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American Civil War : memories of incidents connected with the origin and culmination of the rebellion that threatened the existence of the national government : including reminiscences of the course of the rebel leaders in Congress and in the National Democratic convention which immediately proceeded the outburst of rebellion ; together with movement in and concerning the Army of the Potomac during the first two years of the war : including the proposition made in a speech at the Astor House, in New York, in November, 1861, when, in company with Simon Cameron ... General John Cochrane ... first publicly advocated the arming of the slaves in the war for the Union