The Rebellion Record: June '63-Nov. '63Frank Moore Putnam, 1864 - United States |
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... o'clock the messengers returned . This afternoon General Grant met General Pem- —A PICKED force of infantry , artillery , and cavalry , under General Foster in person , left Newbern , N. C. , on an expedition inland . - THE- ( Docs . 25 ...
... o'clock the messengers returned . This afternoon General Grant met General Pem- —A PICKED force of infantry , artillery , and cavalry , under General Foster in person , left Newbern , N. C. , on an expedition inland . - THE- ( Docs . 25 ...
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... o'clock , a regi- ment of Texas Rangers , the Second Texas caval- ry , two hundred and fifty strong , under command of Colonel George Madison , charged on the Union picket stationed about one mile south of the town of Vidalia , La ...
... o'clock , a regi- ment of Texas Rangers , the Second Texas caval- ry , two hundred and fifty strong , under command of Colonel George Madison , charged on the Union picket stationed about one mile south of the town of Vidalia , La ...
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... o'clock . During the afternoon the pickets of the enemy lounged on the opposite At eight P.M. General Granger ordered a bri- bank , apparently filled with astonishment at the gade of infantry and a battery of artillery from preparations ...
... o'clock . During the afternoon the pickets of the enemy lounged on the opposite At eight P.M. General Granger ordered a bri- bank , apparently filled with astonishment at the gade of infantry and a battery of artillery from preparations ...
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... o'clock in the morning our pickets were driven in , and fifteen minutes later the ene- my appeared and formed in line of battle on our left front . They formed for bayonet - charge three lines deep with a reserve . Six regiments were ...
... o'clock in the morning our pickets were driven in , and fifteen minutes later the ene- my appeared and formed in line of battle on our left front . They formed for bayonet - charge three lines deep with a reserve . Six regiments were ...
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... o'clock , saying that he had crossed with scarce any opposition , and that he was driving the ene- my before him , but his guns had not yet been heard . Matters thus remained in statu quo until twelve o'clock , nothing being done save ...
... o'clock , saying that he had crossed with scarce any opposition , and that he was driving the ene- my before him , but his guns had not yet been heard . Matters thus remained in statu quo until twelve o'clock , nothing being done save ...
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advance arms army corps arrived artillery assault attack battery boats brave bridge brigade Brigadier-General camp Captain captured cavalry Cemetery Hill charge Chattanooga citizens Colonel column command commenced confederate Creek crossed despatch destroyed division duty eight enemy enemy's engaged eral expedition fall back fell field fight fire five flank force Fort Wagner forward four front gallant Gettysburgh gunboat guns headquarters hill horses hundred infantry July June killed and wounded Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel line of battle loss Major Major-General mand McClernand ment Middleburgh miles Milliken's Bend morning Morris Island moved New-York night o'clock P.M. officers Ohio passed Pennsylvania pickets Port Hudson position Potomac prisoners railroad reached rear regiment repulsed retreat ridge river road Rossville sent shell shot side skirmishers soldiers soon steamer surrender thousand tion took town troops Union Vallandigham Valley Vicksburgh Virginia volunteers wagons Weehawken woods
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Page 29 - When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below ; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and the like could succeed. When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join General Banks, and when you turned northward, east of the...
Page 1 - In testimony, whereof I, Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United States of America, have caused these Letters to be made Patent, and the Seal of the General Land Office to be hereunto affixed.
Page 294 - Nor am 1 able to appreciate the danger apprehended by the meeting that the American people will, by means of military arrests during the rebellion, lose the right of public discussion, the liberty of speech and the press, the law of evidence, trial by jury, and habeas corpus, throughout the indefinite peaceful future which I trust lies before them, any more than I am able to believe that a man could contract so strong an appetite for emetics during temporary illness, as to persist in feeding upon...
Page 7 - Whereas, for the reasons thus recited, it was enacted by the said statute that all able-bodied male citizens of the United States, and persons of foreign birth who shall have declared on oath their intention to become citizens...
Page 143 - Men who have shown so much endurance and courage as those now in Vicksburg, will always challenge the respect of an adversary, and I can assure you, will be treated with all the respect due them as prisoners of. war. I do not favor the proposition of appointing commissioners to arrange terms of capitulation, because I have no other terms than those indicated above.
Page 364 - I have to say it gave me pain when I learned that Mr. Vallandigham had been arrested; that is, I was pained that there should have seemed to be a necessity for arresting him, and that it will afford me great pleasure to discharge him so soon as I can, by any means, believe the public safety will not suffer by it.
Page 368 - ... 1. That there is now a rebellion in the United States, the object and tendency of which is to destroy the National Union; and that, in your opinion, an army and navy are constitutional means for suppressing that rebellion. 2. That no one of you will do...
Page 298 - ... rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right — a right which, we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people that can may revolutionize, and make their own of so much of their territory as they inhabit.
Page 292 - From this material, under cover of 'liberty of speech,' 'liberty of the press,' and 'habeas corpus', they hoped to keep on foot amongst us a most efficient corps of spies, informers, suppliers, and aiders and abettors of their cause in a thousand ways. They knew that in times...
Page 292 - that these safeguards of the rights of the citizen against the pretensions of arbitrary power were intended more especially for his protection in times of civil commotion.