The Military and Naval History of the Rebellion in the United States. With Biographical Sketches of Deceased OfficersD. Appleton, 1865 - 843 páginas |
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... Creek . March to be rapid but not hurried . A how- itzer with canister and shrapnell to go , and a wagon with planks and materials to repair the New Market bridge . Duryea to have the two hundred rifles . He will pick the men to whom ...
... Creek . March to be rapid but not hurried . A how- itzer with canister and shrapnell to go , and a wagon with planks and materials to repair the New Market bridge . Duryea to have the two hundred rifles . He will pick the men to whom ...
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... creek called Bull Run . This tortuous stream runs from northwest to southeast , through the entire field of battle . At the extreme part on the north- west , is Sudley's Spring , where it is fordable ; three miles lower down is a ...
... creek called Bull Run . This tortuous stream runs from northwest to southeast , through the entire field of battle . At the extreme part on the north- west , is Sudley's Spring , where it is fordable ; three miles lower down is a ...
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... Creek for a distance of five or six miles , and in the ravines , and on the heights west of the creek ; and Gen. Lyon's plan of attack was to march his main column , which he divided into two , giving the command of one to Maj . Sturgis ...
... Creek for a distance of five or six miles , and in the ravines , and on the heights west of the creek ; and Gen. Lyon's plan of attack was to march his main column , which he divided into two , giving the command of one to Maj . Sturgis ...
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... Creek ferries , concentrating at Fayetteville . Floyd detecting the movement immediately fell back , barely in time to escape capture . His rear was attacked and pursued some twenty miles , causing con- siderable loss . He now retired ...
... Creek ferries , concentrating at Fayetteville . Floyd detecting the movement immediately fell back , barely in time to escape capture . His rear was attacked and pursued some twenty miles , causing con- siderable loss . He now retired ...
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... Creek , and pass to the left of Pikeville , where was the enemy's position - a distance of about forty miles - and turn or cut them off . On the 8th , at 5 A. M. , Gen. Nelson moved forward with three Ohio regiments , a battalion of ...
... Creek , and pass to the left of Pikeville , where was the enemy's position - a distance of about forty miles - and turn or cut them off . On the 8th , at 5 A. M. , Gen. Nelson moved forward with three Ohio regiments , a battalion of ...
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advance arms army arrived artillery attack Banks batteries battle boats bridge Brig.-Gen brigade Burnside camp Capt captured cavalry Centreville citizens command commenced Confederate army Confederate force Corinth corps Creek crossed D. H. Hill defence Department despatch destroyed division of Gen enemy enemy's Federal force Ferry fire flag flank force of Gen Fort Sumter Fortress Monroe Fredericksburg front Government Governor gunboats guns Halleck Harper's Ferry HEADQUARTERS hundred infantry Island Jackson junction Kentucky killed large number loss Maj.-Gen Manassas McClellan McDowell ment miles military Mississippi Missouri morning moved movement night North o'clock occupied officers Ohio passed Port Port Hudson position Potomac President prisoners railroad rear reënforcements regiments retreat Richmond rifle river road Rosecrans secession Secretary of War sent shot side skirmish soldiers South Carolina steamer surrender Tennessee thousand tion troops Union United vessels Vicksburg Virginia Warrenton Washington wounded
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Página 318 - Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days, from the day first above mentioned, order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people...
Página 12 - 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,
Página 318 - ... respectively, shall then be in rebellion against the United States; and the fact that any State, or the people thereof, shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States, by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Página 318 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free...
Página 27 - 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...
Página 319 - And I further declare and make known that such persons, of suitable condition, will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service. And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
Página 273 - That the executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the United States...
Página 273 - All officers or persons in the military or naval service of the United States are prohibited from employing any of the forces under their respective commands for the purpose of returning fugitives from service or labor, who may have escaped from any persons to whom such service or labor is claimed to be due, and any officer who shall be found guilty by a court-martial of violating this article shall be dismissed from the service. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted. That this act shall take effect...
Página 273 - ... arms against the United States in the present rebellion, nor in any way given aid and comfort thereto; and no person engaged in the military or naval service of the United States shall under any pretence whatever assume to decide on the validity of the claim of any person to the service or labor of any other person, or surrender up any such person to the claimant, on pain of being dismissed from the service.
Página 30 - We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners : the LORD fulfil all thy petitions.