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" The Government of the United States will give the same protection to all its soldiers ; and if the enemy shall sell or enslave any one because of his color, the offence shall be punished by retaliation upon the enemy's prisoners in our possession. "
History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry ... - Page 97
by Luis Fenollosa Emilio - 1894 - 452 pages
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The Days of the Swamp Angel

Mary Hall Leonard - American fiction - 1914 - 336 pages
...order given on the 3Oth of July: " 'The government of the United States will give the same protection to all its soldiers, and if the enemy shall sell or enslave anyone because of his color, the offense shall be punished by retaliation upon the enemy's prisoners...
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Lectures on the Growth and Development of the United States ..., Volume 8

Edwin Wiley, Irving Everett Rines, Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1916 - 590 pages
...against the civilization of the age. " The government of the United States will give the same protection to all its soldiers and if the enemy shall sell or enslave anyone because of his color, the offence shall be punished by retaliation upon the enemy's prisoners...
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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: Ed. by Arthur Brooks Lapsley ..., Volume 6

Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1906 - 524 pages
...against the civilization of the age. The Government of the United States will give the same protection to all its soldiers; and if the enemy shall sell or enslave any one because of his color, the offense shall be punished by retaliation upon the enemy's prisoners in our possession. It is therefore...
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Abraham Lincoln: A Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings

Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - History - 1977 - 292 pages
...against the civilization of the age. The government of the United States will give the same protection to all its soldiers, and if the enemy shall sell or enslave anyone because of his color, the offense shall be punished by retaliation upon the enemy's prisoners...
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The Complete Civil War Journal and Selected Letters of Thomas ..., Volume 53

Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 434 pages
...ordered onjuly 30, 1 863, that the government of the United States would "give the same protection to all its soldiers, and if the enemy shall sell or enslave anyone because of his color, the offense shall be punished by retaliation upon the enemy's prisoners...
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From Rail-splitter to Icon: Lincoln's Image in Illustrated Periodicals, 1860 ...

Gary L. Bunker - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 410 pages
...the civilization of the age. . . . The government of the United States will give the same protection to all its soldiers, and if the enemy shall sell or enslave anyone because of his color, the offense shall be punished by retaliation upon the enemy's prisoners...
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On the Road to Total War: The American Civil War and the German Wars of ...

Stig Förster, Jorg Nagler - History - 2002 - 724 pages
...1863, Abraham Lincoln announced, "The Government of the United States will give the same protection to all its soldiers; and if the enemy shall sell or enslave any one because of his color, the offense shall be punished by retaliation upon the enemy's prisoners in our possession." Edwin M. Stanton,...
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Life of Abraham Lincoln

Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 896 pages
...against the civilization of the age. The Government of the United States will give the same protection to all its soldiers; and if the enemy shall sell or enslave any one because of his color, the offense shall be punished by retaliation upon the enemy's prisoners in our possession. It is therefore...
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Act of Justice: Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and the Law of War

Burrus Carnahan - History - 2007 - 214 pages
...against the civilization of the age. The Government of the United States will give the same protection to all its soldiers; and if the enemy shall sell or enslave any one because of his color, the offense shall be punished by retaliation upon the enemy's prisoners in our possession.31 Lincoln never...
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The Civil War and the Limits of Destruction

Mark E. Neely - History - 2007 - 296 pages
...against the civilization of the age. The government of the United States will give the same protection to all its soldiers, and if the enemy shall sell or enslave anyone because of his color, the offense shall be punished by retaliation upon the enemy's prisoners...
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