The Boisterous Sea of Liberty
Part 8. Civil War
The Boisterous Sea of Liberty
A Documentary History of America from Discovery through the Civil War
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Marietta (Ohio) Home News Extra, April 13, 1861
2. "Invasion of our soil will be considered as an act of war" 506
Robert E. Lee, April 24, 1861
3. "The battle [is] opened" 506
Frederic Pearce, May 13, 1861
4. "We had an alarm last night" 507
James R. Kelly, July 22, 1861
5. "We have an agency...for the abolition of slavery in the...war" 508
John Jay, July 24, 1861
6. "The men who have struck this blow at our government are playing for a bigger stake than the right to...extend slavery" 509
David Hopkins, August 18, 1861
7. "I propose to offer you a few suggestions" 510
Abraham Lincoln, October 24, 1861
8. "Nathaniel Gordon was indicted and convicted for being engaged in the Slave Trade" 511
Abraham Lincoln, February 4, 1862
9. "I would like the bill to have...three main features" 511
Abraham Lincoln, March 24, 1862
10. "A great number...were killed on Sunday" 512
Edgar Pearce, April 17, 1862
11. "Shall our mothers, our wives, our daughters and our sisters, be... outraged by the ruffianly soldiers of the North...?" 514
General Pierre G.T. Beauregard, May 19, 1862
12. "Our country is involved in desolating war" 514
Jefferson Davis, August 18, 1862
13. "The Cherokee People...desire...ample Military Protection for life and property" 516
John Ross, September 16, 1862
14. "To the question 'Why was not the rebel army bagged'...?...you answer 'That is not the game'" 518
Abraham Lincoln, September 26, 1862
The Significance of Names 519 The Emancipation Proclamation 520
15. "All persons held as slaves within any State...in rebellion...shall be...free" 520
Abraham Lincoln, September 22, 1862
16. "Lincoln's proclamation will produce dissensions and trouble at the North" 523
Mansfield Lovell, October 30, 1862
17. "An incalculable element of strength to the Union cause" 523
Rufus Blanchard, ca. 1863
18. "How is the Proclamation to be enforced?" 525
Amos Lewis, January 16, 1863
19. "The administration are generally damned by the soldiers" 525
A soldier in the 12th Vermont Militia, January 18, 1863
20. "We have not been paid anything since I was at home" 526
David V.M. Smith, October 5, 1862
21. "We left...numbering near 3600....To day we do not number more than 1200" 526
George C. Burling, October 25, 1862
22. "I proposed a national Banking system" 527
Samuel P. Chase, January 27, 1863
23. "We seem to have the whole world against us" 528
Major General Daniel H. Hill, March 9, 1863
24. "They are all moving to Texas with their Negroes" 528
General William Tecumseh Sherman, March 30, 1863
25. "If I could not command a Co[mpany] of white men, I would not command any" 529
Joseph M. Maitland, April 22, 1863
26. "I am very sorry to hear that the Rebels are in Pennsylvania" 530
Samuel Shenk, June 25, 1863
Gettysburg 530
27. "Worrying will do no good" 530
Captain Josiah C. Fuller, July 4, 1863
28. "Our wickedness...has brought [us] to what we are" 533
Christian M. Epperly, August 15, 1863
29. "I am...in the midst of death in every form and shape" 534
Abram Bogart, September 9, 1863
30. "The whites...will not allow their Ind[ian]s to roam in their midst much longer" 535
George Bonga, October 22, 1863
31. "The condition of the Freed Negroes...is daily becoming worse" 536
James E. Yeatman et al., November 6, 1863
32. "The recruitment of colored troops has become the settled purpose of the Government" 538 Major General Benjamin F. Butler, December 5, 1863 33. "You are directed to have a transport...sent to the...colony established...at...San Domingo" 541
Abraham Lincoln, February 1, 1864
34. "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude...shall exist" 541
Thirteenth Amendment Resolution, April 8, 1864
35. "Be prepared for the worst" 543
Lieutenant John McKinley Gibson, April 12, 1864
36. "White children are to...mix in the same cabin with the Negro with the same Yankee Marm for the teacher!" 544
Tobias Gibson, April 14, 1864
37. "Sad and awful Execution[s] which [have] taken place" 544
Christian M. Epperly, May 8, 1864
38. "If the South gains its independence plenty of slaves can be got from Africa" 545
Tobias Gibson, August 3, 1864
39. "All the senators are more anxious to have Mr. Lincoln live than...ever...before" 545
Mary Y. Prentiss, March 8, 1865
40. "How shall we End the Rebellion...Coax it, or Crush it? " 546
"The Two Roads to Peace," n.d.
41. "I think a majority of the soldiers are for Lincoln" 550
Andrew Knox, September 10, 1864
42. "The cry [is]...on to Richmond" 551
A.R. Lord, April 5, 1865
43. "The Army...has been compelled to yield by overwhelming numbers and resources" 552
Robert E. Lee, April 10, 1865
44. "'The President is murdered'" 553
J.B. Stonehouse, April 14, 1865
45. "The news...came...like a clap of thunder in a clear sky" 554
W. Henry Pearce, April 16, 1865
46. "It is a very hard blow for this nation to lose our President" 554
Union soldier, April 18, 1865
47. "Our country is now in a disturbed condition" 555
Edwin H. McCaleb, June 1, 1865
Toward Reconstruction 557 The Nature and History of the Gilder Lehrman Collection 561
