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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The battle of Shiloh [from the New Orleans, la, Picayune, Sept., 25, 1904.] (search)
illed, and should General Beauregard have pressed forward instead of ordering a retreat on the afternoon of the second day's battle. So that what we have mostly of the battle of Shiloh from those who write of it is not what was actually done by the two great armies on that field the 6th and 7th of April, 1862, but what might have been. Shiloh was the first great battle that had ever been fought on the American continent. When the American colonies entered into the war for independence in 1776, they had only an aggregate population of three millions, scattered along the Atlantic Coast from the Penobscot river in what is now the State of Maine, to the Savannah river in Georgia. In 1812, when the second war with Great Britain was begun there were about seven million people in the United States. No great armies were assembled, and no great battles, as measured by great numbers, were fought. When the war between the States, or Civil War, of 1861-5 began, the United States had a po
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.45 (search)
cide that question without appealing to you or me. A large body of the people sufficient to make a nation, have come to the conclusion that they will have a government of a certain form. Who denies them the right? Standing with the principles of 1776 behind us, who can deny them the right? What is the matter of a few millions of dollars or a few forts? It is a mere drop in the bucket of the great national question. It is theirs just as much as ours. I maintain on the principles of 1776 tha1776 that Abraham Lincoln has no right to a soldier in Fort Sumter. These are the words of Wendell Phillips. Can language be more plainer or more forcible in support of the belief and action of the people who united in establishing the Confederate States? So as to the right of secession, the New York Tribune of November 9th, 1860, said: If the Cotton States shall decide that they can do better out of the Union than they can in it, we insist upon letting them go on in peace. The right to secede ma
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)
Murray, Miss Amelia, Tour of, 103. Napoleon, Emperor Louis, 110. Nashville, Abandonment of. 126. New Orleans, Battle of, 23 sion in 1812, 15, 24. New England, Treason of in 1809, 21; seces- North Carolina, Events in 1861, 271; in 1776, 288, 289. North, The Political Bargain of, 14; spirit of, 22; its hatred of the South, 29. Nullification, Ordinance of, 30. O'Ferrall, Hon. C. T., 134. Ord, General E. O. C., 359. Parker, Captain William H., 157. Paris, Count of Raleigh, N. C., Commission for the Surrender of, 164. Randolph, Captain William, 94. Rawlings, Lieutenant E. G., killed, 87. Rebel Yell, Original, 175. Reed, Major D. W., 123. Resolutions of 1798-9, 17. Revolutions of 1861 and 1776 Compared, 292. Rhett, Robert Barnwell, his provision of treaty rights, 205. Richardson, C. A., 172. Richmond, Burning of in April, 1865, 73; Federal force which entered, 76. Ripley, Colonel E. H., 76. Rodes, General R. E., 91, 330.