Memoirs of Service Afloat: During the War Between the StatesKelly, Piet & Company, 1869 - 817 ページ |
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... Half - mast the starry flag , Insult no sunny sky With hate's polluted rag . " Instantly , and as if by the touch of a magician's wand , the polluted rag became the rallying cry of the whole Northern people , and of none more so , than ...
... Half - mast the starry flag , Insult no sunny sky With hate's polluted rag . " Instantly , and as if by the touch of a magician's wand , the polluted rag became the rallying cry of the whole Northern people , and of none more so , than ...
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... half , the great Republic was competing with England , the history of whose maritime enterprise ex- tended back a thousand years , for the carrying trade of the world ! This trade , if permitted to continue , would be a pow- erful means ...
... half , the great Republic was competing with England , the history of whose maritime enterprise ex- tended back a thousand years , for the carrying trade of the world ! This trade , if permitted to continue , would be a pow- erful means ...
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... half a mile of the bar , and not stirring an inch from her anchors , night or day . I am only surprised that the Brooklyn does not come up to this anchorage , which she might easily do - as there is water enough , and no military ...
... half a mile of the bar , and not stirring an inch from her anchors , night or day . I am only surprised that the Brooklyn does not come up to this anchorage , which she might easily do - as there is water enough , and no military ...
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... half feet water on the S. E. bar . Unfortu- nately the Sumter draws twelve feet ; so we must abandon this hope . Saturday , June 29th . - A mistake induced us to expend a little coal , to - day , uselessly . The pilot having gone aloft ...
... half feet water on the S. E. bar . Unfortu- nately the Sumter draws twelve feet ; so we must abandon this hope . Saturday , June 29th . - A mistake induced us to expend a little coal , to - day , uselessly . The pilot having gone aloft ...
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... half , or four miles distant ; we were therefore just out of reach of her guns , with nothing to spare . Thick volumes of smoke could be seen pouring from the chimneys of both ships ; the firemen , and engineers of each evidently doing ...
... half , or four miles distant ; we were therefore just out of reach of her guns , with nothing to spare . Thick volumes of smoke could be seen pouring from the chimneys of both ships ; the firemen , and engineers of each evidently doing ...
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afterward Alabama American anchor army arrival bark beautiful belligerent blockade boats breeze British burning Cape Captain captured cargo chase Cienfuegos clouds coal coast colors command commerce Confederate Confederate States Navy Constitution Consul course crew cruise cruisers Curaçoa deck Deerhound enemy enemy's ships England English escape Federal Fernando de Noronha fire flag fleet French gale Gibraltar Government Governor Gulf Stream guns hand harbor hauled hoisted honor hour island Kearsarge land latitude laws letter lieutenant light look Majesty's Government master ment miles morning nations naval Navy neutral night North Northern officers overhauled passed paymaster pirate port prisoners prize Puerto Cabello RAPHAEL SEMMES reader has seen sail sailors Saldanha Bay schooner Secretary Semmes sent Seward shore Simon's Town soon South Southern steam steamer Sumter Table Bay tion took town trade-wind Tuscaloosa United vessel weather whilst wind Yankee
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172 ページ - Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!
211 ページ - KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime...
780 ページ - tis gory, Yet 'tis wreathed around with glory, And 'twill live in song and story Though its folds are in the dust! For its fame on brightest pages, Penned by poets and by sages, Shall go sounding down the ages — Furl its folds though now we must.
18 ページ - Philadelphia, as above recommended, and to join with them in devising and discussing all such alterations and further provisions, as may be necessary to render the Federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of the Union...
38 ページ - When emergencies occur which are either beyond the reach of the judicial tribunals, or too pressing to admit of the delay incident to their forms, states which have no common umpire, must be their own judges, and execute their own decisions.
819 ページ - 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 to be designated by me, the other to be retained by such officer or officers as you may designate.
648 ページ - I am directed by the Governor, to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of yesterday's date, relative to the Alabama. His Excellency has no instructions, neither has he any authority, to seize, or detain that vessel; and he desires me to acquaint you, that he has received a letter from the Commander, dated the 1st instant, stating that repairs were in progress, and as...
58 ページ - ... that this war is not waged upon our part in any spirit of oppression nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution, and to preserve the Union with all the dignity, equality and rights of the several States unimpaired ; and that as soon as these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease.
173 ページ - Melt into morn, and Light awakes the world. Man has another day to swell the past, And lead him near to little, but his last; But mighty Nature bounds as from her birth, The sun is in the heavens, and life on earth; Flowers in the valley, splendour in the beam, Health on the gale, and freshness in the stream. Immortal man! behold her glories shine, And cry, exulting inly,
59 ページ - March sixth, eighteen hundred and twenty, which, being inconsistent with the principle of non-intervention by Congress with slavery in the states and territories, as recognized by the legislation of eighteen hundred and fifty, commonly called the compromise measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void ; it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and...