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... Rebel Position . - Patriot Graves . - Antietam Valley at Sunset ... CHAPTER V.- THE FIELD OF ANTIETAM . .40 Rebel Line of Retreat . Keedysville . Brick Church Hospital . Porter and his Reserves . Banks of the Antietam . Scenes at the ...
... Rebel Position . - Patriot Graves . - Antietam Valley at Sunset ... CHAPTER V.- THE FIELD OF ANTIETAM . .40 Rebel Line of Retreat . Keedysville . Brick Church Hospital . Porter and his Reserves . Banks of the Antietam . Scenes at the ...
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... Rebel Eye - witness . the Dead . Strange Breastworks . Fidelity of a Dog . Gen. Lee's " Human- ity . " Private Cemetery . The Marye House . Negro who did n't see the Fight . Southern Consistency . Dissolution of the Rebel Army . - The ...
... Rebel Eye - witness . the Dead . Strange Breastworks . Fidelity of a Dog . Gen. Lee's " Human- ity . " Private Cemetery . The Marye House . Negro who did n't see the Fight . Southern Consistency . Dissolution of the Rebel Army . - The ...
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... Rebel Conscript Camp . A Champion of Slavery . - A Rebel . Secesh Song .. CHAPTER XXV.- PEOPLE AND POLITICS . 182 A Conservative Union Man . -A Confederate Soldier's Opinions . - Female Seces- sionists . Confederate Soldiers and the ...
... Rebel Conscript Camp . A Champion of Slavery . - A Rebel . Secesh Song .. CHAPTER XXV.- PEOPLE AND POLITICS . 182 A Conservative Union Man . -A Confederate Soldier's Opinions . - Female Seces- sionists . Confederate Soldiers and the ...
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... Rebel Persecutions . CHAPTER XXXVIII . STONE RIVER . M Rail- • • ..270 Fortress Rosecrans . Rebel and Union Lines . - McCook Surprised . Round For- Cemetery of Hazen's Brigade . - New National Cemetery . est . • 275 CHAPTER XXXIX . THE ...
... Rebel Persecutions . CHAPTER XXXVIII . STONE RIVER . M Rail- • • ..270 Fortress Rosecrans . Rebel and Union Lines . - McCook Surprised . Round For- Cemetery of Hazen's Brigade . - New National Cemetery . est . • 275 CHAPTER XXXIX . THE ...
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... Rebel Militia . Colored " Cavalry " Drilling . Capital and Labor . Louisiana Serf Code . Planters and the Bureau . - Dependence of the Negroes . Defrauded by Whites . Independent Homes for the Freedmen . Colored Schools . - Northern Men ...
... Rebel Militia . Colored " Cavalry " Drilling . Capital and Labor . Louisiana Serf Code . Planters and the Bureau . - Dependence of the Negroes . Defrauded by Whites . Independent Homes for the Freedmen . Colored Schools . - Northern Men ...
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Page 675 - Resolved, That Andrew Johnson, President of the United States be impeached of high crimes and misdemeanors.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 680 - Columbia, said Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, unmindful of the high duties of his office...