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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 14 14 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 4 4 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: June 25, 1861., [Electronic resource] 4 4 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: June 26, 1861., [Electronic resource] 3 3 Browse Search
A Roster of General Officers , Heads of Departments, Senators, Representatives , Military Organizations, &c., &c., in Confederate Service during the War between the States. (ed. Charles C. Jones, Jr. Late Lieut. Colonel of Artillery, C. S. A.) 2 2 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 2 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 2 2 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 1 1 Browse Search
Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley) 1 1 Browse Search
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Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Chapter 5: invasion of Virginia. (search)
g evident that one or both of the points occupied by their armies would be the scene of the earliest conflicts. His services were great and indispensable, but it can be readily seen that after supplying the threatened points with troops, and after providing commanding officers for the different armies when the battles of the war began, there would be no place for him in the field, but that the active operations there would be intrusted to others at first. To Mrs. Lee, from Richmond, June 24, 1861, he wrote: My movements are very uncertain, and I wish to take the field as soon as certain arrangements can be made. I may go at any moment to any point where it may be necessary. Custis is engaged on the works around this city, and many of our old friends are dropping in. E. P. Alexander is here. Jimmy Hill, Alston, Jenifer, etc., and I hear that my old colonel, A. S. Johnston, is crossing the plains from California. Preparations for the advance of the Federal army of the Potomac
Judith White McGuire, Diary of a southern refugee during the war, by a lady of Virginia, 1861. (search)
insburg and Shepherdstown in large force. General Johnston immediately drew up his army at a place called Carter's, on the Charlestown road, about four miles beyond Winchester. Messrs. B. and R. M. called this morning, and report that the location of the Federals is very uncertain; it is supposed that they have retreated from Martinsburg. Oh, that our Almighty Father, who rules all things, would interpose and give us peace, even now when all seem ready for war! He alone can do it. June 24, 1861. We have been in Winchester for the last two days, at Dr. S's. General Johnston's army encamped at The Lick. Some Southern regiments encamped near Winchester. The army at Manassas said to be strongly reinforced. Measles prevailing there, and near Winchester, among the troops. There has been a slight skirmish in Hampshire, on New Creek, and another at Vienna, in Fairfax County. We repulsed the enemy at both places. Captain Kemper, of Alexandria, led our men in the latter fight, a
Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), No Question before the House. (search)
rom a sore subject assumes in our eyes an unpleasantly craven aspect, and argues a very un-English faith in hand-to-mouth expedients. But while we feel thus, we feel, too, that if the American Republic cannot maintain itself without the encouragement, and we may say the patronage of foreign nations, the sooner it falls into final and hopeless and undistinguished ruin, the better. God is said to help those who help themselves; and most nations are respected in proportion to their ability to sustain themselves without external leagues and amities. If we can fight this battle at all, we can fight it alone. Subsidies, arms, armies; the offerings of foreign States, we have not asked for, and have neither wish nor right to ask for; but that moral countenance, the best gift that one great nation can bestow upon another, we have a right to expect from England; nor do we think it will be refused us by that portion of the nation the good will of which is best worth having. June 24, 1861.
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I., Xxiii. peace efforts at the North. (search)
n Congress; so had Abraham Lincoln, in one of his debates with Senator Douglas. But the right of a people to modify their institutions is one thing, and the right of a small fraction or segment of a people to break up and destroy a Nation, is quite another. The former is Reform; the latter is Revolution. Hon. Reverdy Johnson, who lived in the same house with John C. Calhoun from 1845 to 1849, and enjoyed a very close intimacy with him, in a letter to Edward Everett, dated Baltimore, June 24, 1861, says: He [Calhoun] did me the honor to give me much of his confidence, and frequently his Nullification doctrine was the subject of conversation. Time and time again have I heard him, and with ever-increased surprise at his wonderful acuteness, defend it on constitutional grounds, and distinguish it, in that respect, from the doctrine of Secession. This last he never, with me, placed on any other ground than that of revolution. This, he said, was to destroy the Government; and no
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, chapter 10 (search)
