... Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six ORDER TAKING MILITARY POSSESSION OF RAILROADS. W AR DEPARTMENT, May 25, 1862. Ordered: By virtue of the authori... ...ted by act of Congress, the President takes military possession of all the railroads in the United States from and after this date until further order... ...on in the form of a trea- sonable provisional government at Montgomery, in Alabama on the 18th day of February, 1861. On the 12th day of April, 1861, ... ...rter. Nothing further from McClellan. If Porter effects a lodgment on both railroads near Hanover Court-House, consider whether your forces in front o... ... Fredericksburg railroad was not seized again, as you say you have all the railroads but the Richmond and Fredericksburg. I am puzzled to see how, lac... ... declare and proclaim that the States of South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennes- see, North Caroli... ...ssenger to him. A dispatch has this moment come from Halleck at Tuscombia, Alabama. A. LINCOLN. 89 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six ACT OF C... ...ommanders within the States of Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Missis- sippi, Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas in an orderly manner... ... St. Martin, and Orleans, including the city of New Orleans), Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia (ex...

... two hundred a month pocket-money , he told me. He isn’t sixteen either.” “Railroads, his father, aind’t it?” said the German. “Yep. That and mines an... ...e at San Diego, the old man has; another at Los Angeles; owns half a dozen railroads, half the lumber on the Pacific slope, and lets his wife spend th... ...long wearily from day to day . There was a war of rates among four Western railroads in which he was supposed to be interested; a devastating strike h... ...uld not please either city) Chicago and Boston are cheek by jowl, and some railroads encourage the delusion. The Limited whirled the “Constance” into ... ... West, Mr. Troop?” ‘Bin’ s fer ez Noo York once in a boat. I’ve no use for railroads. No more hez Dan. Salt water’ s good enough fer the Troops. I’ve ... ...t, per- suasion; but there is a difference between one Cape Breton and two Alabama negroes, and the matter was referred to Cheyne by the cook and port...

...er, Georgia ceded that which now constitutes the States of Mississippi and Alabama. In both deeds of cession it was made a condition by the ceding Sta... ...he execution thereof obstructed, in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too po... ...e United States has broken out in the States of South Carolina, Geor- gia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, and the laws of the Un... ...a blockade of the ports of the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Mis- sissippi, and Texas was ordered to be established:... ... generally suspended within the several States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Florida, excepting only those of the P... ...ttended to: 1. Let Manassas Junction (or some point on one or other of the railroads near it) and Strasburg be seized, and permanently held, with an o... ...rvation, one occupying Sedalia and the other Rolla, the present termini of railroads; then recruit the condition of both corps by re-establishing and ... ...d equipments, and pro- viding less uncomfortable quarters. Of course, both railroads must be guarded and kept open, judiciously employing just so much... ... can withdraw from these points and direct to others as may be needed, the railroads furnishing ready means of reinforcing these main points if occasi...

...n any of the States of Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina, a number of ... ...hundred and sixty-one, the ports of the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas were, for reasons there... ...eamer Keaysarge, which led to the total destruction of the piratical craft Alabama, on the 19th of June, 1864., a vessel superior in tonnage, superior... ... with military land war- rants, agricultural scrip certified to States for railroads, and sold for cash. The cash received from sales and location fe... ... the States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas were declared to be subject to b... ... of Savannah, St. Marys, and Brunswick (Darien), in Georgia; of Mobile, in Alabama; of Pearl River (Shieldsboro), Natchez and Vicksburg, in Mississipp...

...f Virginia have been the result. At that time there were no cotton fields. Alabama and 62 North America V ol. 2 Mississippi were outlying territories... ...r- ginia be saved, its position will be most unfortunate. I fancy that the railroads in those days must have been doing a very prosperous business. Fr... ... never paid a dollar of interest on the original outlay—of hotels, canals, railroads, banks, blocks of houses, etc. that never paid even in the happy ... ...that the supporters of Mr. Lincoln were very anxious about their ticket in Alabama, or those of Mr. Breckinridge as to theirs in Massachusetts. In Ala... ...olice and criminal regula- tions not external in their character—highways, railroads, canals, schools, colleges, the relief of paupers, and those thou... ...n would admit a hint that secession might ultimately prevail in Georgia or Alabama. But the rebels had been driven out of Missouri when I was leaving ...

...about, disputed, argued with as much warmth as if the subject were another Alabama claim. Some took sides with Phileas Fogg, but the large majority sh... ...s object must be an exciting one. I should not wonder if it were about the Alabama, despite the fact that that question is settled.” 119 Jules Verne ... ...CERTAIN INCIDENTS ARE NAR- RATED WHICH ARE ONLY TO BE MET WITH ON AMERICAN RAILROADS The train pursued its course, that evening, without inter- ruptio...

