Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the RebellionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1897 |
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32-pounders Acting Master anchor arrival Atlantic Blockading Squadron August battery Beaufort boat C. S. Army Cape Captain captured cargo Charleston coast Comdg commanding Atlantic Blockading commanding North Atlantic commanding U. S. S. Commodore Confederate crew dispatch enclose Enclosure enemy February fire Flag Flag-Officer Goldsborough Flag-Officer L. M. GOLDSBOROUGH Flag-Officer S. H. STRINGHAM Flag-Officer Stringham Fort Hatteras GIDEON Gosport Norfolk Hampton Roads Hatteras Inlet herewith instant JOHN MARSTON July letter Lieutenant Commanding Major-General miles Monticello morning naval NAVY DEPARTMENT Navy to Flag-Officer navy yard Norfolk North Atlantic Blockading North Carolina obedient servant Pamlico Sound port rebel received regarding Report of Commander Report of Flag-Officer respectfully rifled gun Roanoke Island sail Savannah schooner Secretary of Navy senior officer sent September shell shore shot sloop steam steamer troops U. S. FLAGSHIP MINNESOTA U. S. Navy U. S. S. MINNESOTA vessel Virginia Washington West India Squadron Wilmington York
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Page 90 - WHEREAS the laws of the United States have been for some time past and now are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed, in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Page 90 - An act to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions, and to repeal the act now in force for that purpose...
Page 253 - ' recommend a day of public humiliation, prayer, and fasting to be observed by the people of the United States with religious solemnities and the offering of fervent supplications to Almighty God for the safety and welfare of these States, His blessings on their arms, and a speedy restoration of peace...
Page 91 - States, with the exceptions aforesaid, by land or water, together with the vessel or vehicle conveying the same, or conveying persons to or from said States, with said exceptions, shall be forfeited to the United States; and that from and after fifteen days from the issuing of this proclamation all ships and vessels belonging in whole or in part to any citizen or inhabitant of any of said States, with said exceptions, found at sea or in any port of the United States will be forfeited to the United...
Page 91 - Mountains, and of such other parts of that State and the other States hereinbefore named as may maintain a loyal adhesion to the Union and the Constitution, or may be, from time to time, occupied and controlled by the forces engaged in the dispersion of said insurgents, are in a state of insurrection against the United States, and that all commercial intercourse between the same and the inhabitants thereof, with the exception aforesaid, and the citizens of other States, and other parts of the United...
Page 90 - States, and such claim is not disclaimed or repudiated by the persons exercising the functions of government in such State or States, or in the part or parts thereof in which...
Page 506 - ... obviously hostile preparations on the right bank of the river, accompanied by a rigid non-intercourse, I carefully abstained from any act of hostility, determined that the onus of producing an actual state of hostilities, should not rest with me. Our relations remained in this state until I had the honor to receive your note of the 12th instant, in which you denounce war as the alternative of my remaining in this position. As I could not under my instructions recede from my position, I accepted...
Page 508 - I go beyond a moderate joint proclamation with the naval commander, whicfh should say as little as possible about politics or the negro ; merely state that the true issue for which we are fighting is the preservation of the Union, and upholding the laws of the general government, and stating that all who conduct themselves properly will, as far as possible, be protected in their persons and property.
Page 91 - In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. "Done in the City of Washington, this...
Page 90 - Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, in pursuance of an act of Congress approved July...