esent, also, at Williamsburg; Golding's Farm; White Oak Swamp; Malvern Hill; Crampton's Gap; Salem Heights ; Gettysburg ; Rappahannock Station; Fort Stevens; Fisher's Hill; Sailor's Creek. notes.--Organized at Burlington, leaving the State June 24, 1861. The Second rendered important service on many battle fields, though with comparatively small casualty lists, until May 3, 1863, when it was hotly engaged at the storming of Marye's Heights, and in the covering of the retreat on the next dayher's Run, Va. 3 Mine Run, Va. 6     Present, also, at Yorktown; Fair Oaks; Savage Station; Bristoe Station (1862); Chantilly; Fredericksburg; Totopotomoy; Farmville; Sailor's Creek; Appomattox. notes.--The Eleventh left the State June 24, 1861, and in less than a month was engaged at First Bull Run; its loss, as then officially reported, was 8 killed, 40 wounded, and 40 missing. In the campaigns of 1862, it served in Grover's (1st) Brigade, Hooker's (2d) Division, Third Corps. At
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 154 (search)
Doc. 137.-letter from Jefferson Davis to John R. Chambless. Richmond, June 24, 1861. Hon. John R. Chambless, Chairman of the Harper's Ferry Committee, &c.--Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication, accompanied by a resolution of inquiry, adopted by the Committee of the Convention of the State of Virginia, whether, prior to the 24th day of April, any of the Confederate States had transferred to the Confederate Government the public property captured by them from the late United States, and upon what terms; also whether any such transfers have been made since the said date, and upon what terms --to all of which I have to reply that, on the 12th of February, 1861, the Congress of the Confederate States of America assumed charge of the questions pending between the several States of the Confederacy and the Government of the United States, relating to the occupation of forts, arsenals, dock-yards, and other public establishments, and directed that a
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 192 (search)
The battles of Booneville and Kansas city.--Mr. T. S. Davis, who reached Richmond, Va., on Monday afternoon, direct from St. Louis, furnishes the subjoined statement. It confirms us in the belief that the Black Republican controllers of the Western telegraph have wilfully misrepresented the facts:-- Richmond, Va., June 24, 1861. I left St. Louis on Wednesday evening last, the 19th inst. We had received authentic news from the battle fought at Booneville on the morning of the 17th inst. Gen. Lyon, in command of 5,000 Federal troops, left St. Louis on the 15th instant for Jefferson City; arrived on the 16th; took possession quietly without any resistance, where he left 2,000 of his troops, under command of Col. Boernstein, and he (Gen. Lyon) continued on to Booneville, 40 or 50 miles above Jefferson City. When arriving near Booneville, Gen. Price, in command of the 1,500 State troops at that place, made a partial retreat, taking 1,000 of them, with which he thus succeeded
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 8 (search)
se from your dreaming! Awake, and to arms! for the foe draweth nigh; Must ye wait till our land with their legions are teeming, Ere ye rise in your might to battle or die? Oh, list to the wail from Missouri's heart coming, As trampled and bleeding she shrinks from the foe; Oh, such is our fate if thus ye lie sleeping; Then wake from your slumbers, and shield us from woe. The spirits of those who in battle have fallen, Are weeping in shame at your cowardly fear; The watchword of fiends hath already been given To crush and destroy all your loved ones so dear. Has the day gone fore'er, when 'twere nobler to be A son of Kentucky than diadems wear? Be ye cowards and slaves? Are ye no longer free, That thus with your traitorous tyrants ye bear! Then rise in your might, and repel each invader, Nor let our loved land be disgraced by their tread; Let the watchword be, “Freedom and States' Rights forever!” Nor cease till each foe shall lie low with the dead. Louisville, Ky., June 24, 1861
Rebellion Record: Introduction., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), Appendix. (search)
e question come before it, whether the laws of the United States are still binding upon their citizens, I think they would have to put their denial upon the naked doctrine of revolution; and that they could not hold that, as matter of law and regular political action, their ratification deed of May 23d, 1788, is repealed by their late ordinance. Most truly and respectfully yours, Geo. T. Cubtis. Mr. Everett. Appendix B, p. 22. Hon. Reverdy Johnson to Mr. Everett. Baltimore, 24th June, 1861. my dear Mr. Everett . I have your note of the 18th, and cheerfully authorize you to use my name, as you suggest. The letter I read in the speech which I made in Frederick, should be conclusive evidence that, at its date, Mr. Calhoun denied the right of secession, as a constitutional right, either express or implied. But, in addition to this, I had frequent opportunities of knowing that this was his opinion. It was my good fortune to be a member of the Senate of the United Sta
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 15 (search)
Doc. 15.-address to the people of Virginia. unanimously adopted by the convention in session at Wheeling, June twenty-fourth, 1861. The delegates now assembled in convention at Wheeling, deem it proper to address their fellow-citizens throughout the commonwealth, in explanation and vindication of the course they have unanimously felt it incumbent on them to pursue. It is only necessary to allude briefly to the circumstances which called this convention into existence, to justify, in the fullest manner, any resumption of authority by the people in whose name they act. The General Assembly, which met in extra session at Richmond, in January last, without the excuse of impending danger or other grave necessity, and without constitutional authority, convened a convention, to adopt such measures as they may deem expedient for the welfare of the commonwealth; thus tamely relinquishing the very power reposed in themselves by the constitution, and, as the sequel proved, with a
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