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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. 60 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 36 0 Browse Search
James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 26 2 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 26 0 Browse Search
John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History 24 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: June 11, 1861., [Electronic resource] 23 1 Browse Search
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 17 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: November 3, 1860., [Electronic resource] 16 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 16 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 16 0 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 10. (search)
Jefferson Davis's resolutions the Charleston convention majority and minority reports cotton State delegations secede Charleston convention Adjourns Democratic Baltimore convention Splits Breckinridge nominated Douglas nominated Bell nominated by Union constitutional convention Chicago convention Lincoln's letters to Pickett and Judd the pivotal States Lincoln nominated During the month of December, 1859, Mr. Lincoln was invited to the Territory of Kansas, where he ridge of Kentucky as their respective candidates for President. In the meanwhile, also, regular and irregular delegates from some twenty-two States, representing fragments of the old Whig party, had convened at Baltimore on May g and nominated John Bell of Tennessee as their candidate for President, upon a platform ignoring the slavery issue and declaring that they would recognize no other political principle than the Constitution of the country, the union of the States, and the enforcement o
John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History, Chapter 11. (search)
the enforcement of the laws. Its candidates were John Bell of Tennessee for President, and Edward Everett of chance to carry a slave State, nor Breckinridge nor Bell to carry a free State; and that neither Douglas in the free States, nor Bell in either section could obtain electoral votes enough to succeed. Therefore, but twoions in the following proportion: Douglas, eighteen; Bell, ten; Breckinridge, seven; and the whole opposition as; the division of the remaining two thirds between Bell and Breckinridge was not made public. The bulk of tbe bargained away, and voted directly for Douglas or Bell. In New Jersey a definite agreement was reached by lectoral ticket formed, composed of two adherents of Bell, two of Breckinridge, and three of Douglas; and in s, eleven chose Breckinridge electors, three of them Bell electors, and one of them-Missouri-Douglas electors.ndred and eighty; for Breckinridge, seventy-two; for Bell, thirty-nine; and for Douglas, twelve; giving Lincol
John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History, Chapter 27. (search)
Chapter 27. Bell and Bragg Perryville Rosecrans and Murfreesboro Grant's Vicksburg experiments Grant's May battles siege and surrender of Vicksburg Lincoln to Grant Rosecrans's March to Chattanooga battle of Chickamauga Grant at Chattanooga battle of Chattanooga Burnside at Knoxville Burnside Repulses Longstreet From the Virginia campaigns of 1863 we must return to the Western campaigns of the same year, or, to be more precise, beginning with the middle of 1862. When, in July of that year, Halleck was called to Washington to become general-in-chief, the principal plan he left behind was that Buell, with the bulk of the forces which had captured Corinth, should move from that place eastward to occupy eastern Tennessee. Buell, however, progressed so leisurely that before he reached Chattanooga the Confederate General Bragg, by a swift northward movement, advanced into eastern Kentucky, enacted the farce of appointing a Confederate governor for that St