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Title: The new eclectic history of the United States
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Thalheimer, M(ary) E(lsie) (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Cincinnati and New York, Van Antwerp, Bragg and co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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inert the question whether I would take part against my nativeState. With all my devotion to the Lnion, and the feeling of loyalty and dutyof an American citizen, I have not been able to make up my mind to raise myhand against my relatives, my children, and my home. During the fust year ofthe war Lee was kept in the background ; but on his appointment as commander-in-chief, in 1862, new life was infused into the armies under him, and that energywhich never flagged to the bitter end began to make itself felt. Although out-numbered, he kept up the unequal fight for three- years, and usually inflicted farheavier losses than he received. Tin-war Kit him homeless and penniless, andhe gladly accepted the presidency of the Washington and Lee University, atLexington, Va. Here, after a quiet, useful life of live years, he died. It isworthy of record that during these last years he used all his influence, in a quietway, to remove the bitter sectional feelings induced bj the war. V. _;•■■-
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(s&*&& A CONFERENCE BETWEEN THE LINES. CHAPTER XXXVIII. NINETEENTH TERM EVENTS OF I 863. Abraham Lincoln, President. Hannibal Hamlin, lice-President. 529. The year 1863 opened with thegreatest event of the war. Until July of1862 the President had acted upon hisdeclared intention to leave slavery un-molested in the States where it ex-isted, though pledged to preventits extension into new Statesand Territories. GeneralButler had indeed confis-cated the negroes whomhe found employed uponthe Confederate earth-works near Fortress Mon-roe, and they had been fedand protected as Union refugees.But when Fremont, in Missouri, Freeing the Slaves and other generals, had undertaken to free the slaves of thosewho were fighting against the government, the President haddisapproved and reversed their action. 530. The South, on the other hand, had declared one chiefobject of secession to be the founding of a republic, of whichAfrican slavery should be the corner-stone. If the war wasever to

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