The war with the south: a history of the late rebellion with biographical sketches of leading statesmen and distinguished naval and military commanders, etc, Volume 1Virtue & Yorston, 1867 - 664 pages |
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Page 39
... immediately so garrisoned , as to make any attempt to take any one of them by surprise or coup de main ridiculous . 39 Scott , always vigilant to preserve the Union , was unheeded by the President , whose feeble will was guided by those ...
... immediately so garrisoned , as to make any attempt to take any one of them by surprise or coup de main ridiculous . 39 Scott , always vigilant to preserve the Union , was unheeded by the President , whose feeble will was guided by those ...
Page 52
... immediately desirable , at any rate legal and justifiable , seemed to stand firm for the Union . Her political writers , in an emphatic protest against the assumed right of South Carolina to individual action , thus rebuked her ...
... immediately desirable , at any rate legal and justifiable , seemed to stand firm for the Union . Her political writers , in an emphatic protest against the assumed right of South Carolina to individual action , thus rebuked her ...
Page 63
... immediately , and issued orders for the occupation of the deserted Fort Moultrie and the other defences of the harbor by the State troops . The Federal arsenal at Charleston , which had been so gen- erously supplied by the treasonable ...
... immediately , and issued orders for the occupation of the deserted Fort Moultrie and the other defences of the harbor by the State troops . The Federal arsenal at Charleston , which had been so gen- erously supplied by the treasonable ...
Page 74
... immediately to withdraw the troops from the harbor of Charleston , and am informed that without this , negotiation is impossible . This I cannot do this I will not do . Such an idea was never thought of by me in any possible contingency ...
... immediately to withdraw the troops from the harbor of Charleston , and am informed that without this , negotiation is impossible . This I cannot do this I will not do . Such an idea was never thought of by me in any possible contingency ...
Page 76
... immediately to the arsenal forty muskets which he had taken to arm his men . You expressed , not to one , but to many , of the most distinguished of our public characters , whose testimony will be placed upon the record whenever it ...
... immediately to the arsenal forty muskets which he had taken to arm his men . You expressed , not to one , but to many , of the most distinguished of our public characters , whose testimony will be placed upon the record whenever it ...
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