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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book V:—Tennessee. (search)
had also been drilled, and the new regiments had been, as far as possible, brigaded with soldiers already broken in to war. His army numbered forty-six thousand combatants, comprising forty-one thousand four hundred and twenty-one infantry, two thousand two hundred and twenty-three artillerists with one hundred and fifty guns, and three thousand two hundred and sixty-six cavalry. It was divided, as we have said, into three corps, under Crittenden, Thomas and McCook. On the morning of December 26th, which was cold and rainy, this army emerged at last from its inaction. In forcing this apparent inaction upon it, Rosecrans had not only given it time to recover strength, but he had drawn Bragg toward him, and was now able to attack him without exposing his army to the immense difficulties it would have had to encounter in a long wintermarch beyond Nashville. In order to be able to advance as far as Chattanooga in the spring, it was necessary to fight the enemy's army first; and wha
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book VII:—politics. (search)
of which was so obnoxious to the people of the North. But this law could not be directly attacked without seriously compromising the loyalty of the border States, which, although slave States, had not broken the Federal compact, and whose hostility would have been fatal to the cause of the Union. Consequently, after some fruitless debates upon propositions which were too radical to be adopted at that time, the House of Representatives and the Senate merely instructed, on the 20th and 26th of December, their respective judiciary committees to prepare modifications of the law so as to require the owner of the fugitive slave to produce evidence of his loyalty to the Federal government prior to its being applied. The Senate passed, moreover, a resolution ratifying the decisions of the government, and declaring that it was not the province of the military to interfere in restoring slaves to their masters. The law upon this point was definitely settled. Thus ended the year 1861. Th