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...ce and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list 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 Con...

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.... LINCOLN. 6 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six SPEECH TO THE 12TH INDIANA REGIMENT, MA Y [15?] 1862 SOLDIERS, OF THE TWELFTH INDIANA REGIMENT... ...ree government and free institutions. For the part which you and the brave army of which you are a part have, under Providence, performed in this grea... ...re prudent, it would re- quire more time to effect a junction between your army and that of the Rappahannock by the way of the Potomac and Y ork river... ...ANTON, Secre- tary of War. MAJOR-GENERAL GEORGE B. McCLELLAN, Com- manding Army of the Potomac, before Richmond. PROCLAMATION REVOKING GENERAL HUNTER’... ... W AR DEPARTMENT, W ASHINGTON, D.C. June 28, 1862. GOVERNOR O. P . MORTON, Indianapolis, Ind: Y our despatch of to-day is just received. I have no rec... ... Tennessee. H. R. Gamble, Governor of Missouri. O. P . Morton, Governor of Indiana. David T odd, Governor of Ohio. Alexander Ramsey, Governor of Minne... ...ton himself endured greater physical hard- ships than if he had remained a British subject, yet he was a happy man because he had engaged in benefitin... ...y. The great interior region bounded east by the Alleghenies, north by the British domin- ions, west by the Rocky Mountains, and south by the line alo... ...homestead, is our ample resource. Were our territory as limited as are the British Isles, very certainly our population could not expand as stated. In...

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...r of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several States on the two continents, were deeply interested in the matter....

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... sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several States on the two... ...happened about five o’clock in the morn- ing, as the day was breaking. The officers of the quarter- deck hurried to the after-part of the vessel. They... ...decide by their appearance whether they are Spaniards, Turks, Arabians, or Indians. As to their language, it is quite incomprehensible.” “There is the... ... portions: the Arctic or Frozen Ocean, the Antarctic, or Frozen Ocean, the Indian, the Atlantic, and the Pacific Oceans. The Pacific Ocean extends fro... ...d in the North Pacific, a fourth in the South, and a fifth in the Southern Indian Ocean. It is even probable that a sixth current existed at one time ... ...ich he treasures all his greatest wonders.” For two whole hours an aquatic army escorted the Nau- tilus. During their games, their bounds, while rival... ...an hour. But I saw noth- ing, not even the Island of Perim, with which the British Government has fortified the position of Aden. There were too many ... ...s, neverthe- less, crossed there to reach the Promised Land, and Pharaoh’s army perished precisely on that spot; and I think that excavations made in ... ...s Verne than 120 miles from Ireland. Was Captain Nemo going to land on the British Isles? No. To my great surprise he made for the south, once more co...

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....................................................... 37 Chicago ..................................................................... 46 The American Army ................................................... 55 America?s Defenceless Coasts ................................. 60...

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............................................................. 46 The American Army ................................................... 55 America’s Defen... ...hile I was getting ashore, demanding of all things in the world news about Indian journalism. It is an awful thing to enter a new land with a new lie ... ...rests us,” he said. “Have you got reporters anything like our reporters on Indian newspapers?” “We have not,” I said, and suppressed the “thank God” r... ...certain of it, why, then—I waited developments. “And what did you think of Indiana when you came through?” was the next question. It revealed the myst... ...x-officer of the South over his evening drink to a colonel of the Northern army, my introducer, who had served as a trooper in the Northern Horse, thr... ...lly wondrous tales of riata-throwing in Mexico and Arizona, of gambling at army posts in Texas, of newspaper wars waged in godless Chi- cago (I could ... ...er. Observe the beauty of this business. The third battalion will have its officers, but no men; the fourth will probably have a rendezvous and some e... ...ed passes away must be cut down fifty per cent, to the huge delight of the officers. The military needs of the States be three: (a) Frontier warfare, ... ...y they inspire (two trunks and a walking-stick and a bit of pine forest in British Columbia are not satisfactory, any way you look at them), I turned ...

