The History of the Confederate War: Its Causes and Its Conduct; a Narrative and Critical History, Band 1Sturgis & Walton Company, 1910 |
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... human suffering caused by a war , especially to the women and children who are war's chief victims . Measured by ... human destinies is still more conspicuous . It made an end of human slavery in the last civil- ized country on earth in ...
... human suffering caused by a war , especially to the women and children who are war's chief victims . Measured by ... human destinies is still more conspicuous . It made an end of human slavery in the last civil- ized country on earth in ...
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... human history is concerned , this war of ours settled at once and for- ever , the vexed and vexatious questions of constitu- tional interpretation that had beset the Republic from the hour of its formation . It revised the constitution ...
... human history is concerned , this war of ours settled at once and for- ever , the vexed and vexatious questions of constitu- tional interpretation that had beset the Republic from the hour of its formation . It revised the constitution ...
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... human conduct and work out the events of human life . The endeavor in these volumes will be to relate that story with absolute loyalty to truth . The writer of these pages is persuaded that the time has fully come when this may be ...
... human conduct and work out the events of human life . The endeavor in these volumes will be to relate that story with absolute loyalty to truth . The writer of these pages is persuaded that the time has fully come when this may be ...
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... human memory equally the achievements of Grant and Meade and Sherman and Thomas and Farragut and the rest , and the record of what Lee and Jackson and Beauregard and the two Johnstons and Stuart and Early and Longstreet had done . It ...
... human memory equally the achievements of Grant and Meade and Sherman and Thomas and Farragut and the rest , and the record of what Lee and Jackson and Beauregard and the two Johnstons and Stuart and Early and Longstreet had done . It ...
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... human affairs . Only by such appreciation of the nature , the mag- nitude and the significance of our war , shall we justly estimate its place in the record of human affairs or properly understand the meaning it is destined to carry ...
... human affairs . Only by such appreciation of the nature , the mag- nitude and the significance of our war , shall we justly estimate its place in the record of human affairs or properly understand the meaning it is destined to carry ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
achieved advance adversary American anti-slavery arms assail assault authority battle battle of Manassas Beauregard behalf blockade campaign capture command Compromise of 1850 Confeder Confederacy Confederate conflict Congress Constitution contest controversy conviction defeat defense disunion dominant effect election enemy equally extremists fact Farragut Federal army fighting force Fort Sumter fought Free-soil party Fugitive Slave Law George Wythe Government Grant guns half Halleck hand Harper's Ferry human J. E. B. Stuart Jackson Johnston Kentucky Lee's Lincoln majority Manassas matter McClellan McDowell McDowell's ment military mind Mississippi Missouri Compromise negro North Northern numbers party peace political position possible Potomac purpose question regarded reinforced Republic resolutions retreat Richmond river seceding secession Senate sentiment side slavery soldiers South South Carolina Southern sovereignty statesmen Stonewall Jackson struggle supreme Tennessee territory thing threatened tion troops Union United utterly Valley victory Virginia volunteers vote Washington
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 181 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.
Seite 119 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Seite 181 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Seite 129 - They had, for more than a, century before, been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations ; and so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect ; and that the negro might justly and lawfully reduced to slavery for his benefit.
Seite 119 - March 6, 1820,) which, being inconsistent with the principle of non-intervention by Congress with slavery in the States and Territories — as recognized by the legislation of 1850, commonly called the Compromise Measures — is hereby declared inoperative and void; it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and...
Seite 92 - Resolved, That it is a fundamental principle in our political creed, that a people, in forming a Constitution, have the unconditional right to form and adopt the Government which they may think best calculated to secure their liberty, prosperity, and happiness...
Seite 347 - As the officers and soldiers of the United States have been subject to repeated insults from the women (calling themselves ladies ) of New Orleans, in return for the most scrupulous non-interference and courtesy on our part, it is ordered that hereafter when any female shall, by word, gesture or movement, insult or show contempt for any officer or soldier of the United States, she shall be regarded and held liable to be treated as a woman of the town plying her avocation.
Seite 402 - If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persons in Washington. " You have done your best to sacrifice this army.
Seite 298 - If I decide this case in favor of my own government, I must disavow its most cherished principles, and reverse and forever abandon its essential policy. The country cannot afford the sacrifice. If I maintain those principles, and adhere to that policy, I must surrender the case itself.
Seite 208 - The whole South is in a state of revolution, into which Virginia, after a long struggle, has been drawn; and though I recognise no necessity for this state of things, and would have forborne and pleaded to the end for redress of grievances, real or supposed, yet in my own person I had to meet the question whether I should take part against my native State.