...ithered and blasted. The ever dreaded slave life in Georgia, Louisiana and Alabama—from which escape is next to impossible now, in my loneliness, star... ...the prison, and took me out, for the purpose, as he said, of sending me to Alabama, with a friend of his, who would emancipate me at the end of eight ... ...f the time indicated. Besides, I never had heard of his having a friend in Alabama, and I took the announcement, simply as an easy and comfortable met... ...emed every way proper for them to sell to others. I thought this friend in Alabama was an invention, to meet this difficulty, for Master Thomas was qu... ...credit. After lingering about St. Michael’s a few days, and no friend from Alabama making his appearance, to take me there, Master Thomas decided to s... ...he accommo- dation of colored travelers, was established on nearly all the railroads of New England, a dozen years ago. Regarding this custom as foste...

...gineering forces employed in the construc- tion of the American Canals and Railroads. The same, I say, because in all these cases the native American ... ...er come back. Black Little Pip—he never did—oh, no! he went be- fore. Poor Alabama boy! On the grim Pequod’s forecastle, ye shall ere long see him, be... ... likes of you; a whale would sell for thirty times what you would, Pip, in Alabama. Bear that in mind, and don’t jump any more.” Hereby perhaps Stubb ... ... in England, in Scotland, and in the States of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Among the more curi- ous of such remains is part of a skull, which... ...nct monster, found in the year 1842, on the plantation of Judge Creagh, in Alabama. The awe-stricken credulous slaves in the vicinity took it for the ... ...ves in the vicinity took it for the bones of one of the fallen angels. The Alabama doctors de- clared it a huge reptile, and bestowed upon it the name...

...gineer ing forces employed in the construction of the American Canals and Railroads. The same, I say, because in all these cases the native American ... ...ot very many of them ever come back. Black Little Pip — he never did! Poor Alabama boy! On the grim Pequod’s forecastle, ye shall ere long see him, be... ... likes of you; a whale would sell for thirty times what you would, Pip, in Alabama. Bear that in mind, and don’t jump any more.” Hereby perhaps Stubb ... ... in England, in Scotland, and in the States of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Among the more curious of such remains is part of a skull, which i... ...nct monster, found in the year 1842, on the plantation of Judge Creagh, in Alabama. The awe stricken credulous slaves in the vicinity took it for the ... ...ves in the vicinity took it for the bones of one of the fallen angels. The Alabama doctors declared it a huge reptile, and bestowed upon it the name o...

...rices in Chicago, but when we tried to get freight cars to ship there, the railroads wouldn’t let us have ‘em—even though they had cars standing empty... ...ations when there had been no railroad, and had no awe of it; but here the railroads had been before time was. The towns had been staked out on barren... ... studios in New York, in Kan- sas farmhouses, San Francisco drawing-rooms, Alabama schools for negroes. From them she got the same con- fused desire w... ...dvantages, so that the hills are covered with brush, the lakes shut off by railroads, and the creeks lined with dumping-grounds; of depressing sobriet... ... I’m going to ask Ezra Stowbody why he’s opposed to the nationalization of railroads, and ask Dave Dyer why a druggist always is pleased when he’s cal...

... while I was travelling through the forests which still cover the State of Alabama, I arrived one day at the log house of a pioneer. I did not wish to... ...*These nations are now swallowed up in the States of Geor- gia, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi. There were for- merly in the South four great nat... ...to clear, and return to their savage course of life. *In 1829 the State of Alabama divided the Creek territory into counties, and subjected the Indian... ...y the Northern States which are in possession of ship- ping, manufactures, railroads, and canals. This difference is perceptible not only in comparing... ...ressive, and unjust.” And the States of Georgia, Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi subsequently re- monstrated against it with more o... ...n five hundred leagues in extent which separates the two seas. The longest railroads which have been constructed up to the present time are in America... ...can vote who is not on the pauper list. Lastly, in the States of Missouri, Alabama, Illinois, Louisi- ana, Indiana, Kentucky, and V ermont, the condit...

...new little about him, except that he was the head of a school at Tuskegee, Alabama. I had occasion to write to him, and I addressed him as “The Rev. B... ... that would not have been complied with. When he was a guest at my home in Alabama, and was so badly paralyzed that he had to be wheeled about in an i... ... referred to the fact that he had received a letter from some gentlemen in Alabama asking him to recommend some one to take charge of what was to be a... ...d, much to my surprise, asked me if I thought I could fill the position in Alabama. I told him that I would be willing to try. Accordingly, he wrote t... ...lady held an umbrella over me while I ate breakfast. At the time I went to Alabama the coloured people were taking considerable interest in politics, ... ...es and labour wars, tilled your fields, cleared your forests, builded your railroads and cities, and brought forth treasures from the bowels of the ea...

