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... Prisons . White and his Mule Cart . C Union " One Honest Yankee . " - Books for the Prisoners . Scene in a Prison Yard . The Premises by Moon- A Halter Case . light . Not å แ Love Affair . " - Escape of Two Prisoners . Running the Lines ...
... Prisons . White and his Mule Cart . C Union " One Honest Yankee . " - Books for the Prisoners . Scene in a Prison Yard . The Premises by Moon- A Halter Case . light . Not å แ Love Affair . " - Escape of Two Prisoners . Running the Lines ...
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... Prisoner at Harrisburg . Life among the Yankees . Return Home.- Disloyalty of the People . -News- papers and Churches . Northern and Southern Alabama . Union Men of Ran- dolph County . Great Destitution . - Service of the Freedmen's ...
... Prisoner at Harrisburg . Life among the Yankees . Return Home.- Disloyalty of the People . -News- papers and Churches . Northern and Southern Alabama . Union Men of Ran- dolph County . Great Destitution . - Service of the Freedmen's ...
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... Prisoners ' Caves . The Stockade . - Double Walls . - The Dead Line . Huts and Barrack Sheds . -Out - Buildings . Cemetery . Death Record . In- scriptions . — Rebel Owner's Claim . - Testimony of Georgians .... .468 CHAPTER LXVI ...
... Prisoners ' Caves . The Stockade . - Double Walls . - The Dead Line . Huts and Barrack Sheds . -Out - Buildings . Cemetery . Death Record . In- scriptions . — Rebel Owner's Claim . - Testimony of Georgians .... .468 CHAPTER LXVI ...
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... PRISONER . General S- ' s Visits to Charleston . Taken Prisoner . - Jumping from the Cars . Circular Perambulation ... Prisoners . Plans of Escape . - Exploring the Cistern . - Tunnelling the Walls . Betrayed again . — Grand Scheme to ...
... PRISONER . General S- ' s Visits to Charleston . Taken Prisoner . - Jumping from the Cars . Circular Perambulation ... Prisoners . Plans of Escape . - Exploring the Cistern . - Tunnelling the Walls . Betrayed again . — Grand Scheme to ...
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... the horror and wickedness of war . Yet , as I have said , not all our dead are here . None of the Rebel dead are here . Not one of those who fell on other fields , or died in hospitals and prisons in those States where the war was chiefly.
... the horror and wickedness of war . Yet , as I have said , not all our dead are here . None of the Rebel dead are here . Not one of those who fell on other fields , or died in hospitals and prisons in those States where the war was chiefly.
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Page 675 - Resolved, That Andrew Johnson, President of the United States be impeached of high crimes and misdemeanors.
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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.
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