Personal Memoirs of P.H. Sheridan: General United States Army : in Two Volumes, Band 2Charles L. Webster, 1888 |
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Appomattox army arrived artillery attack Averell battalion Battery battle Bismarck Boydton Brigadier-General camp campaign Captain capture cavalry Cedar Creek City Point Colonel column command Confederate Court House Crook crossing Custer despatch Devin Dinwiddie directed dismounted division Early Early's enemy enemy's eral Fifth Corps FIFTH MILITARY DISTRICT fight Fisher's Hill Five Forks force Forsyth French front Front Royal George George Crook German Getty's Grant Gravelly Run ground halted headquarters horses Hundred Indians infantry James James River canal join Lee's Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel Lieutenant-Colonel John Lieutenant-Colonel William Lynchburg Major-General Merritt miles military morning mounted move night Nineteenth Corps o'clock officers Ohio Orleans P. H. SHERIDAN Pennsylvania Petersburg Pickett prisoners railroad reached rear River rode Rosser scouts SECOND BRIGADE sent Shenandoah Sixth Corps tion Torbert troops Valley pike village wagons Warren West Virginia White Oak road Winchester York
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Seite 239 - That it shall be the duty of each officer assigned as aforesaid to protect all persons in their rights of person and property, to suppress insurrection, disorder, and violence, and to punish, or cause to be punished, all disturbers of the public peace and criminals...
Seite 244 - An Act to prescribe an oath of office : " Provided, That if any person shall knowingly and falsely take and subscribe any oath in this act prescribed, such person so offending and being thereof duly convicted shall be subject to the pains, penalties, and disabilities which by law are provided for the punishment of the crime of wilful and corrupt perjury. SEC.
Seite 240 - That no person excluded from the privilege of holding office by said proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States, shall be eligible to election as a member of the convention to frame a constitution for any of said rebel States, nor shall any such person vote for members of such convention.
Seite 241 - June 30, 1868, and for other purposes," approved March 2, 1867, and also to prevent the execution of an act entitled "An act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States...
Seite 239 - That all persons put under military arrest by virtue of this act shall be tried without unnecessary delay, and no cruel or unusual punishment shall be inflicted, and no sentence of any military commission or tribunal hereby authorized, affecting the life or liberty of any person, shall be executed until it is approved by the officer in command of the district, and the laws and regulations for the government of the army shall not be affected by this act, except in so far as they conflict with its...
Seite 242 - State legislature, nor held any executive or judicial office in any State and afterwards engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof...
Seite 392 - Not having been able to die in the midst of my troops, there is nothing left me but to place my sword in your Majesty's hands.
Seite 240 - Congress for examination and approval, and Congress shall have approved the same; and when said State, by a vote of its legislature elected under said constitution, shall have adopted the amendment to the Constitution ot the United States proposed by the Thirty-ninth Congress, and known as article fourteen; and when said article shall have become a part of the Constitution of the United States, said State shall be declared entitled to representation in Congress...
Seite 61 - GENERAL : I enclose you despatch which explains itself. [See copy following.] If the enemy should be strongly re-enforced in cavalry, he might, by turning our right, give us a great deal of trouble. I shall hold on here until the enemy's movements are developed, and shall only fear an attack on my right, which I shall make every preparation for guarding against and resisting.
Seite 239 - ... allow local civil tribunals to take jurisdiction of and to try offenders, or, when in his judgment it may be necessary for the trial of offenders, he shall have power to organize military commissions or tribunals for that purpose, and all interference under color of State authority with the exercise of military authority under this act, shall be null and void.