History of the First Reg't Pennsylvania Reserve Cavalry —— From Its Organization, August, 1861, to September, 1864, With a List of Names of All Officers and Enlisted Men Who Have Ever Belonged to the Regiment, and Remarks Attached to Each Name, Noting Change, &C

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ISBN: 9781331254652 出版年：2016 页码：214 George D Bayard Owen Jones Forgotten Books

As day after day of the new year passed, events stranger and more startling were developed, and thus matters continued growing more desperate until the fourth of March, when a new Chief Executive was inaugurated and the reins of Government passed into the hands of another Administration but, instead Of these events having any effect in allaying the angry and discordant elements, the storm-cloud Of civil commotion grew rapidly darker and more threat cuing. The warlike preparations of the South now too began to arouse the loyal people Of the nation to the stern fact that treason, real earnest treason, was rap idly spreading its contaminating bane over large tracts of the nation's territory, rife for any deed, and ready in its daring audacity to attempt any crime, and that rebellion in gigantic proportion was upon them.