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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 629 629 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 33 33 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 16 16 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 16 16 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 10: The Armies and the Leaders. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 16 16 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Name Index of Commands 14 14 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 9 9 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 5 5 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 5 5 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 5 5 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 September, 1862 AD or search for September, 1862 AD 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)
, and making no complaint of its limitations of territory to States and parts of States still contumacious, which were sure to give way before political and military necessities. The general judgment now is that the President's advance in an antislavery policy came as early and was as rapid as the state of public sentiment admitted; but this view does not impeach the wisdom of antislavery men who, by earlier agitation in favor of that policy, prepared the way for his decisive step in September, 1862. If they had left the field to the border State men and Northern conservatives, he would have had no public opinion to support him. They were also clearly right in their position that during the waiting period there should be no declarations or action adverse to an antislavery policy by the President or Congress, or by generals in the field, or in correspondence with foreign powers. Mr. Schurz's Essay on Lincoln, pp. 77, 93, implies a criticism of the pressure which was made on the
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)
opinion far more than at a later period, was a potent influence against the American cause. An American living in London during the war collected in scrap-hooks all the leaders, correspondence, telegrams, and items concerning the United States which appeared in the Times. Mr. Bright, who saw them once, used to say that there were more lies between those covers than between any others ever known. English public opinion was notably affected by the proclamations of emancipation of September, 1862, and January, 1863. The change was at first most marked among the masses,— among those who were swayed by democratic instincts,—but it soon appeared in the altered tone of the leading journals and of public men. Great meetings were held to express sympathy with our cause; and the moral and religious sentiment of the country, particularly among Non-Conformists, set strongly in our favor. A paper signed by thirteen thousand five hundred people of Birmingham, expressing sympathy with t