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Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3 309 19 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2 309 19 Browse Search
General Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant 170 20 Browse Search
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary 117 33 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 65 11 Browse Search
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 62 2 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 36 2 Browse Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 34 12 Browse Search
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee 29 3 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 29 3 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: September 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Masonic circular. (search)
s, and the tendency of their daily tirades against slavery to strengthen the hands of the Secessionists by uniting all parties at the South, exults, at this masterly stroke of policy. It is, in fact, but an extension of the system inaugurated by Butler, who fell upon the notable expedient of declaring all slaves contraband, and confiscating them as property belonging to the rebels. Fremond and Butler both mean the same thing. They both designed to make the war an anti-slavery war, and such itButler both mean the same thing. They both designed to make the war an anti-slavery war, and such it is to all intents and purposes. It will be observed that Fremont proposes to liberate only such slaves as belong to rebels. But, besides that the slaveholders of Missouri are nearly all "rebels" in this sense of the term, by the very act of setting free so large a body of negroes, he renders that species of property worthless to all other owners. If the negroes belonging to the rebels be all set free, it will become impossible for Union men to retain those which belong to them — They wil
The Daily Dispatch: September 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Fremont and his proclamation. (search)
r editorial paragraph as follows: There is reason to believe that the profound repose which the Southern coast, and the nests of the conspirators in the Cotton States, have been permitted to enjoy, will hereafter be seriously disturbed. Gen. Butler's expedition is not the only one that will be launched. There is nothing to prevent the embarkation of ten thousand men at Baltimore any day, to strike a blow somewhere on the Southern coast. It would not surprise us to learn that Gen. McClemay be that all this is a part of a concerted plan to endeavor to induce us to withdraw troops from Viginia and Missouri, to defend the Southern coast. On the other hand, there may be some such purpose entertained as is here foreshadowed, and expeditious, similar to Butler's late expedition into North Carolina, may be fitting out for a more Southern destination. In either event, it can do no harm to be prepared. Although it may be a feint, it becomes us to prepare ourselves at every point.