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John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History 293 1 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 277 11 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 20. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 270 4 Browse Search
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 II. 250 8 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 224 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 207 21 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 204 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 25. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 201 9 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 174 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 1: The Opening Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 174 6 Browse Search
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John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History, Chapter 28. (search)
ghting. He would endeavor to crush the army of Lee before it could reach Richmond or unite with th, it did not escape the vigilant observation of Lee, who instantly threw his force against the flanference was that Grant was always advancing and Lee always retiring. On May 26, Grant reported to Washington: Lee's army is really whipped. The prisoners we now take show it, and the actiony be mistaken, but I feel that our success over Lee's army is already assured. That same night,ed the Union army forward to Cold Harbor. Here Lee's intrenched army was again between him and Ric My idea from the start has been to beat Lee's army, if possible, north of Richmond; then, achmond fell of necessity. The reason was, that Lee's army, inclosed within the combined fortificatnt's active campaign, though failing to destroy Lee's army, had nevertheless driven it into Richmonof about forty miles. The catastrophe came when Lee's army grew insufficient to man his defensive l[10 more...]
John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History, Chapter 29. (search)
, that he had not lost a wagon on the trip, that he had utterly destroyed over two hundred miles of rails, and consumed stores and provisions that were essential to Lee's and Hood's armies. With pardonable exultation General Sherman telegraphed to President Lincoln on December 22: I beg to present to you as a Christmas giftt that he would subject the two Carolinas to the same process, by marching his army through the heart of them from Savannah to Raleigh. The game is then up with Lee, he confidently added, unless he comes out of Richmond, avoids you, and fights me, in which case I should reckon on your being on his heels. . . If you feel confident that you can whip Lee outside of his intrenchments, I feel equally confident that I can handle him in the open country. Grant promptly adopted the plan, and by formal orders directed Sherman to execute it. Several minor western expeditions were organized to contribute to its success. The Union fleet on the coast was held in
John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History, Chapter 33. (search)
common country. With this, Mr. Blair returned to Richmond, giving Mr. Davis such excuses as he could hastily frame why the ,President had rejected his plan for a joint invasion of Mexico. Jefferson Davis therefore had only two alternatives before him-either to repeat his stubborn ultimatum of separation and independence, or frankly to accept Lincoln's ultimatum of reunion. The principal Richmond authorities knew, and some of them admitted, that their Confederacy was nearly in collapse. Lee sent a despatch saying he had not two days rations for his army. Richmond was already in a panic at rumors of evacuation. Flour was selling at a thousand dollars a barrel in Confederate currency. The recent fall of Fort Fisher had closed the last avenue through which blockade-runners could bring in foreign supplies. Governor Brown of Georgia was refusing to obey orders from Richmond, and characterizing them as despotic. Under such circumstances a defiant cry of independence would not rea
John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History, Chapter 34. (search)
fire and dignity of the old Hebrew prophecies, may, without violent inference, be interpreted to foreshadow an intention to renew at a fitting moment the brotherly good — will gift to the South which has already been treated of. Such an inference finds strong corroboration in the sentences which closed the last public address he ever made. On Tuesday evening, April 11, a considerable assemblage of citizens of Washington gathered at the Executive Mansion to celebrate the victory of Grant over Lee. The rather long and careful speech which Mr. Lincoln made on that occasion was, however, less about the past than the future. It discussed the subject of reconstruction as illustrated in the case of Louisiana, showing also how that issue was related to the questions of emancipation, the condition of the freedmen, the welfare of the South, and the ratification of the constitutional amendment. So new and unprecedented is the whole case, he concluded, that no exclusive and inflexible plan
John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History, Chapter 35. (search)
condition of the army when Lee took command Lee attempts negotiations with Grant Lincoln's diender might be avoided. Early in March, General Lee visited Richmond for conference with Mr. Daever upon the lines he had so stoutly defended, Lee resolved to dash once more at the toils by whiche was delayed by the same bad roads which kept Lee in Richmond, and by another cause. He did not way toward the White Oak road, was attacked by Lee and driven back on the main line, but rallied, e that General Grant did not attack and destroy Lee's army on April 2; but this is a view, after thke. Grant, anticipating an early retirement of Lee from his citadel, wisely resolved to avoid the y on the morning of the third. All that day Lee pushed forward toward Amelia Court House. Ther This was strictly true. When Grant replied to Lee's question about terms, saying that the only copractically pardoned and amnestied every man in Lee's army — a thing he had refused to consider the[52 more...]
John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History, Chapter 36. (search)
the document when news came of the surrender of Lee's army, and that the Federal cavalry was pushin news of the fall of Richmond and the flight of Lee and the Confederate government, he was unable t of idolatry, yet the long habit of respect for Lee led him to think he would somehow get away and egun his march upon Johnston when he learned of Lee's surrender at Appomattox. Definitely relie Johnston the same terms that had been accorded Lee, and also communicated the news he had that moroffering his antagonist the same terms accorded Lee, ended, after two days negotiation, by making aforces in his command on the same terms granted Lee at Appomattox; Sherman supplying, as did Grant,ttox the rebellion fell to pieces all at once. Lee surrendered less than one sixth of the Confeder were fixed, after the successive surrenders of Lee and Johnston had left them no prospect in the este of war. Recruiting ceased immediately after Lee's surrender, and measures were taken to reduce
John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History, Chapter 37. (search)
flag of the Union received that day a conspicuous reparation on the spot where it had first been outraged. At noon General Robert Anderson raised over Fort Sumter the indentical flag lowered and saluted by him four years before; the surrender of Lee giving a more transcendent importance to this ceremony, made stately with orations, music, and military display. In Washington it was a day of deep peace and thankfulness. Grant had arrived that morning, and, going to the Executive Mansion, hront of the building. His intentions at this time are not known; he afterward said he lost an excellent chance of killing the President that day. His ascendancy over his fellow-conspirators seems to have been complete. After the surrender of Lee, in an access of malice and rage akin to madness he called them together and assigned each his part in the new crime which had risen in his mind out of the abandoned abduction scheme. This plan was as brief and simple as it was horrible. Powell,
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