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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 7 3 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir 6 0 Browse Search
Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House 4 2 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: June 7, 1862., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 4 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: April 18, 1864., [Electronic resource] 4 4 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Index, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 3 1 Browse Search
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 2 0 Browse Search
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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book I:—the war on the Rapidan. (search)
ry close to the city. This bay has a length of not less than four miles; and, although the surrounding shores are far apart, at some points more than two miles and a half, the navigable portion has a width of only one mile and a quarter; it becomes still narrower south of Castle Pinckney in consequence of a sandbank which, under the name of Middle Ground, divides it into two unequal passes, the widest of which is at the south. At the upper end of the bay, at the junction of the two rivers, Ashley and Cooper, which empty their waters into it, stands the city of Charleston, once rich and prosperous, but now existing only for the war and through the war. Her wharves were no longer frequented except by blockade-runners, which chiefly brought her arms and ammunition, and whose arrivals the increase of the Federal fleet had for some time rendered much more rare. Too far from the entrance to be reached by the projectiles of the enemy, she was near enough for her inhabitants to see the stru