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Title: The Civil War : the national view
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Thorpe, Francis Newton, 1857-1926
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Publisher: Philadelphia : George Barrie & Sons
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ashore,captured the rear guard with, twenty-two cannon and alarge quantity of stores. With the destruction of the Albemarle, the Confederacylost its last powerful war vessel in American waters. Itsdestruction was the result of daring not exceeded in theannals of the war. Wilmington and Savannah still remained to the Confed-eracy of the seven ports it held at the outbreak of the warand before these two lay the Union blockading fleet throughwhich many a Confederate runner, loaded with cotton,managed to escape. But the lines were drawing closer andcloser about Savannah and Wilmington. Only the highprice of cotton tempted the blockade-runners forth and theUnion fleet had captured or destroyed nearly all that ven-tured. A joint military and naval attack was made on FortFisher and Wilmington, in the fall of 1864: the commandof the fleet being given to Rear-Admiral D. D. Porter; thatof the troops to General Godfrey Weltzel. This expeditionfailed. In January, another expedition, under Porter,
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THE FOURTH YEAR OF THE WAR 437 co-operating with General Terry was undertaken: FortFisher was captured—with more than 2,000 prisoners andsixty-nine cannon. On February 22d, Wilmington was inpossession of General Schofield. Lincoln had freely expressed in his message to Congress,December, 1864, his willingness to bring the war to aclose by peaceful means—the insurgents to cease fightingand to declare their allegiance to the United States: themost generous terms that a Nation can olier to those inrebellion against its authority. The whole conduct of thegovernment had been merciful and indulgent. On Feb-ruary 14, 1862, through the secretary of war, a proclamationwas issued, directing that all political prisoners or Stateprisoners then held in military custody should be releasedon their subscribing to a parole engaging them to renderno aid or comfort to the enemies in hostility to the UnitedStates. On December 8, 1863, the president issued a proc-lamation of amnesty and reconstruction

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