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...VI: CAIRO AND CAMP WOOD......................................................................................................... 114 CHAPTER VII: THE ARMY OF THE NORTH..................................................................................................... 135 CHAPTER VIII: BACK TO BOSTON.............................................................................

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........................................................ 114 CHAPTER VII: THE ARMY OF THE NORTH ............................................................ ...y hair, but often covered with feathers, and is intended to typify the red Indian. The red Indian is generally supposed to be receiving comfort; but i... ... and then I knew that the Post-office had become a provision depot for the army. The official arrangements here for the public were so bad as to be ab... ...given. It no doubt may be said in excuse for this that the presence of the army round Washington caused, at that period, special inconvenience; and th... ... about through the Patent-office I also found a hospital for sol- diers. A British officer was with me who pronounced it to be, in its kind, very good... ...interrupted whether he would consent to be so treated. “The gentleman from Indiana has the floor.” “The gentleman from Ohio wishes to ask the gentlema... ... has the floor.” “The gentleman from Ohio wishes to ask the gentleman from Indiana a question.” “The gentleman from Indiana gives permission.” “The ge... ... impede the celerity of the work to be done, and that a closer copy of the British model might not on the whole increase the efficiency of the America... ... Committee on Foreign Affairs, which position is as near akin to that of a British minister in Parliament as can be attained under the existing Consti...

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...f the new notes I owe to a review of the Selections by Dr. Lane Cooper, of Cornell University. I wish also to thank for many favors the Committee and officers of the Glasgow University Library....

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...Cornell University. I wish also to thank for many favors the Committee and officers of the Glasgow University Library. If a word by way of suggestion ... ...on: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1895. 9. E. T . MASON. Personal T raits of British Authors. New York, 1885. [4 vols. The volume subtitled Scott, Hogg,... ... table arranged for themselves in a corner of the general room. Yet, if an Indian screen could be found ample enough to plant them out from the very e... ...for shelter? Is a prison the safest retreat? or a lunatic hospital? or the British Museum?” I should have replied, “Oh no; I’ll tell you what to do. T... ...rvals from the field of Waterloo. As though it had been mere felony in our army to look a French one in the face, he said in more notes than one, date... ...hat I could not but ask her if she had not some relative in the Peninsular army. Oh yes; her only son was there. In what regiment? He was a trooper in... ...and strong, then ascended the hill, and fixed the gaze of the whole French army. As regarded themselves, the 23d were supposed at first to have been b... ...r lay mangled together. But I told her how these dear children of England, officers and privates, had leaped their horses over all obstacles as gaily ... ...e it must go undone. The bet- ter men that I meant were the sailors in the British navy, every man of whom mends his own stockings. Who else is to do ...

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...ey sometimes gave names out of the Bible to places, Salem means Peace. The Indian name was Naumkeag.} Peter Palfrey, Roger Conant, and one or two more... ... and are armed with bows and arrows, and flint headed spears. These are an Indian sagamore and his attendants, who have come to gaze at the labors of ... ...orth to till his cornfield and set out fruit trees, or to bargain with the Indians for furs, or perchance to oversee the building of a fort. Also, bei... ...England. But soon afterwards, Sir Edmund Andros, an officer of the English army, arrived, with a commission to be governor general of New England and ... ...hair, was the arrival at Boston of an English fleet in 1698. It brought an army which was intended for the conquest of Canada. But a malignant disease... ...ss caused the gover nor and Sir Francis Wheeler, who was commander of the British forces, to give up all thoughts of attacking Canada. “Soon after th... ...e government of Massachu setts was called upon to find provisions for the army and fleet, and to raise more men to assist in taking Canada. What with... ... a mob of the Boston people. They were so in censed at the conduct of the British Commodore Knowles, who had impressed some of their fellow citizens,... ...s of Acadia ever reached the ears of Louis XV . The exiles grew old in the British prov inces, and never saw Acadia again. Their descendants remain a...

