The United States of America: A Pictorial History of the American Nation from the Earliest Discoveries and Settlements to the Present Time, Band 3Imperial Publishing Company, 1906 |
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A. P. Hill advance Alabama April arms artillery assailed assault attack bank batteries battle Beauregard Bragg bridges brigade Burnside campaign Captain captured Carolina cavalry Charleston Chattanooga Colonel command Commodore Confederacy confederate army Congress corps Court House crew crossed D. H. Hill Davis defense destroyed division enemy EVENTS OF 1862 federals fight fire flag flank fleet followed force Fort Sumter Fredericksburg front garrison Grant gun-boats guns Harper's Ferry Hill Hooker hundred infantry intrenchments iron-clads Jackson Johnston killed latter Lee's Longstreet McClellan Meade Merrimac miles military Mississippi morning movement night North officers opened ordered passed Petersburg position Potomac President Lincoln prisoners railway Rappahannock re-enforcements reached rear retreat Richmond river road Rosecrans sent Shenandoah Shenandoah Valley Sherman shot side soldiers soon South southern steamer Stonewall Jackson stream Sumter surrender Tennessee thousand took troops union army United vessels Vicksburg Washington wounded
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Seite 304 - God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman'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 that "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Seite 315 - GENERAL: I have received your note of this date. Though not entertaining the opinion you express on the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the army of Northern Virginia, I reciprocate your desire to avoid useless effusion of blood, and therefore, before considering your proposition, ask the terms you will offer on condition of its surrender.
Seite 318 - 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.
Seite 318 - The officers to give their individual paroles not to take up arms against the Government of the United States until properly exchanged ; and each company or regimental commander sign a like parole for the men of their commands.
Seite 112 - I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies — from an army whose business it has been to seek the adversary, and to beat him when found, whose policy has been attack and not defence.
Seite 147 - General McLaws, with his own division and that of General RH Anderson, will follow General Longstreet; on reaching Middletown he will take the route to Harper's Ferry, and by Friday morning possess himself of the Maryland Heights and endeavor to capture the enemy at Harper's Ferry and vicinity.
Seite 271 - 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 98 - McClellan having personally taken the field at the head of the army of the Potomac, until otherwise ordered, he is relieved from the command of the other military departments, he retaining command of the department of the Potomac.
Seite 231 - States military service, about one-half of which number actually bear arms in the ranks; thus giving the double advantage of taking so much labor from the insurgent cause, and supplying the places which otherwise must be filled with so many white men. So far as tested, it is difficult to say they are not as good soldiers as any.
Seite 146 - It is for you to decide your destiny, freely and without constraint. This army will respect your choice, whatever it may be, and while the Southern people will rejoice to welcome you to your natural position among them, they will only welcome you when you come of your own free will.