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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—Kentucky (search)
left the Confederate general crossing the Tennessee, above Chattanooga, on the 21st of August, at the head of about forty thousand men. An almost impenetrable barrier of rugged mountains separated him from the left of the Federals. Since the 19th of August the latter had got wind of his preparations for crossing that river, but were unable to ascertain on which side he would attack them. Thomas had correctly guessed his intentions, and on the 22d he notified his chief that the enemy was certaiernment. A little below the fort there stood at that time the village of New Ulm. These establishments were a tempting prey for the Sioux, who could not see without bitterness the prosperity of those settlers who had defrauded them. On the 19th of August the Indian warriors surprised at once both the agencies, where they massacred all the employes, and the village of New Ulm, where they ruthlessly put to death about one hundred women and children. Avoiding Fort Ridgely, they afterward retire
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book VII:—politics. (search)
notes, he again applied to the banks of New York, Boston and Philadelphia to aid him in this difficult operation. They subscribed for a sum of two hundred and fifty millions; the first third of these notes was to be delivered to them on the 19th of August, and the last on the 1st of December, on the condition that the government should not compete with them in re-selling this paper to the public. The difference between the date of the interest-bearing note and that of actual payment of the mow loan, like its predecessors, was issued in the form of government bonds bearing eight per cent. interest, redeemable at the end of twenty years at the latest, the government being privileged to dispose of it as it thought proper. The law of August 19th fixed the total amount of bonds to be issued at a par value of one hundred millions; and as thirty millions had previously been voted, this loan added seventy millions to the public debt. But the clause accounting the previous issues part of