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Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Debates of Lincoln and Douglas: Carefully Prepared by the Reporters of Each Party at the times of their Delivery. 838 2 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 280 0 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. 246 2 Browse Search
John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History 180 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 140 0 Browse Search
Mrs. John A. Logan, Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife: An Autobiography 96 2 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 80 0 Browse Search
John F. Hume, The abolitionists together with personal memories of the struggle for human rights 76 0 Browse Search
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 66 0 Browse Search
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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 3: the Democracy in 1860. (search)
delegates withdraw and nominate Breckenridge Douglas named by the Southerners political status ofally afraid of the nomination and election of Douglas. They declared that they could not and wouldpersonal observation I learned the fact. Mr. Douglas was my personal friend. The district whichan that if they could get a majority vote for Douglas, they would, before proceeding to ballot furthis preference was for Guthrie. We voted for Douglas seven times consecutively, and the secession ho here is voting for Jeff Davis? A vote for Douglas which will give him a majority is worth $25,0on. If that rule obtained, the nomination of Douglas was impossible. The organization of the convamount of property rarely emigrated. So that Douglas' position, when I. was chosen a delegate, wasto everybody else of any discernment, that Judge Douglas could not be nominated on the platform of irman said, to aid the Southern friends of Judge Douglas. The resolution was as follows:-- Reso[20 more...]
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 5: Baltimore and Fortress Monroe. (search)
Washington was scarcely more than a trifle. The reader will remember that this same Tyler was the delegate from Virginia in the Peace Convention who made a speech protesting against the mounting of cannon in Fortress Monroe, pointing over the sacred soil of Virginia. The Peace Congress, as we have seen, came to nought or worse. With all Scott's loyalty and zeal he could get but a mere handful of troops into Washington. That he was both loyal and zealous is shown by his declaration to Douglas that he had fought fifty years under the flag, and would fight for it, and under it, till death, which was to his high honor and glory. The population of Washington was substantially secession, and much of it virulently so. Hundreds of clerks in the departments during this winter resigned their positions. Several thousand troops were assembling at Harper's Ferry, and two thousand more were below Washington near Fort Washington, one of the outer defences of the city. The rebels relied o
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 20: Congressman and Governor. (search)
form, because I knew how a man from a State like Indiana would construe it. But the delegation of the State of New York carried the nomination of Mr. Cleveland by insisting upon voting as a unit, by voting a majority, which States had not unfrequently done in the Democratic conventions before the war. I remember an instance of Virginia voting a great many times in the Baltimore convention which nominated Pierce in favor of Buchanan, although they stood eight to seven as between Buchanan and Douglas. The nomination of Mr. Cleveland I looked upon as a victory of the free traders of New York City. The convention adjourned and we went home. I had several strong inducements offered me by my friends, purporting to come from the highest authorities, that in case I would support Mr. Cleveland I should receive the highest consideration in his administration. I replied to that, that I wanted for myself nothing of office; my own law office was better pecuniarily and every other way for me
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Index. (search)
federates, 587. Dimick, Colonel, U. S. A., curious question put to, 173; reference to in Scott's order, 240. Dismal Swamp Canal, convict labor on, 847. Dix, General John A., sent to Eastern Virginia by General Scott, 295, 323; possible candidate for Vice-President, 632; reference to 754, 761; Butler reports to, 757. Dodge, Capt., Geo. S., faithful services at Bermuda Hundred, 899. Dodge, Colonel, telegram from, 784; prepared to ship troops on Roanoke expedition, 784. Douglas, Stephen A., as candidate for presidential nomination in 1860, 135, 138, 143, 145; views of slavery, 146,147,148; reference to, 982. Downing, Maj., Jack, incident of President Jackson, 976, 981. Dow, Col., Neal, stands by his men and Butler, 344; report regarding Forts Jackson and St. Philip, 369. Dracut, Mass., teaches school in, 73; home of future wife, 78. Draper, Colonel, raid into Virginia and North Carolina, 617-618. Drury's Bluff, battle of, 663, 666; in reference to, 833, 8