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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 II., chapter 20 (search)
Gen. Gillmore seizes half of Morria Island Gen. Strong assaults Fort Wagner, and is bloodily repulme, Gen.Terry's division, 4,000 strong, and Gen. Strong's brigade of 2,500, were quietly transferreend of James island; while 2,000 men, under Gen. Strong, were silently embarked Evening of July Fort Wagner. After two hours cannonade, Gen. Strong threw his men ashore, disregarding a hot fihies of our success. Next morning, at 5, Gen. Strong led his men to an assault on Fort Wagner, wformed in three brigades: the first, led by Gen. Strong, consisting of the 54th Massachusetts (colouest of its young Colonel, between whom and Gen. Strong a warm attachment had sprung up during theintervening nights: only reaching at 6 p. M. Gen. Strong's headquarters, about midway of the island,our, during which the 54th was addressed by Gen. Strong and by its Colonel; and then — as the dusk , struck dead; here, or just in front, fell Gen. Strong, mortally wounded, with Col. Chatfield and
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 II., chapter 21 (search)
did not delegate. It gave the General Government a standing army, but left to the States their militia. Its purposes, in all this balancing of powers, were wise and good; but this legislation disregards these distinctions and upturns the whole system of government when it converts the State militia into National forces, and claims to use and govern them as such. If, then, the Governors of the States, or of most of them, should see fit to respond to the President's requisitions as Gov. Caleb Strong, of Massachusetts, did to those of President Madison in 1813-14, and as Govs. Letcher, See Vol. I., pp. 459-60. The Democratic Governors were a unit. Ellis, Harris, Magoffin, Jackson, and Burton, did to President Lincoln's requisitions in 1861, the Federal authority may be successfully defied, and what Mr. Jefferson Davis terms the dissolution of a league secured. It were absurd to contend that judges who so held were opposed, either in principle or in sympathies, to the cause, o
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 II., Appended notes. (search)
Dupont's iron clads assail, 467; advance on arrested, 469; the monitors repulsed — the iron-clad Keokuk sunk near, 471; Dahlgren's luckless attack on, 481; Swinton's account of the bombardment of, 467-8-9; evacuation of, 702-3. Fort Wagner, Gen. Strong's assault on, a failure, 477; Gen. Gillmore begins a regular siege of, 478; captured by Gillmore, 481. Fort Warren, N. C., assailed by Rebels, 533-4. Foster, Gen. J. G., accompanies Burnside's expedition, 73; part taken by, in the attackberland Gap, 214; at siege of Vicksburg, 289; at capture of Fort Hindman, 293. Morgan, Major, charges at Pleasant Hill, 543. Morganzia, La., surprised by the Rebels, 340. Morrell, Gen., engaged at Gaines's Mill, 155. Morris Island, Gen. Strong established at, 475; failure to blow up the New Ironsides at, 482. Morris, Gen. L. O., killed at Cold Harbor, 582. Morris, Gen. W. H., at the Wilderness, 571. Morton's Engineers, at Stone River, 275. Moseby, Col. John S., his movem