The Story of the Civil War: To the opening of the campaigns of 1862G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1895 |
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Zadetki 1–5 od 33
Stran iii
... task attempted in the following work is in certain respects a novel one . It is to write of the subjects treated from the stand - point of each of the contending parties . In my judgment the war should not be so depicted as to imply ...
... task attempted in the following work is in certain respects a novel one . It is to write of the subjects treated from the stand - point of each of the contending parties . In my judgment the war should not be so depicted as to imply ...
Stran xi
... task of the historian . The only comfortable way to do is to paste the numbers on the backs of the first thirty - five volumes ; the government - printers have printed the “ serial numbers " on the backs of all the rest . BARNARD'S ...
... task of the historian . The only comfortable way to do is to paste the numbers on the backs of the first thirty - five volumes ; the government - printers have printed the “ serial numbers " on the backs of all the rest . BARNARD'S ...
Stran 5
... task of preserving intact the great republic of the world , inspired the people of the North with a determination to main- tain the integrity of the nation , at any cost . People spoke in the language of the time of " preserving the ...
... task of preserving intact the great republic of the world , inspired the people of the North with a determination to main- tain the integrity of the nation , at any cost . People spoke in the language of the time of " preserving the ...
Stran 6
... task before her was that of suppressing an ordi- nary rebellion , -one , too , for which it was impossible for the South to allege any sufficient justification . The task before the North was a very different one from this , and one ...
... task before her was that of suppressing an ordi- nary rebellion , -one , too , for which it was impossible for the South to allege any sufficient justification . The task before the North was a very different one from this , and one ...
Stran 15
... task of overrunning the South , favored a speedy recognition of the seceding States . Others again favored peace , from an inability to see how " a sovereign State " could be coerced into remaining in or returning into the Union . There ...
... task of overrunning the South , favored a speedy recognition of the seceding States . Others again favored peace , from an inability to see how " a sovereign State " could be coerced into remaining in or returning into the Union . There ...
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The Story of the Civil War: To the opening of the campaigns of 1862 John Codman Ropes Prikaz kratkega opisa - 1933 |
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advance arms attack attempt authorities batteries battle Beauregard brigade Buchanan Buell Bull Run campaign capture Castle Pinckney Centreville certainly Charleston Harbor civil command Confederacy Confederate army Cumberland Davis defence division divisions of Hunter doubt duty East Tennessee enemy enemy's evacuate existed expected fact Federal army fight force Fort Monroe Fort Moultrie Fort Sumter forts garrison General-in-chief Government Halleck Hayne Heintzelman hostile importance Johnston Kentucky letter Lincoln Major Anderson Manassas Junction March matter McClellan McDowell McDowell's ment Merrimac miles military Mississippi Monroe Moultrie movement Nashville nation naval North Northern occupied officers operations opinion parties political position possession Potomac President question railroad regiments reinforcements Richmond River roads seceding secession Secretary Secretary of War sent Shenandoah Valley Sherman situation soldiers South Carolina Southern success Sumter superior supplies task tion troops Union United Urbana Virginia Warrenton Warrenton turnpike Washington West
Priljubljeni odlomki
Stran 19 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government...
Stran 71 - I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken; and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States.
Stran 73 - The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed, in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation® in 1778.
Stran 244 - That the force to be left to cover Washington shall be such as to give an entire feeling of security for its safety from menace.
Stran 36 - ... of them will be regarded as an act of hostility, and you may then put your command into either of them which you may deem most proper to increase its power of resistance.
Stran 228 - West Point, the key of that region, and thence but two marches to Richmond. A rapid movement from Urbana would probably cut off Magruder in the Peninsula, and enable us to occupy Richmond, before it could be strongly re-enforced.
Stran 36 - You are carefully to avoid every act which would needlessly tend to provoke aggression, and for that reason you are not, without necessity, to take up any position which could be construed into the assumption of a hostile attitude...
Stran 232 - That any movement, as aforesaid, en route for a new base of operations, which may be ordered by the general-in-chief, and which may be intended to move upon the Chesapeake Bay, shall begin to move upon the bay as early as the 18th of March, instant, and the general-in-chief shall be responsible that it so moves as early as that day.
Stran 175 - I propose, with the force which I have requested, not only to drive the enemy out of Virginia and occupy Richmond, but to occupy Charleston, Savannah, Montgomery, Pensacola, Mobile and New Orleans; in other words, to move into the heart of the enemy's country and crush the rebellion in its very heart.
Stran 89 - 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...