Vermont in the Great RebellionTracy, Chase, 1869 - 288 pages |
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... enemy coming upon him in over- whelming numbers . In a trice the torch was applied , and the buildings were all in a blaze , and Lieutenant Jones , with his forty - three men , retreated across the bridge into Maryland , and , after ...
... enemy coming upon him in over- whelming numbers . In a trice the torch was applied , and the buildings were all in a blaze , and Lieutenant Jones , with his forty - three men , retreated across the bridge into Maryland , and , after ...
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... enemy coming upon him in over- whelming numbers . In a trice the torch was applied , and the buildings were all in a blaze , and Lieutenant Jones , with his forty - three men , retreated across the bridge into Maryland , and , after ...
... enemy coming upon him in over- whelming numbers . In a trice the torch was applied , and the buildings were all in a blaze , and Lieutenant Jones , with his forty - three men , retreated across the bridge into Maryland , and , after ...
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... enemy , as I then supposed them to be , then disappeared , and I went forward to a house near by , where I found a num- ber of wounded men , who stated that they belonged to Colonel Townshend's New York Regiment . At this time Colonel ...
... enemy , as I then supposed them to be , then disappeared , and I went forward to a house near by , where I found a num- ber of wounded men , who stated that they belonged to Colonel Townshend's New York Regiment . At this time Colonel ...
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... enemy's battery . No other direction as to location was given , and no guide was sent with me . I moved through the ... enemy's fire appeared to be concentrated upon us . While making the attack , I was joined by Colonel Benedix with a ...
... enemy's battery . No other direction as to location was given , and no guide was sent with me . I moved through the ... enemy's fire appeared to be concentrated upon us . While making the attack , I was joined by Colonel Benedix with a ...
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... enemy . The men under his command are justly entitled to great credit . They fought bravely , brought off all their guns , and also the body of Lieutenant Greble . From information received by me , I particularly mention Corporal Pee ...
... enemy . The men under his command are justly entitled to great credit . They fought bravely , brought off all their guns , and also the body of Lieutenant Greble . From information received by me , I particularly mention Corporal Pee ...
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Page 20 - I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 20 - 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 18 - We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained; "That the Ordinance adopted by us in Convention, on the twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America...
Page 29 - ... and I hereby command the persons composing the combinations aforesaid to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes within twenty days from this date. " Deeming that the present condition of public affairs presents an extraordinary occasion, I do hereby, in virtue of the power in me vested by the Constitution, convene both Houses of Congress.
Page 18 - Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the "United States of America,
Page 29 - The details for this object will be immediately communicated to the State authorities through the War Department. I appeal to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate, and aid this effort to maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence of our. National Union and the perpetuity of popular government and to redress wrongs already long enough endured.
Page 23 - Sumter by noon on the 15th instant, should I not receive, prior to that time, controlling instructions from my Government, or additional supplies ; and that I will not, in the mean time, open my fire upon your forces, unless compelled to do so by some hostile act against this fort or the flag of my Government, by the forces under your command, or by some portion of them, or by the perpetration of some act showing a hostile...
Page 15 - I am impliedly if not expressly pledged to a belief in the right and duty of Congress to prohibit slavery in all the United States Territories. Q. 7. 'I desire him to answer whether he is opposed to the acquisition of any new territory unless slavery is first prohibited therein.
Page 29 - Texas, by combinations, too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Page 29 - I deem it proper to say that the first service assigned to the forces hereby called forth, will probably be to repossess the forts, places, and property which have been seized from the Union ; and in every event the utmost care will be observed, consistently with the objects aforesaid, to avoid any devastation, any destruction of, or interference with, property, or any disturbance of peaceful citizens of any part of the country...