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...so much obscurity in the In- dian traditions, and so much confusion in the Indian names, as to render some explanation useful. Few men exhibit greater... ...pinion, and some few that would seem to weigh against it. The color of the Indian, the writer believes, is peculiar to himself, and while his cheek-bo... ... the substantial difference which exists in the latter. The imagery of the Indian, both in his poetry and in his oratory, is oriental; chastened, and ... ...nders, were but the natural participators. They had recently seen a chosen army from that country, which, reverencing as a mother, they had blindly be... ...y, which, reverencing as a mother, they had blindly believed invincible—an army led by a chief who had been selected from a crowd of trained warriors,... ...e danger into which he was heedlessly running, saved the rem- nants of the British army, on this occasion, by his decision and courage. The reputation... ... into which he was heedlessly running, saved the rem- nants of the British army, on this occasion, by his decision and courage. The reputation earned ... ...ng of a summer sun. The 10 The Last of the Mohicans loyal servants of the British crown had given to one of these forest-fastnesses the name of Willi... ...or- tage with his savages, every yell and whoop from whom rang through the British encampment, chilling the hearts of men who were already but too muc...

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...gle) the greatness of the power of Russia, which was still in those days a British bogey; in making Belgium the battle-ground in a coming struggle bet... ...uld find in the divines and dignitaries of the Vatican, of the Russian and British official churches, or of any other of the multitudinous Christian s... ...ge, dream- ing of a renewal of the struggle, it becomes impossible for the British, the French, the Belgians, Russians, Italians or Japanese to think ... ...ng, the Allies as contem- porary soldiers. They were going to fight a 1900 army with a 1914 army, and their whole opening scheme was based on the conv... ...that seem to form the chief reading of our military experts, said that the army that entrenches is a defeated army. The silly dictum was repeated and ... ...against science, discipline, and priggishly keeping fit enough to join the army, as very good fun indeed, good matter for some jolly reeling ballad ab... ...exities arising out of those British dependencies of non- British race—the Indian states, for example, whose interests are sometimes in conflict with ... ...ciple, for example. South Africa again takes a line with regard to British Indian subjects which is highly em- barrassing to Great Britain. There is a... ...Latin black culture should not extend across equatorial Africa to meet the Indian influence at the coast, and reach out to join hands with Madagascar....

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...ghty days, now that the section between Rothal and Allahabad, on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, has been opened. Here is the estimate made by the... ...gg, continuing to play despite the discussion. “But suppose the Hindoos or Indians pull up the rails,” replied Stuart; “suppose they stop the trains, ... ...he come directly from Brindisi?” “Directly from Brindisi; she takes on the Indian mails there, and she left there Saturday at five p.m. Have patience,... ...ian peninsula. Among the passengers was a number of officials and military officers of various grades, the latter being either attached to the regular... ...fficers of various grades, the latter being either attached to the regular British forces or com- manding the Sepoy troops, and receiving high salarie... ... returning to his parish at Bombay; and a brigadier-general of the English army, who was about to rejoin his brigade at Benares, made up the party, an... ...ad unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls. The British Crown exercises a real and despotic dominion over the larger por- t... ...s at Madras, Bombay, and in Bengal, and a lieutenant-governor at Agra. But British India, properly so called, only embraces seven hundred thousand squ... ...CE The train had started punctually. Among the passengers were a number of officers, Government officials, and opium and indigo merchants, whose busin...

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...ry other undertaking, it must be the “end” that will “crown the work.” The Indian character has so little variety, that it has been my object to avoid... ...ndeed, a male and female, belonged to the native owners of the soil, being Indians of the well-known tribe of the Tuscaroras; while their companions w... ....” As he concluded, the uncle drew a hand from his bosom, touched the male Indian, who was standing near him, lightly on the shoulder, and pointed out... ...d powerless hunter and scout and guide. My real calling is to hunt for the army, on its marches and in times of peace; although I am more especially e... ... which we are writing, Oswego was one of the extreme frontier posts of the British possessions on this conti- nent. It had not been long occupied, and... ...ngs; but we have our feelings and our idees, as well as any general in the army. Both Jasper and I would have died before you should have come to harm... ... repinings got to pall on the appetite. The coarse and regular food of the army, which it became necessary to husband on account of the difficulty of ... ...ualities, as it might be.” “A French master is but a poor instructor for a British sailor, notwithstanding.” “I beg your pardon, sir: Jasper Eau-douce... ...honor’s leave.” “It’s a d——d lingo, and never did any one good—at least no British subject; for I suppose the French themselves must talk together in ...

