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Common terms and phrases1st Lieutenant 2d Lieu 2d Lieutenant Adjutant advance arms army arrived artillery attack battery battle battle of Shiloh Bird's Point brave bravery brigade Brigadier-General Buell Cairo camp campaign Capt Captain captured cavalry charge Chattanooga Colonel command companies Confederate Corinth corps division Donelson duty enemy enemy's engaged enlisted expedition fall back fell field fight fire flag fought Fremont gallant Governor Grant gunboats guns honor hundred Illinois cavalry Illinois regiments ILLINOIS VOLUNTEERS infantry John Julius White July Kentucky killed land Lieut Lieutenant-Colonel Major Major-General McClernand ment miles military Mississippi Missouri morning moved Murfreesboro Nashville night o'clock officers Ohio ordered organized patriotic pickets position President prisoners Railroad rear received reinforcements retreat road Sherman Shiloh skirmishers soldiers Springfield Stone River Tennessee Tennessee River thousand tion troops Union Vicksburg victory W. H. L. Wallace Wallace wounded Yates Popular passagesPage 525 - Then a statement somewhat in detail of a course to be pursued seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented. The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself, and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory... Page 526 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword; as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said — "that the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. Page 88 - ... a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it, accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can, in any event, be abandoned... Page 67 - It is seventy-two years since the first inauguration of a President under our national Constitution. During that period, fifteen different and greatly distinguished citizens have, in succession, administered the Executive branch of the government. They have conducted it through many perils, and generally with great success. Yet, with all this scope for precedent, I now enter upon the same task for the brief constitutional term of four years, under great and peculiar difficulty. A disruption of the... Page 70 - Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions, as to terms of intercourse, are again upon you. Page 67 - I hold that in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution the Union of these States is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments. It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. Page 525 - Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God ; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces ; but let us judge not, that we be not judged. Page 67 - There is some difference of opinion whether this clause should be enforced by national or by State authority; but surely that difference is not a very material one. If the slave is to be surrendered, it can be of but little consequence to him or to others by which authority it is done. Page 513 - I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are and henceforward shall be free, and that the executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons. Page 68 - The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed, in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And, finally, in 1787 one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was "to form a more perfect Union. References from web pagesJSTOR: John B. Turchin: Russian General in the American Civil War Bibliographic information
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