Illustrated Life, Campaigns and Public Services of Lieut. General Grant ...: With a Full History of His Life, Campaigns, and Battles, and His Orders, Reports, and Correspondence with the War Department and the President in Relation to Them ...T. B. Peterson & Brothers, 1865 - 257 頁 |
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... early youth and education - Interesting anecdotes ... 24 He enters West Point - His term at that Institution ..... He graduates on June 13th , 1843 ... He enters the Army and is ordered to Missouri - He is ordered to the Southwest- His ...
... early youth and education - Interesting anecdotes ... 24 He enters West Point - His term at that Institution ..... He graduates on June 13th , 1843 ... He enters the Army and is ordered to Missouri - He is ordered to the Southwest- His ...
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... General Wm . Tecumseh Sherman in the West - Capture of Atlanta . 216 General Grant's plans being developed - Early defeated by Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley . 217 The close of the year 1864 , and where the CONTENTS . 19.
... General Wm . Tecumseh Sherman in the West - Capture of Atlanta . 216 General Grant's plans being developed - Early defeated by Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley . 217 The close of the year 1864 , and where the CONTENTS . 19.
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... early part of the sixteenth century , one settling in Connecticut and the other in New Jersey , and from the former sprung the family of which Ulysses is such an illustrious scion . His father , Jesse R. Grant , was born in Westmoreland ...
... early part of the sixteenth century , one settling in Connecticut and the other in New Jersey , and from the former sprung the family of which Ulysses is such an illustrious scion . His father , Jesse R. Grant , was born in Westmoreland ...
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... EARLY YOUTH AND EDUCATION- INTERESTING ANECDOTES . Here Ulysses obtained his early education , and although , as we are told , he was not noted during his years of schooling for any particular acuteness , he evinced that determination ...
... EARLY YOUTH AND EDUCATION- INTERESTING ANECDOTES . Here Ulysses obtained his early education , and although , as we are told , he was not noted during his years of schooling for any particular acuteness , he evinced that determination ...
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... Early in November , 1861 , General Grant received orders from the commanding - general of the Department , to make a formidable movement down the Mississippi towards Bel- mont and Columbus . The order was obeyed , but unfor- tunately ...
... Early in November , 1861 , General Grant received orders from the commanding - general of the Department , to make a formidable movement down the Mississippi towards Bel- mont and Columbus . The order was obeyed , but unfor- tunately ...
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66 HEAD-QUARTERS advance April army corps arrived artillery assault attack batteries battle Bottoms bridge bridge brigade Brigadier-General Brown's Ferry Burnside camp campaign captured cavalry Chattanooga Chattanooga Valley Colonel column command commenced Corinth Court House crossing Department despatch division enemy enemy's engaged eral field Fifth Corps fighting fire flank force front gallant gunboats guns Halleck honor hour hundred infantry intrenchments killed Knoxville Lieutenant-General Lookout Mountain loss Major-General MAJOR-GENERAL U. S. GRANT McClernand McPherson ment miles military Mission Ridge Missionary Ridge Mississippi morning move movement musketry night o'clock obedient servant officers Pemberton Petersburg pickets position Potomac prisoners railroad rear rebel rebellion regiments retreat Richmond rifle-pits river road Rosecrans Secretary Secretary of War sent Sherman side Sixth Corps skirmishers soldiers Spottsylvania Court House staff STANTON surrender Tennessee Tennessee river Thomas thousand troops U. S. GRANT Vicksburg victory Washington WEST TENNESSEE wounded
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第 54 頁 - Yours of this date, proposing armistice and appointment of Commissioners to settle terms of capitulation, is just received. No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
第 260 頁 - The arms, artillery, and public property, to be parked and stacked, and turned over to the officers appointed by me to receive them. This will not embrace the side-arms of the officers, nor their private horses or baggage. This done, each officer and man will be allowed to return to their homes, not to be disturbed by United States authority so long as they observe their parole and the laws in force where they may reside.
第 259 頁 - I cannot, therefore, meet you with a view to surrender the Army of Northern Virginia, but as far as your proposal may affect the Confederate States...
第 260 頁 - I propose to receive the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia on the following terms, to wit: Rolls of all the officers and men to be made in duplicate, one copy to be given to an officer designated by me, the other to be retained by such officer or officers as you may designate.
第 157 頁 - Reliable information being received that the insurgent force is retreating from East Tennessee, under circumstances rendering it probable that the Union forces cannot hereafter be dislodged from that important position ; and esteeming this to be of high national consequence, I recommend that all loyal people do, on receipt of this information, assemble at their places of worship, and render special homage and gratitude to Almighty God for this great advancement of the National cause.
第 259 頁 - AM to-day could lead to no good. I will state, however, general, that I am equally anxious for peace with yourself, and the whole North entertains the same feeling. The terms upon which peace can be had are well understood. By the South laying down their arms they will hasten that most desirable event, save thousands of human lives, and hundreds of millions of property not yet destroyed.
第 192 頁 - We have now ended the sixth day of very heavy fighting. The result, to this time, is much in our favor. Our losses have been heavy, as well as those of the enemy. I think the loss of the enemy must be greater. We have taken over five thousand prisoners by battle, while he has taken from us but few, except stragglers. I PROPOSE TO FIGHT IT OUT ON THIS LINE, IF IT TAKES ALL SUMMER.
第 160 頁 - Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the thanks of Congress be and they hereby are presented to Major-General Ulysies S.
第 259 頁 - GENERAL : I received your note of this morning on the picket line, whither I had come to meet you, and ascertain definitely what terms were embraced in your proposition of yesterday. With reference to the surrender of this army, I now request an interview, in accordance with the offer contained in your letter of yesterday for that purpose.
第 127 頁 - I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition, and the like, could succeed. When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join General Banks ; and when you turned northward east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make a personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. Yours, very truly, A. LINCOLN.