The Military and Naval History of the Rebellion in the United States. With Biographical Sketches of Deceased OfficersD. Appleton, 1865 - 843 Seiten |
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... sent to the relief of the fort by the Government , arrived off Charleston harbor previous to the com- mencement of the assault , but were prevented from entering the harbor by a gale of wind , until after the attack began . The vessels ...
... sent to the relief of the fort by the Government , arrived off Charleston harbor previous to the com- mencement of the assault , but were prevented from entering the harbor by a gale of wind , until after the attack began . The vessels ...
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... sent on shore to clear the wood from Mathias Point , on the Potomac , fifty miles be- low Washington . The party ... sent to Lieut.- Gen. Scott , who delivered it to the President . Gen. Scott sent back as an answer , that the President ...
... sent on shore to clear the wood from Mathias Point , on the Potomac , fifty miles be- low Washington . The party ... sent to Lieut.- Gen. Scott , who delivered it to the President . Gen. Scott sent back as an answer , that the President ...
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... sent her into Georgetown , S. C. , in charge of eight men . On the 3d of June , off Charleston , she fell in with the U. S. brig Perry , which she mistook for a merchant- man , and immediately engaged , but was soon taken . Her crew ...
... sent her into Georgetown , S. C. , in charge of eight men . On the 3d of June , off Charleston , she fell in with the U. S. brig Perry , which she mistook for a merchant- man , and immediately engaged , but was soon taken . Her crew ...
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... sent the battery under Lieutenant Beckham . This officer took up a most favorable position near that house , whence , with a clear view of the Federal right and centre , filling the open fields to the west of the Brentsville - Sudley ...
... sent the battery under Lieutenant Beckham . This officer took up a most favorable position near that house , whence , with a clear view of the Federal right and centre , filling the open fields to the west of the Brentsville - Sudley ...
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... sent in to the inlet to discover what the hauling down of the flags meant . She entered and proceeded within about 600 yards of Fort Hat- teras , when the occupants of that fort com- menced firing upon her , and inflicted serious injury ...
... sent in to the inlet to discover what the hauling down of the flags meant . She entered and proceeded within about 600 yards of Fort Hat- teras , when the occupants of that fort com- menced firing upon her , and inflicted serious injury ...
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advance arms army arrived artillery attack Banks batteries battle boats bridge Brig.-Gen brigade Burnside camp Capt captured cavalry Centreville citizens command commenced Confederate army Confederate force Corinth corps Creek crossed D. H. Hill defence Department despatch destroyed division of Gen enemy enemy's Federal force Ferry fire flag flank force of Gen Fort Sumter Fortress Monroe Fredericksburg front Government Governor gunboats guns Halleck Harper's Ferry HEADQUARTERS hundred infantry Island Jackson junction Kentucky killed large number loss Maj.-Gen Manassas mand McClellan McDowell ment miles military Mississippi Missouri morning moved movement night North o'clock occupied officers Ohio passed Port Port Hudson position Potomac President prisoners railroad rear reënforcements regiments retreat Richmond rifle river road Rosecrans secession Secretary of War sent side skirmish soldiers South Carolina steamer surrender Tennessee thousand tion troops Union United vessels Vicksburg Virginia Warrenton Washington wounded
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Seite 27 - Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Seite 319 - States are and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons. And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defence ; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages.
Seite 5 - Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed, and that the Union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the United States of America, is hereby dissolved.
Seite 319 - I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
Seite 318 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free...
Seite 318 - Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and 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...
Seite 363 - When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below ; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and the like could succeed. When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity...
Seite 273 - 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...
Seite 273 - That on the first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state, or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward and forever free...
Seite 272 - I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States of America, and Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy thereof, do hereby proclaim and declare that hereafter, as heretofore, the war will be prosecuted for the object of practically restoring the constitutional relation between the United States and each of the States and the people thereof, in which States that relation is or may be suspended or disturbed.