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Adams April artillery attack authority battle BATTLE OF CHANCELLORSVILLE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG BATTLE OF SHILOH Beauregard blockade brigade Bull Run Cabinet campaign capture Carl Schurz Carolina Chancellorsville Charleston Chase Civil command Confederate Congress corps cotton Davis defeat despatch Donelson enemy England Farragut Federal fight fire flag Fort Donelson Fort Monroe Fort Sumter Frémont gave Gettysburg governor Grant gunboats Halleck Hooker Ibid J. H. Wilson Jackson Jefferson Davis Johnston July Lee's Lincoln Longstreet March Mason and Slidell McClellan McDowell Meade ment Merrimac miles military Navy North Northern officers opinion Porter Potomac President President's private letters proclamation railroad reënforcements regiments Regt replied retreat Richmond river Russell Schurz secession Secretary senators sent sentiment Seward Sherman slavery slaves Slidell soldiers South Southern Confederacy Stanton Sumter surrender tion Union Army Union troops United Vicksburg victory Virginia Washington Welles's Diary wrote
Popular passages
Page 6 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts ; but, beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.
Page 172 - ... 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...
Page 409 - No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize, or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.
Page 151 - while I approve the measure, I suggest, sir, that you postpone its issue until you can give it to the country supported by military success, instead of issuing it, as would be the case now, upon the greatest disasters of the war.
Page 16 - 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...
Page 195 - 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.
Page 3 - But this momentous question, like a fire-bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union.
Page 89 - Yours of this date, proposing armistice and appointment of commissioners to settle terms of capitulation, is just received. No terms except unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
Page 152 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 434 - ... is won. The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.