History of the American War, Količina 1R. Bentley, 1865 |
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Stran 52
... engaged in the struggle for wealth , that they have little leisure for out - of - door amusements . In the South , on the contrary , the planter has much time on his hands ; he resides usually apart from towns or cities , and is thrown ...
... engaged in the struggle for wealth , that they have little leisure for out - of - door amusements . In the South , on the contrary , the planter has much time on his hands ; he resides usually apart from towns or cities , and is thrown ...
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... engaged in , as well as for the high po- sition which many of those , even from the junior grades of the American army , were about to be called on to fill , their education and training were especially suit- able . Well , on either ...
... engaged in , as well as for the high po- sition which many of those , even from the junior grades of the American army , were about to be called on to fill , their education and training were especially suit- able . Well , on either ...
Stran 60
... engaged in it were uninfluenced by the highest motives , but it was a war of the strong against the weak , and soon assumed the characteristics of a war of invasion . There was no question in the Northern population of defending their ...
... engaged in it were uninfluenced by the highest motives , but it was a war of the strong against the weak , and soon assumed the characteristics of a war of invasion . There was no question in the Northern population of defending their ...
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... engaged in transmitting intelligence through the Confederate States were re- quired to take an oath to support and maintain the constitution of the Confederate States of America , and not knowingly , directly or indirectly , to transmit ...
... engaged in transmitting intelligence through the Confederate States were re- quired to take an oath to support and maintain the constitution of the Confederate States of America , and not knowingly , directly or indirectly , to transmit ...
Stran 81
... the telegraph station perceived a Confederate flag still flying from an hotel called the Marshall House . ' His regiment was VOL . I. G at the time engaged in displacing the rails near the YEAR . FROM MAY TO THE BATTLE OF RICH MOUNTAIN .
... the telegraph station perceived a Confederate flag still flying from an hotel called the Marshall House . ' His regiment was VOL . I. G at the time engaged in displacing the rails near the YEAR . FROM MAY TO THE BATTLE OF RICH MOUNTAIN .
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History of the American War, Vol. 1: First Year of the War (1861-62 ... Henry Charles Fletcher Predogled ni na voljo - 2017 |
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Stran 11 - I think I would not hold one in slavery at any rate, yet the point is not clear enough for me to denounce people upon. What next? Free them, and make them politically and socially our equals.
Stran 158 - Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under enemy's flag; 4. Blockades, in order to be binding, must be effective ; that is to say, maintained by a force sufficient really to prevent access to the coast of the enemy.
Stran 20 - The long-continued and intemperate interference of the Northern people with the question of slavery in the Southern States has at length produced its natural effects.
Stran 324 - Move the remainder of the force down the Potomac, choosing a new base at Fortress Monroe, or anywhere between here and there; or, at all events, move such remainder of the army at once in pursuit of the enemy by some route.
Stran 166 - An act for establishing rules and articles for the government of the armies of the United States...
Stran 33 - Would the marching of an army into South Carolina without the consent of her people, and with hostile intent toward them, be "invasion"? I certainly think it would ; and it would be " coercion " also if the South Carolinians were forced to submit. But if the United States should merely hold and retake its own forts and other property, and collect the duties on foreign importations, or even withhold the mails from places where they were habitually violated, would any or all of these things be "invasion
Stran 97 - It is now recommended that you give the legal means for making this contest a short and decisive one: that you place at the control of the government for the work at least four hundred thousand men and $400,000,000. That number of men...
Stran 316 - Ordered: That no change of the base of operations of the Army of the Potomac shall be made without leaving in and about Washington such a force as in the opinion of the general-in-chief and the commanders of all the army corps shall leave said city entirely secure.
Stran 21 - Shall we hold it as a province and govern it by despotic power? In the nature of things, we could not, by physical force, control the will Of the people and compel them to elect senators and representatives to Congress, and to perform all the other duties depending upon their own volition and required from the free citizens of a free State as a constituent member of the confederacy.
Stran 30 - But Congress may, by law, grant to the principal officer in each of the Executive Departments a seat upon the floor of either House, with the privilege of discussing any measures appertaining to his department.