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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. 174 0 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) 166 0 Browse Search
Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States. 164 0 Browse Search
Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant 132 0 Browse Search
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army 100 0 Browse Search
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Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 1: (search)
e and Florida wars Alabamians in the war with Mexico. It was Easter Sunday, March 27, 1513. The of Spain in all of South and Central America, Mexico, and much of what is now the southern portion and finally reached the Spanish settlement of Mexico. These were the first white men who ever trodter the death of Montezuma and the conquest of Mexico by Cortez, the Muscogees, a powerful tribe of their wounded. When war was declared against Mexico, thousands upon thousands of patriotic citizen and J. D. Shelley. The regiment proceeded to Mexico, first served under General Pillow and afterwae, also volunteered and served in the war with Mexico. Of these the only cavalry company was that oantry. Many of the Alabamians who served in Mexico became quite distinguished in civil life and iattle at Kingston, Ga. After returning from Mexico, Colonel Coffee lived for fifty years a respecd intellectually. Though quite young while in Mexico, he was appointed military governor of Orizaba[1 more...]
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 2: (search)
ions urging concessions to be made, Mr. Lincoln said: I will suffer death before I will consent or advise my friends to consent to any concession or compromise which looks like buying the privilege of taking possession of the government to which we have a constitutional right. And Horace Greeley used these words to prove to the Southern people that it was useless to expect concessions from the dominant party, and these so-called concessions were matters pending before Congress, all of which were simply efforts to uphold the Constitution. Mr. Lincoln did not attempt to deny that the concessions referred to were right, but gives his refusal to entertain them in these words: Whatever I might think of the merits of the various propositions before Congress, I should regard any concession in the face of menace as the destruction of the government itself and a consent on all hands that our system shall be brought down to a level with the existing disor-ganized state of affairs in Mexico.
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 3: (search)
ar Richmond, October 7, 1864. Professor Tutwiler, the distinguished teacher of Alabama, said of him: Of the many noble young men who perished in our cause, none gave greater promise of distinction and usefulness to his country than John Gregg. Admiral Raphael Semmes was another citizen of Alabama who made for himself a brilliant and unique record. He was born in Maryland and was educated at the United States naval academy. He became a resident of Alabama in 1842, and during the war with Mexico was flag lieutenant of Commodore Conner's flagship. He was placed in command of the Somers, employed in blockading Vera Cruz. When Alabama seceded, he resigned his commission in the United States navy, was at once commissioned naval commander of the Confederate service, and was sent to New York to purchase stores of war. He cruised six months with a small vessel called the Sumter, capturing 7 merchant vessels, but was finally blockaded at Gibraltar, and being unable to get coal, returned
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical. (search)
w in Camden for several years. At the commencement of the war with Mexico he responded to the call of his country, and was an officer in the th Carolina. He won distinction in the battles of that regiment in Mexico, and was wounded in one of them. The year after the return of peacwhich Capt. Preston S. Brooks had come back to recruit. He reached Mexico just after the occupation of the city by the American forces. Retul in his power to make her cause succeed. Having had experience in Mexico he was elected captain of a mounted company, and served on the Florle's house in the city of Mobile. At the beginning of the war with Mexico he and other gallant young men from Alabama joined Colonel Hays' Te served in that rank in the army of General Taylor. Returning from Mexico, he gave his attention to planting. When the war between the StateConfederacy faithfully until the close of the war, when he went to Mexico and afterward to Canada. He died at Clifton, Canada, September 26,