Slavery and Four Years of War: A Political History of Slavery in the United States, Together with a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War in which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865, Volume 2G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1900 |
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... LEE'S RETREAT ACROSS THE POTOMAC , AND LOSSES ON BOTH SIDES CHAPTER III PAGE I · 22 NEW YORK RIOTS , 1863 - PURSUIT OF LEE'S ARMY TO THE RAPPAHANNOCK - ACTION OF WAPPING HEIGHTS , AND SKIRMISHES - WESTERN TROOPS SENT TO NEW YORK TO ...
... LEE'S RETREAT ACROSS THE POTOMAC , AND LOSSES ON BOTH SIDES CHAPTER III PAGE I · 22 NEW YORK RIOTS , 1863 - PURSUIT OF LEE'S ARMY TO THE RAPPAHANNOCK - ACTION OF WAPPING HEIGHTS , AND SKIRMISHES - WESTERN TROOPS SENT TO NEW YORK TO ...
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... , AND MINOR EVENTS . CHAPTER X - 94 104 . 118 BATTLE OF CEDAR CREEK , OCTOBER 19 , 1864 , WITH COM- MENTS THEREON - ALSO PERSONAL MENTION AND INCIDENTS 128 CHAPTER XI PEACE NEGOTIATIONS - LEE'S SUGGESTION TO JEFFERSON DAVIS iv Contents.
... , AND MINOR EVENTS . CHAPTER X - 94 104 . 118 BATTLE OF CEDAR CREEK , OCTOBER 19 , 1864 , WITH COM- MENTS THEREON - ALSO PERSONAL MENTION AND INCIDENTS 128 CHAPTER XI PEACE NEGOTIATIONS - LEE'S SUGGESTION TO JEFFERSON DAVIS iv Contents.
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... LEE'S SUGGESTION TO JEFFERSON DAVIS , 1862- FERNANDO WOOD'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH MR . LINCOLN , 1862 - MR . STEPHENS AT FORTRESS MON- ROE , 1863 - HORACE GREELEY , NIAGARA FALLS CONFER- ENCE , 1864 - JACQUESS - GILMORE'S VISITS TO ...
... LEE'S SUGGESTION TO JEFFERSON DAVIS , 1862- FERNANDO WOOD'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH MR . LINCOLN , 1862 - MR . STEPHENS AT FORTRESS MON- ROE , 1863 - HORACE GREELEY , NIAGARA FALLS CONFER- ENCE , 1864 - JACQUESS - GILMORE'S VISITS TO ...
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... Lee , invaded Maryland in 1862 , and after the drawn battle of Antietam , Septem- ber 17th , it retired through the Shenandoah Valley and the mountain gaps behind the Rappahannock . McClellan had failed to take Richmond , and although ...
... Lee , invaded Maryland in 1862 , and after the drawn battle of Antietam , Septem- ber 17th , it retired through the Shenandoah Valley and the mountain gaps behind the Rappahannock . McClellan had failed to take Richmond , and although ...
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... Lee to retreat across the Potomac , where he was permitted to leisurely withdraw , practically unmolested , southward . The critical student of the battle of Antietam will learn of much desperate fighting on both sides , with no clearly ...
... Lee to retreat across the Potomac , where he was permitted to leisurely withdraw , practically unmolested , southward . The critical student of the battle of Antietam will learn of much desperate fighting on both sides , with no clearly ...
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138th Pennsylvania 6th Maryland advance Appomattox arrived artillery assault attack battery battle battle of Opequon BREVET camp campaign Captain captured cavalry Cedar Creek charge Colonel command Confederate Army Congress Court-House Crook Davis dispatch Early Early's enemy enemy's engaged Ewell's corps fighting fire Fisher's Hill force Ford Fredericksburg front Front Royal Getty Gettysburg Gordon Grant guns Halleck Harper's Ferry House Ibid infantry intrenched James Keifer killed and wounded Lee's army letter Longstreet MAJOR-GENERAL March Martinsburg Meade miles Milroy morning moved movement night Nineteenth Corps officers Ohio OHIO VOLUNTEERS Opequon ordered peace Petersburg photograph taken 1865 pike position Potomac reached rear Records regiments retired retreat Richmond Ricketts right flank river road Second Brigade Shenandoah Shenandoah Valley Sheridan Sixth Corps soldiers soon staff Third Corps Third Division tion Torbert troops Union Army Valley Valley pike Virginia Warren WARREN KEIFER Washington Wheaton's Winchester
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Page 224 - 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. The officers to give their individual paroles not to take op arms against the Government of the United States until properly exchanged; and each company or regimental commander sign a like parole for the men...
Page 171 - States, or other peaceable means, to the end that, at the earliest practicable moment, peace may be restored on the basis of the Federal Union of the States.
Page 164 - To WHOM IT MAY CONCERN : Any proposition which embraces the restoration of peace, the integrity of the whole Union, and the abandonment of slavery, and which comes by and with an authority that can control the armies now at war against the United States, will be received and considered by the Executive Government of the United States, and will be met by liberal terms on other substantial and collateral points; and the bearer or bearers thereof shall have safe conduct both ways. ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Page 224 - This done, each officer and man will be allowed to return to his home, not to be disturbed by United States authority so long as they observe their paroles and the laws in force where they may reside.
Page 45 - The signs look better. The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea. Thanks to the great Northwest for it. Nor yet wholly to them. Three hundred miles up they met New England, Empire, Keystone, and Jersey hewing their way right and left. The sunny South, too, in more colours than one, also lent a hand.
Page 44 - You dislike the Emancipation Proclamation, and perhaps would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional. I think differently. I think the Constitution invests its commander-in-chief with the law of war in time of war.
Page 22 - If the head of Lee's army is at Martinsburg and the tail of it on the plank road between Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, the animal must be very slim somewhere. Could you not break him?
Page 179 - Lee's army, or on some minor and purely military matter. He instructs me to say that you are not to decide, discuss, or confer upon any political question. Such questions the President holds in his own hands, and will submit them to no military conferences or conventions.
Page 172 - In presenting the abandonment of armed resistance to the national authority on the part of the insurgents as the only indispensable condition to ending the war on the part of the Government, I retract nothing heretofore said as to slavery.
Page 45 - But the proclamation, as law, either is valid or is not valid. If it is not valid, it needs no retraction. If it is valid, it cannot be retracted, any more than the dead can be brought to life.