...me. There were no telegraphs in those days to disseminate news rapidly, no railroads west of the Alleghanies, and but few east; and above all, there w... ...ent was established with Jefferson Davis as its President, and Montgomery, Alabama, as the Capital. The secessionists had then to leave the cabinet. I... ... in our hands we had a navigable stream open to us up to Muscle Shoals, in Alabama. The Memphis and Charleston Railroad strikes the Tennessee at Eastp... ... The enemy was in force at Corinth, the junction of the two most important railroads in the Mississippi valley—one con- necting Memphis and the Missis... ... constantly. Some of the men who had been engaged in various capacities on railroads before the war claimed that they could tell, by putting their ear... ...e north-west angle of the Mem- phis and Charleston and the Mobile and Ohio railroads, and were thus between the troops at Corinth and all possible rei... ...mmand at Holly Springs and much reinforced by con- scripts and troops from Alabama and Texas. The same day General Rosecrans was relieved from duty wi... ...he morning of the 21st we took the train for the front, reaching Stevenson Alabama, after dark. Rosecrans was there on his way north. He came into my ... ...ork of repair- ing roads and to move on with his whole force to Stevenson, Alabama, without delay. This order was borne to Sherman by a messenger, who...

... a wealthy planter, by the name of Fowler, who took him to his own home in Alabama. This illegal and fraudulent transaction had been per- petrated som... ...e. Solomon Gedney, meanwhile, consulted a lawyer, who advised him to go to Alabama and bring back the boy, otherwise it might cost him fourteen years’... ...ecreted himself till due preparations could be made, and soon set sail for Alabama. Steamboats and railroads had not then annihilated distance to the ... ... preparations could be made, and soon set sail for Alabama. Steamboats and railroads had not then annihilated distance to the extent they now have, an...

..., add to them, and cheerfully pass them forward. 11 As I have walk’d in Alabama my morning walk, I have seen where the she bird the mocking bird ... ...gen, Wait at Valparaiso, Rio Janeiro, Panama. 5 I see the tracks of the railroads of the earth, I see them in Great Britain, I see them in Europe... ...h the streets of the cities, polite and bland in the parlors, In the cars of railroads, in steamboats, in the public assembly, Home to the houses of m... ...peninsula—always the priceless delta of ouisiana—always the cotton fields of Alabama and Texas, Always California’s golden hills and hollows, and the ... ...actories, arsenals, foundries, markets, Shapes of the two threaded tracks of railroads, Shapes of the sleepers of bridges, vast frameworks, girders, a... ...fic, Populous cities, the latest inventions, the steamers on the rivers, the railroads, with many a thrifty farm, with machinery, And wool and wheat a... ...ass was growing, Up this seashore in some briers, T wo feather’d guests from Alabama, two together, And their nest, and four light green eggs spotted ... ...I heard at intervals the remaining one, the he bird, The solitary guest from Alabama. Blow! blow! blow! Blow up sea winds along Paumanok’s shore; I wa... ...o, the buckwheat of Michigan, to theirs; Gather the cotton in Mississippi or Alabama, dig and hoard the golden the sweet potato of Georgia and the Car...

...t at last effecting the ostensible object of the bill— the construction of railroads in the new States; and secondly, that Congress would be forced to... ...olina and Georgia owned, in separate parts, what are now Mis- sissippi and Alabama. Connecticut, I think, owned the little remaining part of Ohio, bei... ...his Territory then compris- ing what are now the States of Mississippi and Alabama. This was ten years before they had the authority to do the same th... ...is report been adopted, not only the North- west, but Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi also would have been free; but it required the ass... ...died and John Tyler succeeded to the Presi- dency, and William R. King, of Alabama, was elected act- ing Vice-President by the Senate; but no one supp...

...d, are easily defined. They are Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missis- sippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. The South wi... ...6,431 Arkansas 331,710 109,065 440,775 Mississippi 407,051 479,607 886,658 Alabama 520,444 435,473 955,917 Florida 81,885 63,809 145,694 Georgia 615,3... ...s, have begun by the erection of first class hotels and the fabrication of railroads. Let the Old World bid them God speed in their work. Only it woul... ...urrent expenses. It is in this way that the thousands of miles of American railroads have been opened; and here again must be seen the immense advanta... ... New Orleans or the mouth of the Mis- sissippi. The States of Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana have for some time past received much of their suppl... ... bent all in the same direction—as doubtless they were also in Georgia and Alabama. But here fathers were divided from sons, and mothers from daughter...

...et together and my fingers spread over my heart, I say, in the language of Alabama, “You do me proud.”) I stand guilty of the authorship of the articl... ...ng suicide in other forms. The Erie railroad kills 23 to 46; the other 845 railroads kill an average of one third of a man each; and the rest of that ... ...r beds! You will excuse me from taking any more chances on those beds. The railroads are good enough for me. And my advice to all people is, Don’t sta...