A Picture of the Desolated States: And the Work of Restoration. 1865-1868L. Stebbins, 1868 - 736 páginas |
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... told me of the war and its depredations would have been spoiled by embellishment ; pictures of existing con- ditions , to be valuable , must be faithful ; and what is now most desirable , is not hypothesis or declamation , but the light ...
... told me of the war and its depredations would have been spoiled by embellishment ; pictures of existing con- ditions , to be valuable , must be faithful ; and what is now most desirable , is not hypothesis or declamation , but the light ...
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... told his story . On the morning of the first day's fight he sent his wife away , telling her that he would take care of the house . The firing was near by , over Seminary Ridge . Soon a wounded soldier came into the town and stopped at ...
... told his story . On the morning of the first day's fight he sent his wife away , telling her that he would take care of the house . The firing was near by , over Seminary Ridge . Soon a wounded soldier came into the town and stopped at ...
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... told on him . " " That's the old man who said he was going out to shoot some of the damned Rebels ! ' " " Some officers came and questioned him , endeavoring to con- vict him of bushwhacking . But the old man gave them little ...
... told on him . " " That's the old man who said he was going out to shoot some of the damned Rebels ! ' " " Some officers came and questioned him , endeavoring to con- vict him of bushwhacking . But the old man gave them little ...
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... told me -was in the orchard . She had in her basket rareripes to sell . They were large and juicy and sweet , all the redder , no doubt , for the blood of the brave that had drenched the sod . So calm and impassive is Nature , silently ...
... told me -was in the orchard . She had in her basket rareripes to sell . They were large and juicy and sweet , all the redder , no doubt , for the blood of the brave that had drenched the sod . So calm and impassive is Nature , silently ...
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... told of the cruel in- hospitality shown to the wounded Union troops by the people of Gettysburg . Many of these stories were doubtless true ; but they were true only of the more brutal of the Rebel sympathizers . The Union men threw ...
... told of the cruel in- hospitality shown to the wounded Union troops by the people of Gettysburg . Many of these stories were doubtless true ; but they were true only of the more brutal of the Rebel sympathizers . The Union men threw ...
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acres army bales battle battle-field beautiful Belle Island brick Bureau buried burned Castle Thunder cemetery Chattanooga citizens clothes colored Confederate Corinth corn cotton crop dead dollars a month door Dutch Gap East Tennessee Elijah farms feet fence field fifty fight fire Fredericksburg freedmen Freedmen's Bureau Georgia graves ground half hands heap hill horse hundred hyere labor land living looked master miles Missionary Ridge Mississippi morning mountain mule Murfreesboro negro never niggers night North Northern passed plantations planters poor prisoners railroad Rebel Richmond riding river road rode scarcely scene shell shot side slavery slaves soldiers South South Carolina Southern streets thar thing thought thousand tion told took town trees troops Union Union army Virginia wagon walls whur woods Yankees young Zeek
Passagens conhecidas
Página 675 - Resolved, That Andrew Johnson, President of the United States be impeached of high crimes and misdemeanors.
Página 609 - That it shall be the duty of each officer assigned as aforesaid, to protect all persons in their rights of person and property, to suppress insurrection, disorder, and violence, and to punish, or cause to be punished, all disturbers of the public peace and criminals...
Página 597 - Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two thirds of both houses concurring,) That the following article be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States...
Página 243 - ... and the interest thereof shall be inviolably appropriated to the support and encouragement of common schools throughout the State, and for the equal benefit of all the people thereof; and no law shall be made authorizing said fund or any part thereof to be diverted to any other use than the support and encouragement of common schools.
Página 615 - State legislature, nor held any executive or judicial office in any State and afterwards engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof...
Página 618 - An act to prescribe an oath of office :" Provided, That if any person shall knowingly and falsely take and subscribe any oath in this act prescribed, such person so offending and being thereof duly convicted shall be subject to the pains, penalties, and disabilities which by law are provided for the punishment of the crime of wilful and corrupt perjury.
Página 681 - Washington, and all orders and instructions relating to military operations issued by the President or Secretary of War shall be issued through the General of the army, and in case of his inability, through the next in rank.
Página 603 - We have seen hanging upon the verge of the Government, as it were, a body called, or which assumes to be, the Congress of the United States, while in fact it is a Congress of only a part of the States.
Página 144 - Time! the beautifier of the dead, Adorner of the ruin, comforter And only healer when the heart hath bled — Time! the corrector where our judgments err, The test of truth, love, — sole philosopher, For all beside are sophists, from thy thrift, Which never loses though it doth defer — Time, the avenger! unto thee I lift My hands, and eyes, and heart, and crave of thee a gift: cxxxi.
Página 680 - Columbia, said Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, unmindful of the high duties of his office...