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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 567 567 Browse Search
The Atlanta (Georgia) Campaign: May 1 - September 8, 1864., Part I: General Report. (ed. Maj. George B. Davis, Mr. Leslie J. Perry, Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley) 24 24 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 19 19 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Condensed history of regiments. 15 15 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 13 13 Browse Search
Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865 13 13 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: may 21, 1861., [Electronic resource] 11 11 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 10 10 Browse Search
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 10 10 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 8 8 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4. You can also browse the collection for May 18th or search for May 18th in all documents.

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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 45: an antislavery policy.—the Trent case.—Theories of reconstruction.—confiscation.—the session of 1861-1862. (search)
as well as the objections to the pending treaty. Works, vol. VI. pp. 474-486. The ratification passed without dissent; and Sumner hastened to the state department to inform the secretary of the vote. Seward leaped from his lounge, where he had been sleeping, and exclaimed: Good God! the Democrats have disappeared! This is the greatest act of the Administration. Lord Lyons came in the evening to Sumner's lodgings overflowing with gratitude and joy. The Duchess of Argyll by letter, May 18. congratulated Sumner on the result Later in the session Sumner secured legislation giving effect to the treaty. At the next session he introduced, March 3, 1863, a joint resolution further to give effect to the treaty, which was carried. He recurred briefly to the treaty in debate, March 9, 1868. The honest co-operation of the two great nations sealed the fate of the slave-trade. A few years later the mixed courts, instituted for its suppression, being without business, were discontin
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 48: Seward.—emancipation.—peace with France.—letters of marque and reprisal.—foreign mediation.—action on certain military appointments.—personal relations with foreigners at Washington.—letters to Bright, Cobden, and the Duchess of Argyll.—English opinion on the Civil War.—Earl Russell and Gladstone.—foreign relations.—1862-1863. (search)
cksburg is now 180,000 men,—68,000 horses and mules, for which there is daily forage, including 16,000 cavalry and 6,000 wagons. Where in history was such a force, thus appointed, gathered together? Stanton says it ought to be able to go on its belly to Richmond. . . . Is it not wretched in McDougall to bring forward those resolutions about France and Mexico? He has entreated me to let them be taken up and discussed. I shall stop the discussion if I can, and so told him. To John Jay, May 18:— The mist has not yet cleared away from our recent battlefield, At Chancellorsville. and there are events and men still obscured by it. I hope for the best. If the Seventh regiment would welcome the African regiment The Fifty-fourth Massachusetts, under Colonel Shaw, was about to pass through New York on its way to the South. it would be an epoch as good as a victory, and the sure herald of many victories. If that regiment could do this service it would contribute more to the wa
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 56: San Domingo again.—the senator's first speech.—return of the angina pectoris.—Fish's insult in the Motley Papers.— the senator's removal from the foreign relations committee.—pretexts for the remioval.—second speech against the San Domingo scheme.—the treaty of Washington.—Sumner and Wilson against Butler for governor.—1870-1871. (search)
sion of the Ku-Klux clans. April 13. 1871 (Works, vol. XIV. pp. 277-282). The New York Evening Post, April 19, 1871, took exception to the centralizing drift of this speech. He renewed also the effort to bring forward his civil rights bill. March 9 and 17, 1871. Congressional Globe, pp. 21,144. His contention against the right of the Senate to hold in confinement recusant witnesses after final adjournment called out a grateful recognition from Whitelaw Reid and other journalists. May 18 and 27 (Works, vol. XIV. pp. 284-305). In this case Messrs. White and Ramsdell, having obtained and published a copy of the Treaty of Washington before its promulgation, refused to disclose by what means it was obtained. Other subjects to which the senator rave attention at this session were a bill for the relief of N. P. Trist, negotiator of the Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo, which he succeeded in carrying, Feb. 3, 14 (Congressional Globe, pp. 923, 1212, 1216. 1217), and March 13 and April