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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 36 (search)
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32.-President Lincoln's order.
Executive mansion, Washington, November 16, 1862. General order respecting the observance of the Sabbath-day in the army and Navy.
The President, Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, desires and enjoins the orderly observance of the Sabbath by the officers and men in the military and naval service.
The importance for man and beast of the prescribed weekly rest, the sacred rights of Christian soldiers and sailors, a becoming deference to the best sentiment of a Christian people, and a due regard for the Divine will, demand that Sunday labor in the Army and Navy be reduced to the measure of strict necessity.
The discipline and character of the National forces should not suffer, nor the cause they defend be imperilled, by the profanation of the day or name of the Most High.
At this time of public distress, adopting the words of Washington in 1776, men may find enough to do in the service of God and their country without abandoning t
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 49 (search)
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45.-fight near Fayetteville, Va.
New-York Tribune account.
on the front, near Warrenton Junction, November 16, 1862.
onward is still the order of the day, we having, as our part of the great movement now going forward, come to this place to-day, from our last night's camp near Fayetteville.
(In speaking of we and our, I refer to the movements of the Ninth army corps, under General Wilcox, to which I am, pro tem., attached.)
An attack of the enemy upon the baggage-train of the First and Second brigades (Generals Naglee and Ferrero) of Sturgis's division, yesterday forenoon, which resulted in the death of Lieutenant Howard McIlvain, of Durell's battery, and which came very near resulting in the destruction or capture of a portion of the train, has been already partially described to you by another correspondent.
Being personally in the midst of the engagement, from its commencement to its close, I have waited till now to gather together all the particulars of a
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Preston , William Ballard 1805 -1862 (search)
Preston, William Ballard 1805-1862
Statesman; born in Smithfield, Va., Nov. 25, 1805; graduated at the University of Virginia; elected to the Virginia House of Delegates, to the State Senate, and to Congress in 1846; and was appointed Secretary of the Navy by President Taylor.
He opposed the secession of Virginia, but accepted the action of the State and was elected a member of the Confederate Senate.
He died in Smithfield, Va.., Nov. 16, 1862.
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 4 (search)
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Battles, Virginia, 1862 (search)
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Name Index of Commands, Daniel Butterfield
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Name Index of Commands, William B. Franklin
William B. Franklin
Brigadier General Franklin's Brigade, Division of the Potomac, Department of the Potomac
Brigadier GeneralApr. 4, 1862, to May 18, 1862. 1st Division, Department of the Rappahannock
Brigadier GeneralMarch 13, 1862, to April 4, 1862. 1st Division, First Army Corps, Army of the Potomac
Brigadier GeneralOct. 3, 1861, to March 13, 1862. Franklin's Division, Army of the Potomac
Colonel U. S. A. 1st Brigade, 3d Division, Department of Northeastern Virginia
Major GeneralMay 18, 1862, to Nov. 16, 1862. Sixth Army Corps, Army of the P
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Name Index of Commands, Charles Griffin
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Name Index of Commands, Joseph Hooker
Joseph Hooker
Brigadier General Hooker's Brigade, Division of the Potomac, Department of the Potomac
Brigadier General Hooker's Division, Army of the Potomac
Brigadier GeneralMarch 13, 1862, to Sept. 5, 1862. 2d Division, Third Army Corps, Army of the Potomac
Major GeneralJanuary 26, 1863, to June 28, 1863. Department of the Potomac
Major GeneralNov. 10, 1862, to Nov. 16, 1862. Fifth Army Corps, Army of the Potomac
Major GeneralSept. 12, 1862, to Sept. 17, 1862. Second Army Corps, Army of the Potomac
Major GeneralSept. 6, 1862, to Sept. 12, 1862. Third Army Corps, Army of V
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Name Index of Commands, A. P. Howe