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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 144 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore) 132 0 Browse Search
William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik 126 0 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 124 0 Browse Search
John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History 124 0 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) 106 0 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 102 0 Browse Search
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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 211 (search)
pay, have remained true to their colors, in the firm conviction in the ability and patriotism of the people to redress our wrongs. Shall we remain here as prisoners, or take a parole and trust to luck? That is the question. I give you a few of the heavy items received by the last mail from New Orleans, which are certainly not encouraging to prisoners of war in a foreign land, viz.: President Lincoln fled from Washington; Gen. Scott resigned and joined the Confederate States; Tennessee, Kentucky, Maryland, and Virginia out of the Union; the Seventh New York Regiment cut up en route through Baltimore for Washington; fifty thousand men from the South surrounding Washington, and the women and children notified to leave; Gosport navy-yard taken by Virginia after a sharp conflict-forty Union men killed. How true the foregoing is we are yet to learn, doubtful if we ever know the truth if depending upon the newspapers received here. It is thus that the citizens of this section are taugh
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 212 (search)
also with scalping knife and tomahawk. Is Kentucky willing to link her name in history with the e movement — has been formally abandoned. If Kentucky separates herself from the Union, it must be s to the support of the Southern Confederacy, Kentucky might prolong the desolating struggle that res that has ever gained credence among men. Kentucky, occupying a central position in the Union, id have stood between her bosom and every foe, Kentucky may read her own. No wonder, therefore, that ch a helpless and self-disintegrating league, Kentucky would probably soon find herself adhering to fluences, slavery will perish rapidly away in Kentucky, as a ball of snow melts in a summer's sun. e premises of a mathematical proposition. Is Kentucky prepared to see the hand upon the dial-plate ced upon the Government of the United States, Kentucky should not look so much at the means which mans. Could my voice reach every dwelling in Kentucky, I would implore its inmates — if they would [13 more...]<
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 233 (search)
which opinion could express itself, the Union party has proved so strong as to neutralize the action of the Secessionist authorities. In Texas, in Missouri, in Kentucky, in Virginia, and in Maryland, and now in Louisiana, there is enough loyalty to the Washington Government to cause a virtual split in each State, resembling thats of there for being a strong antagonism of parties in the Slave States--a circumstance important in the highest degree to the prospects of the war. If Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri are divided between allegiance and Secession, the probability is that other Slave States are also divided. At all events, while opinion is not freates, and especially in the North-west, for the purpose of running off slaves, and, if necessary, of raising them in insurrection. We hear of an insurrection in Kentucky; and whether it is true or not we shall hear of more, both because the owners are always fancying plots, and because the slaves seize every occasion of relaxed s
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 247 (search)
nk God that I may still speak what I think on Kentucky soil. Yes, sir, good, brave old Kentucky, my, a free press, and, as yet, we are free men. Kentucky is true and loyal to the Government. She sti, and bear her to certain destruction. But Kentucky is in a false position. I felt it from the f am willing still to stand by the position of Kentucky, if we can do so in peace and security. But be the last resort, but when the Union men of Kentucky are driven to that necessity, the appeal will and they won't stand it. The Union men of Kentucky, seeing the condition of Union men in the sec-I thank you. Well, as one of the Senators of Kentucky, you made your most solemn protest against thhe had to say to you, (one of the Senators of Kentucky,) that if he had known that Cairo, Ill., was n one side I do not understand. Troops leave Kentucky in broad daylight, and our Governor sees them Cairo folks will never permit you to come to Kentucky again. That's what I wish, and what I believ[9 more...]
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 258 (search)
a relative of the late Henry Clay; but he has never followed the political track of his eminent relative. Henry Clay used to boast that it was by his doing that Kentucky was a slave State. At the time of its organization as a State, a majority of the inhabitants desired to emancipate their negroes, and encourage the immigration , and used his influence with success, to induce his neighbors to follow the Southern practice in regard to the tenure of labor. To do this in such a country as Kentucky was to incur a very grave responsibility. The inhabitants have never taken heartily to Slavery with one accord; their soil and climate are favorable to the employment of white as well as free negro labor; they have seen, across the river, Ohio rising into high prosperity, while Kentucky made little or no progress; and there have been not a few citizens in Mr. Clay's State who have always felt that he was answerable for its inferiority in numbers, wealth, and intelligence, to the States o
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 265 (search)
Caldwell, of Tennessee. To the people of Kentucky. Having been elected by you as your de, yet there were delegates in attendance from Kentucky and Missouri only. One representative chosen by their written and traditional history. Kentucky was right in taking this position — because, ce or rebellion, it becomes the stern duty of Kentucky to look not only to the motives that might imed to her by preserving the Union inviolate. Kentucky has no cause of quarrel with the Constitutiont a western or a south-western State in which Kentucky families are not settled, and she is bound tohe circumstances by which we were surrounded, Kentucky did not put herself in factious opposition tohat act did not take her out of the Union. Kentucky, in so grave a matter as this, passes by mere action cannot be viewed with indifference by Kentucky. Having thus referred to this subject in ig than any that comes from beyond. People of Kentucky look well to it that you do not get to fighti[5 more...]
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 277 (search)
Doc. 253.-to the Germans of Kentucky. The following address to the Germans of Kentucky, from the pen of one of the best of their countrymen, well deserves attention: Frankfort, Ky., June 11, 1861. You and I are Germans by birth, but weKentucky, from the pen of one of the best of their countrymen, well deserves attention: Frankfort, Ky., June 11, 1861. You and I are Germans by birth, but we are all American citizens from choice, and as such we are now called upon to aid either in sustaining or overthrowing the Government of our adoption. Let the enemies of the country disguise and falsify facts as they may, there is but really one question submitted to the brave and free people of Kentucky, and that is this: Shall we any longer have a free Government or not? I warn you, my German brethren and fellow-citizens of Kentucky, not to be deceived by those who are trying to overthrow thKentucky, not to be deceived by those who are trying to overthrow the Government, and reduce you and me to bondage again. We all left our fatherland because we desire to rid our necks of the heel of the tyrant that trampled upon our rights. We have learned to hate tyrants — the proud spirit of our race will never s
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 278 (search)
ning conspiracy of Aaron Burr. President Madison, during the war of 1812, when doubts were entertained of the loyalty of the Hartford conventionists, who were falsely reported to be in correspondence with the enemy, stationed Major Jessup, of Kentucky, at Hartford, with a regiment, to suppress any sudden outbreak. Gen. Jackson, about the same time, in New Orleans, proclaimed martial law in consequence of attempts by the civil authorities to embarrass the necessary measures of defence. Pre and imports from foreign climes. The Mississippi, source and channel of prosperity to North and South alike in every mile of its progress; on the West to Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana; on the East to Wisconsin, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi, proclaims to the citizens of the immense region which it waters through thousands of miles in extent, from North to South, and East to West, that our country is one and indivisible. Our duty to the South forbids o
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 291 (search)
n, others are waning in their light, and the whole heavens are covered with the gloomy portent of universal destruction. When shall this ruin end? Where is the rock which will stand and throw back the mad destructive waves of revolution, and arrest the fearful, fatal, desolating progress of secession! Through the mist of the tempest, I think I see that rock rising in moral power and sublimity along the whole southern line of North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas, supported by Missouri, Kentucky, Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware, and above the mad, riotous, and exulting shout of successful secession and triumphant revolution. From that rock I hear a voice, like the voice of God, saying to the raging sea, Thus far shalt thou go and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed. Here I trust, is the rock of safety, standing in the centre of the American Union. The extremities may become cold, and lose their sensibilities, their love for our gallant flag, their pride for our
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