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Adams April artillery attack authority battle BATTLE OF CHANCELLORSVILLE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG Beauregard blockade brigade Bull Run Cabinet campaign capture Chancellorsville Charleston Chase Chattanooga Civil command Confederate confidence Congress corps cotton Davis defeat despatch division Donelson enemy England Farragut Federal fight fire force Fort Monroe Fort Sumter Frémont gave Gettysburg governor Grant Halleck Hist Hooker J. H. Wilson Jackson Jefferson Davis Johnston July Lee's Lincoln Longstreet Mason and Slidell McClellan Meade ment Merrimac miles military movement Navy North Northern officers opinion Pickett's Potomac President proclamation railroad received reënforcements retreat Richmond river road Russell Schurz Secretary Secretary of War senators sent sentiment Seward Sherman slavery slaves soldiers South South Carolina Southern Confederacy Stanton success Sumter supplies surrender T. L. Livermore telegraphed Tennessee Thomas tion Union Army United Vicksburg VICKSBURG CAMPAIGN victory Virginia Washington Welles's Diary wrote
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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 174 - ... 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 413 - 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 434 - Then there is nothing left me but to go and see General Grant, and I would rather die a thousand deaths.
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 197 - 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 91 - 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 154 - 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 438 - ... the prize we sought 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.
Page 150 - This proposal makes common cause for a common object, casting no reproaches upon any. It acts not the Pharisee. The change it contemplates would come gently as the dews of Heaven, not rending or wrecking anything. Will you not embrace it ? So much good has not been done by one effort in all past time, as in the Providence of God it is now your high privilege to do. May the vast future not have to lament that you have neglected it.