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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... Movement in New Orleans . - A Call for an Army in South Carolina . - Resignation of the United States Senators from South Carolina . - Tendency to Rebellion in the other Slave States . - Action of the Legislature of Georgia . - Florida ...
... Movement in New Orleans . - A Call for an Army in South Carolina . - Resignation of the United States Senators from South Carolina . - Tendency to Rebellion in the other Slave States . - Action of the Legislature of Georgia . - Florida ...
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... movement everywhere will be encouraged to make another effort to rally their now disorganized and scattered forces to defeat our action and stay our onward march . Fabius conquered by delay , and there are those of his school , though ...
... movement everywhere will be encouraged to make another effort to rally their now disorganized and scattered forces to defeat our action and stay our onward march . Fabius conquered by delay , and there are those of his school , though ...
Page 55
... movement should be instituted at the earliest possible moment to arrest the progress of events which seem to be rapidly hurrying the Government of the Union to dismemberment , as an initia- tory step I have , with great diffidence ...
... movement should be instituted at the earliest possible moment to arrest the progress of events which seem to be rapidly hurrying the Government of the Union to dismemberment , as an initia- tory step I have , with great diffidence ...
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... movement . movement . All doubt , however , was soon removed by the arrival in the city of some of the inhabitants of Sullivan's Island . When the fact became known , the ex- citement increased . The convention met immediately , and ...
... movement . movement . All doubt , however , was soon removed by the arrival in the city of some of the inhabitants of Sullivan's Island . When the fact became known , the ex- citement increased . The convention met immediately , and ...
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... movement of a Fed- eral officer from one Federal fort to an- other an act of war . " Major Robert Anderson , United States army , " wrote a journalist , * " has achieved the unen- viable distinction of opening civil war between American ...
... movement of a Fed- eral officer from one Federal fort to an- other an act of war . " Major Robert Anderson , United States army , " wrote a journalist , * " has achieved the unen- viable distinction of opening civil war between American ...
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