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...CUTIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, D. C., October 30, 1863. MAJOR-GENERAL MEADE, Army of Potomac: Much obliged for the information about deserters contained... ... that position. If not, let him retake his commis- sion and return to the army for the benefit of the country. This will heal a dangerous schism for ... ...ADE EXECUTIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, November 3, 1863. MAJOR-GENERAL MEADE, Army of Potomac: Samuel Wellers, private in Company B, Forty-ninth Pennsyl-... ...d their authority to prevent the departure of new hostile expeditions from British ports. The Emperor of France has, by a like proceeding, promptly v... ...of the several organized Territories is gener- ally satisfactory, although Indian disturbances in New Mexico have not been entirely suppressed. The m... ...rsements there were for the civil service $23,253,922.08, for pensions and Indians $4,216,520.79, for interest on public debt $24,729,846.51, for the ... ... you, for useful and varied infor- mation in relation to the public lands, Indian affairs, patents, pensions, and other matters of public concern pert... ...o merchandise warehoused under bond the privilege of being exported to the British North American prov- inces adjoining the United States, in the mann... ... other ports, situated on the frontiers of the United States adjoining the British North American provinces, as may hereafter be found expedient, may ...

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...heir native land, the French formerly called this river the St. Louis. The Indians, in their pompous language, have named it the Father of Waters, or ... ...ist between the physical conformation, the language, and the habits of the Indians of North America, and those of the T ongous, Mantchous, Mongols, T ... ...“Conjecture sur l’Origine des Americains”; Adair, “History of the American Indians.” 31 Tocqueville neither white like the Europeans, nor yellow like... ...ople has been clearly observable – In what respects all who emi- grated to British America were similar – In what they dif- fered – Remark applicable ... ...ristocracy, but simply the class of the rich and that of the poor. All the British colonies had then a great degree of similar- ity at the epoch of th... ...emigration went on. The religious and political passions which ravaged the British Empire during the whole reign of *The emigrants who founded the Sta... ... minority has as yet been reduced to declare open war, the necessity of an army has not been felt.* The State usually employs the officers of the town... ...ited States it must be added that, with the cessation of the contest, this army disappeared as rapidly as it had been raised. – T ranslator’s Note. 1... ...the Influence of the Executive Government External security of the Union – Army of six thousand men – Few ships – The President has no opportunity of ...

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...ist- ence for making things clear, counteracting hostile sugges- tion, the British official organisations are comparatively in- effective; but what is... ...btle critic, calling in upon me after brav- ing the wintry seas to see the British fleet; M. Joseph Reinach follows them presently upon the same erran... ...nyone who from the perspective of Italy may seem to be a representative of British opinion. If Herbert Spencer had been alive General Radcliffe would ... ...han it experienced; it was steadily beating the spirit out of the Ger- man army and shoving it back towards Germany. Only peace can, I believe, preven... ... watercourses, with plentiful willows beside the road, vines and fields of Indian corn and suchlike lush crops. Always quite soon one came to some old... ... And upon the roads and beside them was the enormous equipment of a modern army advancing. Everywhere I saw new roads being made, railways pushed up, ... ...ino offensive, which exhausted Austria, wasted the flower of the Hungarian army and led directly to the Galician disasters and the intervention of Rum... ...tiful church, and then suddenly we are in a village street full of stately Indian soldiers. It betrays no military secret to say that commonly the rar... ...e and a common aim with the French and Irish and Italians and Russians and Indians. It is to that outer Britain that those Englishmen you found so int...

