The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'65: 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 Union, Band 2O. D. Case & Company, 1866 |
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... persons are held subject to modification upon further and clearer presentments of facts . It is my pur- pose to revise and correct the following pages from day to day as new light shall be afforded ; and I ask those who may feel ...
... persons are held subject to modification upon further and clearer presentments of facts . It is my pur- pose to revise and correct the following pages from day to day as new light shall be afforded ; and I ask those who may feel ...
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... persons acting as " Commissioners on behalf of the Committee of Public Safety , " cretly appointed by the Convention which had just before assumed to take Texas out of the Union . The 3 4 se- * Feb. 1. The Convention met this day at ...
... persons acting as " Commissioners on behalf of the Committee of Public Safety , " cretly appointed by the Convention which had just before assumed to take Texas out of the Union . The 3 4 se- * Feb. 1. The Convention met this day at ...
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... persons on board , barely 23 escaped injury . Many jumped over- board , frantic with pain , and were drowned ; while the boats sent from the Conestoga to their relief , were fired on by the Rebels with grape and canister , killing most ...
... persons on board , barely 23 escaped injury . Many jumped over- board , frantic with pain , and were drowned ; while the boats sent from the Conestoga to their relief , were fired on by the Rebels with grape and canister , killing most ...
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... persons were killed on the bank , at the very Landing . " 64 He says : " From this agreeable duty [ of praising the meritorious ] , I turn to one in the highest degree unpleasant - one due , however , to the brave men under me , as a ...
... persons were killed on the bank , at the very Landing . " 64 He says : " From this agreeable duty [ of praising the meritorious ] , I turn to one in the highest degree unpleasant - one due , however , to the brave men under me , as a ...
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... persons was a harmless , in- offensive exhibition of their feelings which was never objected to on our side . To vacate a church - pew , quit a street - car , or other public vehicle , upon the entrance of one of our offi- cers , was ...
... persons was a harmless , in- offensive exhibition of their feelings which was never objected to on our side . To vacate a church - pew , quit a street - car , or other public vehicle , upon the entrance of one of our offi- cers , was ...
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Seite 250 - I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 744 - AM to-day could lead to no good. I will state, however, general, that I am equally anxious for peace with yourself; and the whole North entertains the same feeling. The terms upon which peace can be had are well understood. By the South laying down their arms, they will hasten that most desirable event, save thousands of human lives, and hundreds of millions of property not yet destroyed.
Seite 253 - An Act to Suppress Insurrection, to Punish Treason and Rebellion, to Seize and Confiscate Property of Rebels, and for Other Purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following: Sec.
Seite 657 - I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere...
Seite 250 - seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be — "the Union as it was.
Seite 744 - I propose to receive the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia on the following terms, to wit : Rolls of all the officers and men to be made in duplicate, one copy to be given to an officer to be designated by me, the other to be retained by such officer or officers as you may designate.
Seite 255 - 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 158 - I have seen too many dead and wounded comrades to feel otherwise than that the Government has not sustained this army. If you do not do so now, the game is lost.