The American Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events ...: Embracing Political, Civil, Military, and Social Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical IndustryD. Appleton, 1865 |
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... Sherman to one of the Massachusetts agents , doubtless expresses the views of a large class of officers : HEADQ'ES MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI , IN THE FIELD , NEAR ATLANTA , Georgia , July 30th , 1864 . John A. Spooner , Esq ...
... Sherman to one of the Massachusetts agents , doubtless expresses the views of a large class of officers : HEADQ'ES MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI , IN THE FIELD , NEAR ATLANTA , Georgia , July 30th , 1864 . John A. Spooner , Esq ...
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... Sherman assumed command in the early part of the year ; and in May the departments lying west of the Mississippi were formed into the military division of West Mississippi , under the command of Maj . - Gen . E. R. S. Canby . * 1st ...
... Sherman assumed command in the early part of the year ; and in May the departments lying west of the Mississippi were formed into the military division of West Mississippi , under the command of Maj . - Gen . E. R. S. Canby . * 1st ...
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... com- mission . Before the arrival of Gen. Sherman at Meridian , Gen. Polk had eighteen thousand troops , only two thousand of which were vet- erans . The forces in South Carolina and at Savan- nah , ARMY OPERATIONS . 41.
... com- mission . Before the arrival of Gen. Sherman at Meridian , Gen. Polk had eighteen thousand troops , only two thousand of which were vet- erans . The forces in South Carolina and at Savan- nah , ARMY OPERATIONS . 41.
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... Sherman from Vicksburg , Mississippi , to Mer- idian , Alabama ; another under Gen. Smith , from Memphis , Tennessee , to cooperate with Gen. Sherman ; another under Gen. Grant's orders , from Chattanooga , Tennessee , upon Dalton ...
... Sherman from Vicksburg , Mississippi , to Mer- idian , Alabama ; another under Gen. Smith , from Memphis , Tennessee , to cooperate with Gen. Sherman ; another under Gen. Grant's orders , from Chattanooga , Tennessee , upon Dalton ...
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... SHERMAN , Major - General Commanding . The advance of Gen. Sherman's movement , consisting of the 17th corps , under Gen. Mc- Pherson , left Vicksburg on February 3d , in light marching order , with rations for some days . The enemy ...
... SHERMAN , Major - General Commanding . The advance of Gen. Sherman's movement , consisting of the 17th corps , under Gen. Mc- Pherson , left Vicksburg on February 3d , in light marching order , with rations for some days . The enemy ...
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Seite 310 - States provides that the United States shall guarantee to every state in the Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on the application of the legislature or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violen«1.
Seite 330 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Seite 197 - HAIL, holy Light, offspring of heaven first-born, Or of the eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate.
Seite 332 - Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you.
Seite 253 - In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in our view, that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each state in the Convention to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude, than might have been otherwise expected; and thus the Constitution, which we now present,...
Seite 150 - I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton.
Seite 330 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
Seite 273 - Also to the ninth and tenth sections of an act entitled "An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following: "SEC.
Seite 233 - That in the courts of the United States there shall be no exclusion of any witness on account of color, nor in civil actions, because he is a party to, or interested in, the issue tried.
Seite 67 - With this high honor, devolves upon you, also, a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein trusts you, so, under God, it will sustain you. I scarcely need to add, that, with what I here speak for the nation, goes my own hearty personal concurrence.