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... onward into the land whose last warlike disturbance had been when the red Indians trod it. Septimius heard it, and knew, like the rest, that it was t... ...nd; the heavy harquebus, which per haps had levelled one of King Philip’s Indians; the old King gun, that blazed away at the French of Louisburg or Q... ...ds, straggling across fields. Then he caught sight of the regular array of British soldiers, filling the road with their front, and marching along as ... ... perceive. Almost at the same moment a company of 24 Septimius Felton the British soldiers wheeled from the main body, and, dash ing out of the road... ...the main body as to fire upon it. He looked and saw that the detachment of British was plunging down one side of this gap, with intent to as cend the... ...had passed on account of his rudeness to Rose Garfield. Septimius’s fierce Indian blood stirred in him, and gave a murderous excitement. “Ah, it is yo... ...ence over him, having now regu 57 Hawthorne larly joined the Continental Army, and being engaged in the expedition of Arnold against Quebec. Indeed,... ...on of his Majesty’s sixteenth regiment, which I quitted when his Majesty’s army quitted Boston, being desirous of trying my fortunes in your country, ... ...ise some new modes of medical science, which I could not so well do in the army.” “I think you are quite right, Doctor Jabez Portsoaken,” said Septimi...

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...of meeting, and Sego, or Sago, the ordinary term of salutation used by the Indians of this region. There is a tradition which says that the neighborin... ...ngthen their alliances, and which refers the name to this practice. As the Indian agent of New Y ork had a log dwelling at the foot of the lake, howev... ...ffice of a smoke-house. In 1779 an expedition was sent against the hostile Indians, who dwelt about a hundred miles west of Otsego, on the banks of th... ...ure maintenance. Major Effingham, in declin- ing the liberal offers of the British ministry, had subjected himself to the suspicion of having attained... ... I think, although I am an ignorant man about the great move- ments of the army, that his excellency would have been able to march against Cornwallis ... ...gain, there was a hole under your lee-quarter big enough to hold the whole British navy.” “Oh! for massy’s sake! and wa’n’t you afeard, Benjamin? and ... ...matter, can talk the language almost as well as myself, or any native-born British subject. Y ou’ve forgot your schooling, and the young mistress is a... ...that the eye cannot see the end of. There is food enough in it to keep the army of Xerxes for a month, and feathers enough to make beds for the whole ... ...gents among the different tribes of Indians, and sometimes officers in the army , who frequently passed half their lives on the edge of the wilderness...

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...a WILLOW SHAW, the little fenced wood where the hop-poles are stacked like Indian wigwams, had been given to Dan and Una for their very own kingdom wh... ...e was Colonel of Dad’s Regiment, the Thirty-third Foot, after Dad left the Army , and then he changed his name from Wesley to Wellesley, or else the o... ...ll the way across to America. He talked a heap of politics, and so did his officers, and when this Am- bassador Genet got rid of his land-stomach and ... ...s if the place belonged to him— and commanding all and sundry to fight the British. But I’d heard that before. I got into a long straight street as wi... ...air and a red blanket trailing behind him. A man told me he was a real Red Indian called Red Jacket, and I followed him into an alley-way off Race Str... ...Second Street, where there was a fiddle playing. I’m fond o’ fiddling. The Indian stopped at a baker’s shop—Conrad Gerhard’s it was—and bought some su... ...athered and shelled and beaded no bounds. I thought it was war against the British till I saw their faces weren’t painted, and they only carried wrist... ...avy to help them fight France, on pretence that those Americans was lawful British subjects. His gentlemen put this very clear to Big Hand. It didn’t ... ...shoes, and arrow-sheaves, and ale-barrels into the holds of the ships. The army only waited for our King to lead them against Robert in Normandy, but ...

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...ng country stretched away upon all sides. Locust trees and a single field of Indian corn gave it a foreign grace and interest; but the contours of the... ...n, in the horror and isolation of a plague. Old, red Manhattan lies, like an Indian arrowhead under a steam factory, below anglified New York. The nam... ...hemselves form a chorus of sweet and most romantic vocables: Delaware, Ohio, Indiana, Florida, Dakota, Iowa, Wyoming, Minnesota, and the Carolinas; th... ...nger and disgrace of Cali- fornia; and the holders are mostly of American or British birth. We have here in England no idea of the troubles and inconv... ...: a road conceived for pageantry and for triumphal marches, an avenue for an army; but, its days of glory over, it now lies grilling in the sun betwee... ...There were many works burnt at Alex- andria, there are many treasured in the British Museum, that I could better spare than the proces-verbal of Chati... ...our arrival, which we thought a strange thing in itself; but when one of the officers of the Pharos, passing narrowly by him, observed his book to be ... ...eath and decency that, for long months together, bedevil’ d and inspired the army; was hurled to and fro in the battle-smoke of the assault; was there... ...aggered. And of all this he had no more to say than “hot work, sir,” or “the army suffered a great deal, sir,” or “I be- lieve General Wilson, sir, wa...

