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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore) 14 0 Browse Search
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 5. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 12 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 II. 12 2 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 11 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: April 15, 1862., [Electronic resource] 10 2 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 10 0 Browse Search
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade) 9 1 Browse Search
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 6. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 8 0 Browse Search
L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion 8 0 Browse Search
James Russell Lowell, Among my books 8 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: may 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], Affairs at Cairo. (search)
Affairs at Cairo. --Intelligence from Cairo to the 4th inst., is to the effect that 6,500 Federal troops were stationed at that point. On the same day a citizen of Cairo, named Burns, shot one of the soldiers, named George Myra, for insulting his wife. Myra received two shots, and died almost instantly. He was from near Springfield, Ill. No arrests were made, as Burns was in the right. Affairs at Cairo. --Intelligence from Cairo to the 4th inst., is to the effect that 6,500 Federal troops were stationed at that point. On the same day a citizen of Cairo, named Burns, shot one of the soldiers, named George Myra, for insulting his wife. Myra received two shots, and died almost instantly. He was from near Springfield, Ill. No arrests were made, as Burns was in the right.