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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. 114 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 98 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore) 30 0 Browse Search
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade) 30 0 Browse Search
General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox 28 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) 20 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 20 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 14 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore) 12 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 25. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 12 0 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The causes of the war [from the Sunday News, Charleston, S. C., November 28, 1897.] (search)
nion, the glorious Union, can no more prevent disunion than the cry of health, health, glorious health, can save a patient dangerously ill. Nor can the Union be saved by invoking the name of the illustrious southerner whose mortal remains repose on the western bank of the Potomac. He was one of us—a slaveholder and a planter. And it was the great and crowning glory of Washington's life that he severed a union with Great Britain which had ceased to be mutually beneficial. Said James K. Polk in his inaugural address: One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities, or encroahing on their rights. Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression. How vain this appeal was events proved. Webster for secession. Mr. Webster, in his speech at Capon Springs, Va., in 1851 says: I do not hesitate to say and repeat that if the Northern States refuse wilfully and deliberately to carry into effe
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The battle of Shiloh [from the New Orleans, la, Picayune, Sept., 25, 1904.] (search)
at Paducah about 20,000 men, and to oppose his invasion General Polk had seized Columbus Ky., with about 1,000 Confederates , in Missouri, General Grant commanding the Federal and General Polk the Confederate army. In January, 1862, General Johnstar was held, in which Generals Johnston, Beauregard, Bragg, Polk, Breckinridge and Gilmer took part. The Confederate army wnreal Johnston expressed surprise at the suggestion and Generals Polk and Bragg expressed their dissent. General Johnston cl line was 10,731 strong. The third line, the reserve under Polk (the 1st Corps), with three brigades under Breckinridge. PPolk's corps was massed in columns of brigades on the Bark Road, near Mickey's and Breckinridge's, on the road from Monterey toward the same point. Polk was to advance on the left of the Park road, at an interval of eight hundred paces from Braggright of that road was to give support whenever necessary. Polk's corps was composed of two divisions, Cheatham's on the le
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)
all, Hon. C. T., 134. Ord, General E. O. C., 359. Parker, Captain William H., 157. Paris, Count of, 123. Patterson, Colonel Joseph, 132. Pawnee Sunday, 147. Paxton, A. S., 93. Peabody, Colonel Everett, 132. Peabody, George, 114. Pegram's Battalion, 240. Petersburg to Appomattox, Retreat from, bridges burned, 67. Pettus, Governor John J., 58. Pickett, General G. E., his position at Gettysburg and charge of his Division, 187, 218. Poindexter, W. B., 121. Polk, General L., 125. Polignac, General C. J., his mission to France, 364. Pope, General John, Retreat of 77, 251, 333. Preston, Colonel James F., 174. Protective Policy, The, 30. Pulaski Guards, Company C, 4th Virginia organization of, 175. Quincy, Josiah, on Secession, 19. Raith, Colonel Julius, 132. Raleigh, N. C., Commission for the Surrender of, 164. Randolph, Captain William, 94. Rawlings, Lieutenant E. G., killed, 87. Rebel Yell, Original, 175. Reed, Maj