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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2 1,234 1,234 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 423 423 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died. 302 302 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 282 282 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 181 181 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 156 156 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 148 148 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 33. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 98 98 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Condensed history of regiments. 93 93 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 88 88 Browse Search
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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 31: (search)
. But, in consequence of the danger of capture by our cruisers to which these ships were exposed, the amount of this commerce carried by them had dwindled down in 1864 to forty-six per cent. It continued to decline after the war, and in 1872 it had fallen to twenty-eight and a half per cent. Before the war the amount of Americting with her for the first place. At that time the tonnage of the coasting trade, which had grown from insignificance, was 1,735,863 tons. Three years later, in 1864, it had declined to about 867,931 tons. The damage to the articles of export is illustrated by the decline in breadstuffs exported from the Northern states. In the last four months of each of the following years the value of this export was as follows: 1861, $42,500,000; 1862, $27,842,090; 1863, $8,909,042; 1864, $1,--850,819. Some of this decline resulted from good crops in England; in other respects, it was a consequence of causes growing out of the war. The increase in the rates
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 32: (search)
vernment. Two persons were chosen and admitted to seats in that body. That portion of the state in the possession of the forces of the United States continued without change, under the authority of the military governor, until the beginning of 1864. Measures were then commenced by the governor for an organization of a state government in sympathy with the government of the United States. These measures were subsequently known as the process for State reconstruction. The governor issued hiople in the accomplishment of these results. Thus to invoke the Constitution was like Satan quoting Scripture. The election was a failure, and all further efforts at reconstruction were for a time suspended. An attempt was made at the end of 1864 to obtain a socalled convention to amend the state constitution, and a body was assembled which, without any regular authority, adopted amendments. These were submitted to the voters on February 22, 1865, and declared to be ratified by a vote of
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 44: (search)
lty person was arrested in two or three days after the appearance of the proclamation, and imprisoned in Fort Lafayette; the newspaper and telegraph offices were restored to the owners, and the publications resumed. But the government of New York never obtained any indemnification of these losses by its citizens. Another subversion of the state government was brought about by the military interference on the part of the government of the United States with the state election. This was in 1864, when President Lincoln and General McClellan were the candidates for the presidency of the United States. As usual in all these cases, proceedings to work up a pretended necessity for interference on the part of the United States government were commenced by the appearance of a grandiloquent proclamation from the commanding general, Dix, telling what horrible designs, there was reason to believe, the agents of the Confederate States in Canada had prepared to be executed on election day, by
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 47: (search)
of General Early retaliation on Chambersburg, Pennsylvania battle near Winchester Sheridan's forces routed attack subsequently renewed with New forces incapacity of our opponent Early Falls back the enemy Retires Early advances report of a Committee of citizens on losses by Sheridan's orders battle at Cedar Creek losses, subsequent movements, and captures the Red River campaign repulse and retreat of General Banks capture of Fort Pillow. Before the opening of the campaign of 1864, the lower Shenandoah Valley was held by a force under General Sigel, with which General Grant decided to renew the attempt which had been made by Crook and Averill to destroy the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad west of Lynchburg as a means to his general purpose of isolating Richmond; a prompt movement of General Morgan had defeated those attempts and driven off the invaders. Sigel, with about fifteen thousand men, commenced his movement up the valley of the Shenandoah. Major General Brecki
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 49: (search)
terward made were the results of special agreements. The wish of the Confederate government, which it was hoped had been accomplished by the cartel, was the prompt release of all prisoners on both sides, either by exchange or parole. When, in 1864, the cartel was so disregarded by the enemy as to indicate that prisoners would be held long in confinement, Andersonville in Georgia was selected for the location of a principal prison. The site was chosen because of its supposed security from rand November in sending vessels for the transportation of sick and wounded, for whom no equivalents were asked? Were Federal prisoners left to suffer, and afterward photographed to aid in firing the popular heart of the North? In the summer of 1864, in consequence of certain information communicated to Commissioner Ould by the Surgeon General of the Confederate States, as to the deficiency of medicines, Ould offered to make purchases of medicines from the United States authorities, to be use
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 50: (search)
views, that it was out of the power of the Confederate government to act on the subject of the domestic institutions of the several states, each state having exclusive jurisdiction on that point, still less to commit the decision of such a question to the vote of a foreign people. Having no dispositions to discuss questions of state with such persons, especially as they bore no credentials, I terminated the interview, and they withdrew with Benjamin. The opening of the spring campaign of 1864 was deemed a favorable conjuncture for the employment of the resources of diplomacy. To approach the government of the United States directly would have been in vain. Repeated efforts had already demonstrated its inflexible purpose—not to negotiate with the Confederate authorities. Political developments at the North, however, favored the adoption of some action that might influence popular sentiment in the hostile section. The aspect of the peace party was quite encouraging, and it seem
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 52: (search)
him an opportunity to attack a force the number of which should not greatly exceed his own, finally made a junction with General Johnston, then opposing Sherman's advance through North Carolina. The fixed purpose of General Grant's campaign of 1864 was the capture of Richmond, the Confederate capital. For this he had assembled the large army with which he crossed the Rapidan and fought the numerous battles between there and the James River. For this he had moved against Petersburg, the cap superiority of Grant's army might well have induced him to invite Lee to meet him in the open field. He did, however, neither the one nor the other, but something of both. In the opening of the campaign of 1865 he continued, as he had done in 1864, to extend his line to the left, seeking, after having gained the Weldon Railroad, to reach still farther to that connecting Petersburg with Richmond and Danville Railroad. Lee, with a well-deserved confidence in his troops and his usual intrepid