Articles of War: Winners, Losers, and Some who Were Both in the Civil WarStackpole Books, 2001 - 244 pages The American Civil War is filled with fascinating characters. This collection of biographical essays on the "winners and losers" of the Civil War covers some of the most intriguing: Ulysses S. Grant, Sam Houston, Nathan Bedford Forrest, and William Clarke Quantrill, to name just a few. The articles represent a broad cross-section of the scholarship of noted author Albert Castel; most were written over a fifty-year period for publication in national "popular history" magazines such as American Heritage, Civil War History, and Civil War Times Illustrated. |
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... ended without a decision . Several days later Floyd finally resigned . Eventually , as commander of Confederate forces at Fort Donelson , he would render great service to the Union cause . On December 28 the South Carolina commissioners ...
... ended without a decision . Several days later Floyd finally resigned . Eventually , as commander of Confederate forces at Fort Donelson , he would render great service to the Union cause . On December 28 the South Carolina commissioners ...
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... ended . The commissioners , who meanwhile had learned of Lincoln's note to Governor Pickens , were incensed by what they deemed to be Seward's duplicity . On April 9 they addressed to him a letter which asserted that Lin- coln's ...
... ended . The commissioners , who meanwhile had learned of Lincoln's note to Governor Pickens , were incensed by what they deemed to be Seward's duplicity . On April 9 they addressed to him a letter which asserted that Lin- coln's ...
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Page 14 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 21 - Upon your closing propositions, that " whatever policy we adopt, there must be an energetic prosecution of it, " For this purpose it must be somebody's business to pursue and direct it incessantly, " Either the President must do it himself, and be all the while active in it, or "Devolve it on some member of his Cabinet. Once adopted, debates on it must end, and all agree and abide...
Page 27 - We do not desire needlessly to bombard Fort Sumter if Major Anderson will state the time at which, as indicated by him, he will evacuate, and agree that, in the meantime, he will not use his guns against us, unless ours should be employed against Fort Sumter. You are thus to avoid the effusion of blood.
Page 222 - I attach more importance to these deep incisions into the enemy's country, because this war differs from European wars in this particular : we are not only fighting hostile armies, but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war, as well as their organized armies.
Page 26 - I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication demanding the evacuation of this fort, and to say, in reply thereto, that it is a demand with which I regret that my sense of honor, and of my obligations to my Government, prevent my compliance.
Page 43 - I was now in the enemy's country, with a vast river and the stronghold of Vicksburg between me and my base of supplies. But I was on dry ground on the same side of the river with the enemy.
Page 15 - ... Moultrie) as well as in the approach or outer bay. To raise, organize, and discipline such an army (not to speak of necessary legislation by Congress, not now in session) would require from six to eight months. As a practical military question, the time for succoring Fort Sumter with any means at hand had passed away nearly a month ago. Since then, a surrender under assault or from starvation has been merely a question of time.
Page 27 - If you will state the time at which you will evacuate Fort Sumter, and agree that in the mean time you will not use your guns against us, unless ours shall be employed against Fort Sumter, we will abstain from opening fire upon you.
Page 90 - I find myself in a new and strange position here, President, Cabinet, General Scott and all deferring to me. By some strange operation of magic I seem to have become the power of the land.
Page 26 - I ought to have been informed that this expedition was to come. Colonel Lamon's remark convinced me that the idea, merely hinted at to me by Captain Fox, would not be carried out. We shall strive to do our duty, though I frankly say that my heart is not in the war which I see is to be thus commenced.