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... Vermont troops , during the four years that they were engaged in the War of the Rebellion . Many of their most ... military glory comes to the few . The author , in preparing this work , has aimed to convey an idea of the camp , garrison ...
... Vermont troops , during the four years that they were engaged in the War of the Rebellion . Many of their most ... military glory comes to the few . The author , in preparing this work , has aimed to convey an idea of the camp , garrison ...
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Otis Frederick Reed Waite. INDEX . PAGE THE REBELLION , ACTION OF VERMONT , VERMONT TROOPS ,. VERMONT BRIGADE , 9 56 94 · · 116 SECOND VERMONT BRIGADE , REGIMENTS . First , . - Second , 216 • 58 , 106 · · 61 , 117 Third , 62 , 118 Fourth ...
Otis Frederick Reed Waite. INDEX . PAGE THE REBELLION , ACTION OF VERMONT , VERMONT TROOPS ,. VERMONT BRIGADE , 9 56 94 · · 116 SECOND VERMONT BRIGADE , REGIMENTS . First , . - Second , 216 • 58 , 106 · · 61 , 117 Third , 62 , 118 Fourth ...
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... troops from the adjacent Slave States of Maryland and Virginia were to seize upon Washing- ton and all its treasures , and make it the capital of the new Confederacy . To this end the United States . army — but a few thousands in number ...
... troops from the adjacent Slave States of Maryland and Virginia were to seize upon Washing- ton and all its treasures , and make it the capital of the new Confederacy . To this end the United States . army — but a few thousands in number ...
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... of the slave power , had gathered about three hundred troops in and about the capital for its protection . On the retirement of the traitor Floyd from the War Department , Hon . Joseph Holt , of Kentucky GREAT REBELLION . 27 27.
... of the slave power , had gathered about three hundred troops in and about the capital for its protection . On the retirement of the traitor Floyd from the War Department , Hon . Joseph Holt , of Kentucky GREAT REBELLION . 27 27.
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... peace to the President elect the authority that , under the Constitution , belongs to him . To those , if such there be , who desire the destruction of the re- public , the presence of these troops is necessarily of- GREAT REBELLION . 29.
... peace to the President elect the authority that , under the Constitution , belongs to him . To those , if such there be , who desire the destruction of the re- public , the presence of these troops is necessarily of- GREAT REBELLION . 29.
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Page 43 - 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.
Page 32 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 18 - We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained; "That the Ordinance adopted by us in Convention, on the twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America...
Page 44 - Deeming that the present condition of public affairs presents an extraordinary occasion, I do hereby, in virtue of the power in me vested by the Constitution, convene both Houses of Congress.
Page 18 - Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the "United States of America,
Page 43 - The details for this object will be immediately communicated to the State authorities through the War Department. I appeal to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate, and aid this effort to maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence of our National Union and the perpetuity of popular government and to redress wrongs already long enough endured.
Page 37 - Sumter by noon on the 15th instant, should I not receive, prior to that time, controlling instructions from my Government, or additional supplies ; and that I will not, in the mean time, open my fire upon your forces, unless compelled to do so by some hostile act against this fort or the flag of my Government, by the forces under your command, or by some portion of them, or by the perpetration of some act showing a hostile...
Page 32 - We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 15 - I am impliedly if not expressly pledged to a belief in the right and duty of Congress to prohibit slavery in all the United States Territories. Q. 7. 'I desire him to answer whether he is opposed to the acquisition of any new territory unless slavery is first prohibited therein.
Page 43 - 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 ; and in every event the utmost care will be observed, consistently with the objects aforesaid, to avoid any devastation, any destruction of, or interference with, property, or any disturbance of peaceful citizens of any part of the country...