts, places, and property which have been seized from the Union...
Page 312 - I feel too earnestly to-night. I have seen too many dead and wounded comrades to feel otherwise than that the government has not sustained this army. If you do not do so now, the game is lost.
Page 30 - The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other for their common defence, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever.
Page 68 - There are four things, which, I humbly conceive, are essential to the well-being, I may even venture to say, to the existence of the United States, as an independent power.
Page 31 - The taxes for paying that proportion shall be laid and levied by the authority and direction of the legislatures of the several states within the time agreed upon by the united states in congress assembled.
Page 31 - The committee of the states, or any nine of them, shall be authorized to execute, in the recess of congress, such of the powers of congress as the united states in congress assembled, by the consent of nine states, shall from, time to time think expedient to vest them with ; provided that no power be delegated to the said committee, for the exercise of which, by the articles of confederation, the voice of nine states in the congress of the united states assembled is requisite.