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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore) 132 2 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 46 2 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 44 2 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 44 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 30 2 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 21 1 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 I. 18 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 12 0 Browse Search
John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History 5 3 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: November 18, 1861., [Electronic resource] 5 1 Browse Search
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C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Eighth: the war of the Rebellion. (search)
nate, when funeral honors were being paid to Col. Baker, we will cast a glance at the feeling in Wasen routed and slaughtered, and the gallant Colonel Baker, who had left the Senate chamber to lead h fiendish delight flashed from their faces. Baker was killed at Ball's Bluff this afternoon. o use that thar water out West. Xviii. Baker's body was brought across the Potomac the evenalifornia, to learn the present condition of Col. Baker's grave; and in reply, I received the followon from Mr. Robert J. Stevens, son-in-law of Col. Baker: Washington, D. C., March 31st, 1874. building, subject to my order. The grave of Baker (at Lone Mountain) is principally marked by th from the proceeds of his small estate. Capt. E. D. Baker—the younger son—is now engaged in carryiosing paragraph of the last speech of Colonel Baker in the Senate, provoked by the insulting wordslf the friends of Freedom, though distant. * * Baker was Orator and Soldier. To him belongs the ra[2 more...]<
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Xv. (search)
o such services or labor, and the person whose labor or services is thus claimed, shall be discharged thenceforth therefrom, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. In substance, the same bill passed the House of Representatives, and the President signed it on the 6th of the following month. This Cooper Institute speech was sent out on the wines of every wind as fast as copies could be thrown out by the Titan arms of steam, and had not a little to do in preparing the country for the higher and more effective policy soon to be adopted. We are restricted from indulging in any description of war scenes, for this book is a record of the deeds of a non-combatant; one who nevertheless swayed a mightier power than any General in the army, or any minister in the Cabinet. But in introducing what Mr. Sumner said in the Senate, when funeral honors were being paid to Col. Baker, we will cast a glance at the feeling in Washington, on the night which followed the battle of Ball's Bluff.
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Xvi. (search)
ht in Washington. One of the unexpected and heart-chilling disasters which befell our arms in the early history of the war, had that day happened at Ball's Bluff (October 21, 1861). Our forces had been routed and slaughtered, and the gallant Colonel Baker, who had left the Senate chamber to lead his splendid California Regiment to the war, had fallen, dying instantly, pierced at the same second by nine bullets. This was a national loss. His place in the army, in the Senate, in the hearts of tues of the capital could tell them at a glance, and, by an instinct of loyalty nearly infallible, know when one of them entered the room, yet on some occasions the sudden announcement of bad news for our cause threw them from their guard, and a gleam of fiendish delight flashed from their faces. Baker was killed at Ball's Bluff this afternoon. Never did news transform men's countenances quicker. One class received it with blank amazement and horror; the other, with demoniac exultation.
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Xviii. (search)
Xviii. Baker's body was brought across the Potomac the evening he fell. It rested all day, and then by ambulance was conveyed to Washirgent, Senator from California, to learn the present condition of Col. Baker's grave; and in reply, I received the following interesting information from Mr. Robert J. Stevens, son-in-law of Col. Baker: Washington, D. C., March 31st, 1874. my Dear Sir,—I hasten to reply to yourmorning, enclosing letter of Mr. C. Edwards Lester, inquiring about Baker monument. The plans for such monument, very magnificent, and studioneers, in their new building, subject to my order. The grave of Baker (at Lone Mountain) is principally marked by the towering monument os was done by myself, from the proceeds of his small estate. Capt. E. D. Baker—the younger son—is now engaged in carrying out the original iSenate. In the closing paragraph of the last speech of Colonel Baker in the Senate, provoked by the insulting words of the Catiline whom<
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Xix. (search)
eld great companies in rapt attention while doing honor to the dead. Over the coffin of Broderick he proclaimed the dying utterance of that early victim, and gave to it the fiery wings of his own eloquence: They have killed me because I was opposed to the extension of slavery, and a corrupt administration; and as the impassioned orator repeated these words, his own soul was knit in sympathy with the departed; and thus at once did he win to himself the friends of Freedom, though distant. * * Baker was Orator and Soldier. To him belongs the rare renown of this double character. Perhaps he carried into war something of the confidence inspired by the conscious sway of great multitudes, as he surely brought into speech something of the ardor of war. Call him, if you will, the Rupert of Battle; he was also the Rupert of Debate. * * Child of Poverty; he was brought, while yet in tender years, to Philadelphia, where he began life, an exile, having being born on a foreign soil. His earlies