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...Excerpt: In June last a division was substantially lost at or near Winchester, Va. At the time, it was under General Milroy as immediate commander in the field, General Schenck as department commander at Baltimore, and General Halleck...

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...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexi...

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...every wish come true. Daniel entices her into a marriage of convenience. Can she save him from the treacherous political legacy of his late wife? Set in 1871, the story sweeps from the tragedy of the Chicago Fire to the streets of New York and finally to the wild, dangerous coast of Ireland. Is Daniel merely using Morgan for his own deceptions? Or is she right to listen wi...

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...Introduction: Immediately after Lincoln?s re-election to the Presidency, in an off-hand speech, delivered in response to a serenade by some of his admirers on the evening of November 10, 1864, he spoke as follows: ?It has long been a grave question whether any government not too strong for the lib...

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...ist of the navy for the command of squadrons and single ships such officers as he may believe that the good of the service requires to be thus placed in command; and such officers may, if upon the recommendation of the President of the United States they shall receive a vote of thanks of Congress for their services and gallantry in action against an enemy, be restored to t...

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...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of...

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...ND WEST ......................................................................................................... 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI .................................................................................. 130 CHAPTER X: THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI ................................................................................................

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ......................................... 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI................................................................... .................................................... 130 CHAPTER X: THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI................................................................... ...ch side win that may. “We will never abandon the right to the mouth of the Mississippi.” That, in all such arguments, is a strong point with men of th... ...st be accounted as South- ern, although the Northern army has now, in May, 1862, possessed itself of the greater part of the State. To the great West ... ... If a new Senate commence its work in 1861, a new Governor will come in in 1862. But, nevertheless, there is in the form of government as thus establi... ...ates are at a discount with us now, in the beginning of this year of grace 1862; and Englishmen were not very willing to admit the above statement, ev...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...is capital on the banks of the Potomac, knew nothing of the glories of the Mississippi. He did not dream of the speedy addition to his already gathere... ... far as I could judge, was the position of Congress in the early months of 1862; and that, under existing circumstances, was perhaps the only possible... ...at time there were no cotton fields. Alabama and 62 North America V ol. 2 Mississippi were outlying territories. Louisiana had been recently purchase... ...al Buell, who was stationed at Louisville on the Ohio; and the army on the Mississippi, which had been under Fremont, and of which General Halleck now... ...is usually the case with us. At the period of which I am speaking—January, 1862— the health of the army of the Potomac was not as good as it had been,... ...iers to pass through the town on their way to Washington; and in February, 1862, they were nailing Union flags on the door-posts of those who re- fuse...

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... the sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o?clock, in full sea-rig, and with my chest, containing an outfit for a two or three years? voyage, which I had undertaken from a determination to cure, if possible, b...

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... THUNDER STORM CHAPTER XXXV — A DOUBLE REEF TOP SAIL BREEZE—SCURVY—A FRIEND IN . . . . . . . . 183 NEED—PREPARING FOR PORT—THE GULF STREAM CHAPTER ... ...n to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o’clock, in f... ...ery well for a jack tar. But it is impossible to deceive the practised eye in these matters; and while I supposed myself to be looking as salt as Ne... ...ous high pres sure steamers, as large and showy as those of the Hudson or Mississippi, bodies of dazzling - 202 - Two Years Before the Mast Richard... ...she was successful until captured by the rebel steamer Alabama, September, 1862, making a period of more than nineteen years, during which she took... ...d barrels of whale and sperm oil. She sailed last from this port, August 30, 1862, for Hurd’s Island (the newly discovered land south of Kerguelen’s... ... same. The last Entry in the Log Book of the Alert. ‘‘SEPTEMBER 9, 1862. ‘‘Shortly after the ship came to the wind, with the main yard ...