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..., my sovereign appreciates them. If asked who was the brav- est man of the Indian army, there is not an officer belonging to it who would not cry at o... ...vereign appreciates them. If asked who was the brav- est man of the Indian army, there is not an officer belonging to it who would not cry at once, Ga... ...iving his letters from Benares—for his exclama- tion upon the death of the Indian chief—for his desire to marry his daughter: the woman I was wooing w... ...d a camp at Kanouge on the Jumna, where he exercised that brilliant little army which was speedily to perform such wonders in the Dooab. It will be as... ...r which was speedily to rage through some of the fair- est portions of the Indian continent. Shah Allum, the son of Shah Lollum, the descendant by the... ...ng rather as it appeared that they had any strength to fight a battle, the British Government, ever anxious to see its en- emies by the ears, by no me... ...rvice, and inflaming the minds of the various na- tive princes against the British East India Company. A number of these entered into Scindiah’s ranks... ...e entered into Scindiah’s ranks: one of them, Perron, was commander of his army; and though that chief was as yet quite engaged in his hereditary quar... ...y quarrel with Jeswunt Row Holkar, and never thought of an invasion of the British terri- tory, the Company all of a sudden discovered that Shah Allum...

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... was all in vain; and had I not come on board, and their own commander and officers with me, and with good words, and some threats also of giv- ing th... ...g an alarm by the noise. As they expected it fell out; three of the routed army fled for life, and crossing the creek, ran directly into the place, no... ... being discovered), they were surprised with seeing about twenty canoes of Indians just coming on shore. They made the best of their way home in hurry... ...that is killed for a dainty. The first thing they did was to cause the old Indian, Friday’ s father, to go in, and see first if he knew any of them, a... ...tory was this: Early one morning there came on shore five or six canoes of Indians or savages, call them which you please, and there is no room to dou... ...y had not gone far but that from a rising ground they could see the little army of their enemies come on directly to their habitation, and, in a mo- m... ...the number of two hun- dred and fifty, as near as our men could judge. Our army was but small indeed; but, that which was worse, they had not arms for... ...hem a plantation, he would give them a small stock to begin with – for the officers of the Inquisition had seized all his effects and estate, and he h... ... and above three thou- sand, if we left that sea, and went on west, to the British and French channels: we had full five thousand miles to the In- dia...

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...endence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea coasts, our army and our navy. These are not our reliance against tyranny All of those ... ... were desirous of regulating their own concerns in their own way, that the British Government should not interfere; that at one 50 The Writings of Ab... ...50 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five time they struggled with the British Government to be permit- ted to exclude the African slave trade,—if... ...dinance for the government of this country, here in Ohio, our neighbors in Indiana, us who live in Illinois, our neighbors in Wisconsin and Michigan. ... ... original States. The same process in a few years was gone through with in Indiana, and so with Illinois, and the same substantially with Michigan and... ...ent from the Confederation to the Constitution. Not only so, but I believe Indiana once or twice, if not Ohio, petitioned the Gen- eral Government for... ..., Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, was acquired first, I believe, by the British Gov- ernment, in part at least, from the French. Before the estab- ... ...ization which rallies around it. Y ou can scarcely scatter and disperse an army which has been formed into or- der in the face of your heaviest fire; ... ...your true friend and sincere well-wisher, A. LINCOLN. EARLY INFORMATION ON ARMY DEFECTION IN SOUTH TO D. HUNTER. (Private and Confidential.) SPRINGFIE...