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... showed to run off his horses and get his goods out of Rebel reach . From Harrisburg I went , by the way of York and Hanover , to Gettysburg . Having hastily secured a room at a hotel in the Square , ( the citizens call it the " Di'mond ...
... showed to run off his horses and get his goods out of Rebel reach . From Harrisburg I went , by the way of York and Hanover , to Gettysburg . Having hastily secured a room at a hotel in the Square , ( the citizens call it the " Di'mond ...
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... showed me the scene of his hot day's work , — pointed out two trees behind which he and one of the Wisconsin boys stood and " picked off every Rebel that showed his head , " and the spot where he fell and lay all night under the stars ...
... showed me the scene of his hot day's work , — pointed out two trees behind which he and one of the Wisconsin boys stood and " picked off every Rebel that showed his head , " and the spot where he fell and lay all night under the stars ...
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... showed what a real and terrible thing the disaster was to this man , far dif- ferent from the trifle it appears on paper . I found everybody full of talk on this great and absorbing topic . On the night of July 29th , 1864 , the Rebel ...
... showed what a real and terrible thing the disaster was to this man , far dif- ferent from the trifle it appears on paper . I found everybody full of talk on this great and absorbing topic . On the night of July 29th , 1864 , the Rebel ...
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... cept a strip by the pike , ' said the ploughman . " That was jist like a sifter . Some of the rails have been cut up and carried away for the bullet - holes . " A THE DUNKERS . 49 He showed me marks still 48 THE FIELD OF ANTIETAM .
... cept a strip by the pike , ' said the ploughman . " That was jist like a sifter . Some of the rails have been cut up and carried away for the bullet - holes . " A THE DUNKERS . 49 He showed me marks still 48 THE FIELD OF ANTIETAM .
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... showed me marks still remaining on the fence . Some of our soldiers had cut their names upon it ; and on one post some pious Roman Catholic had carved the sacred initials : " I. H. S. " " I reckon that was a soldier's name too , " said ...
... showed me marks still remaining on the fence . Some of our soldiers had cut their names upon it ; and on one post some pious Roman Catholic had carved the sacred initials : " I. H. S. " " I reckon that was a soldier's name too , " said ...
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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...