The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'64: Its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to Exhibit Especially Its Moral and Political Phases, with the Drift and Progress of American Opinion Respecting Human Slavery from 1776 to the Close of the War for the UnionO. D. Case, 1866 - Slavery |
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... Hill -Col . A. S. Hall defeats Morgan at Vaught's Hill -Gordon Granger repulses Van Dorn at Franklin -Col . A. D. ... A. P. Hill -Lee retires across the Rappahannock - Imboden surprises Charlestown - Gen . D. A. Russell storms ...
... Hill -Col . A. S. Hall defeats Morgan at Vaught's Hill -Gordon Granger repulses Van Dorn at Franklin -Col . A. D. ... A. P. Hill -Lee retires across the Rappahannock - Imboden surprises Charlestown - Gen . D. A. Russell storms ...
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... Hill- Banks retreats to Grand Ecore - Porter works and fights his way down ... Ap- pears before Jefferson City - Gen . Mower follows him from Arkansas ... Hill at Port Walthall Junction - Beauregard arrives from Charleston - Attacks ...
... Hill- Banks retreats to Grand Ecore - Porter works and fights his way down ... Ap- pears before Jefferson City - Gen . Mower follows him from Arkansas ... Hill at Port Walthall Junction - Beauregard arrives from Charleston - Attacks ...
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... Hill - Schofield makes a stand at Franklin- Bloody drawn battle- Heavy Rebel ... ap- proaches Savannah - Hazen storms Fort McAl- lister - Sherman hears from ... Hill - Foster occupies Pocotaligo - Sherman en- ters South Carolina - Pushes ...
... Hill - Schofield makes a stand at Franklin- Bloody drawn battle- Heavy Rebel ... ap- proaches Savannah - Hazen storms Fort McAl- lister - Sherman hears from ... Hill - Foster occupies Pocotaligo - Sherman en- ters South Carolina - Pushes ...
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... A. P. Hill , lower down , was to cross near Meadow Bridge so soon as Branch's movement was discovered , and move ... Hill , while D. H. Hill's in like manner supported Jackson ; thus only Huger's and Magruder's divisions were left in ...
... A. P. Hill , lower down , was to cross near Meadow Bridge so soon as Branch's movement was discovered , and move ... Hill , while D. H. Hill's in like manner supported Jackson ; thus only Huger's and Magruder's divisions were left in ...
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... Hills , Stonewall Jackson , and Ewell . Though the Rebels had quickly discerned and sharply pursued our withdrawal from the Mechanicsville defenses , arriving in front of our new position soon after noon , " it was 2 P. M. before A. P. Hill ...
... Hills , Stonewall Jackson , and Ewell . Though the Rebels had quickly discerned and sharply pursued our withdrawal from the Mechanicsville defenses , arriving in front of our new position soon after noon , " it was 2 P. M. before A. P. Hill ...
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Page 676 - Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God ; and each invokes his aid against the other.
Page 676 - To strengthen, perpetuate and extend this interest, was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union even by war, while the government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it.
Page 657 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting-place for those •who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground.
Page 255 - That the Executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the United States ; and the fact that any State, or the people thereof, shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States, by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Page 250 - If there be those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery.
Page 677 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 255 - Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days, from the day first above mentioned, order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people...
Page 676 - At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement somewhat in detail of a course to be pursued seemed very fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented.
Page 656 - Was it possible to lose the Nation and yet' preserve the Constitution? By general law, life and limb must be protected; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution through the preservation of the Nation.
Page 744 - The arms, artillery, and public property to be parked and stacked, and turned over to the officers appointed by me to receive them. This will not embrace the side-arms of the officers, nor their private horses or baggage.