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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), The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States. (search)
ents of obstruction, but had failed to prevent annexation. The attack was now directed against the war. It was denounced as unnecessary. It could have been avoided. It was a cruel aggression upon a weak adversary. It was precipitated by the slave power. The war was, in truth, necessary and right. Texas justly owned to the Rio Grande, and the United States had assumed the obligation to defend her territory. The Mexican minister had demanded his passports and left Washington early in March, evidently regarding the annexation of Texas as extending to the United States the condition of war then existing nominally between Texas and Mexico. If Mexico chose to consider that war accrued by the annexation of Texas, how could the United States avoid it? Yet Mr. Slidell was sent to Mexico to endeavor to arrange for peace. He was rudely repulsed. President Polk wisely and justly determined to occupy the territory as far as the Rio Grande. It would have been weak and well nigh abs
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), The civil history of the Confederate States (search)
lomat, and Mr. Yost, of Louisiana. Further measures were enacted during February and early in March to exempt certain goods from duty; to modify navigation laws; to punish persons convicted of beif munitions of war. A more formal effort to gain access to the governments of Europe was made in March by the appointment of three commissioners, William L. Yancey, P. A. Yost and A. Dudley Mann, whory, 1863, Governor Andrews, of Massachusetts, was authorized to raise regiments of negroes. In March, George L. Thomas, adjutant-general, was sent West to organize the colored fugitives into militating along the line with constant extensions beyond the Confederate front, occupied the month of March, and it was in the midst of these military movements that President Davis sent in his last messaf habeas corpus in certain cases for a limited time. Then Congress adjourned the latter part of March to assemble no more. Only a few days later Grant broke Lee's lines, forcing his retreat and c
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), Biographical: officers of civil and military organizations. (search)
of Donelson, he began a concentration at Corinth, Miss., and was able to assemble an army of 23,000 by the latter part of March, which was now strongly reinforced by the Confederate government, until he had about 40,000 effective soldiers. At this headquarters at Little Rock. In this department he made a manly struggle against adverse conditions until the following March, when he was relieved by Edmund Kirby Smith, under whose general command General Holmes retained charge of the district oturning to the lines before Petersburg he was assigned to the command of the Second corps, army of Northern Virginia. In March, with about half the depleted army at his disposal, he made a desperate sally and captured Fort Stedman and parts of the , he was thence transferred to New Mexico. February 21, 1861, he resigned his Federal commission, and reaching Augusta in March, he was appointed first-lieutenant, corps of artillery, C. S. A. In this service he was stationed at Pensacola, and in Se