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Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3 | 309 | 19 | Browse | Search |
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2 | 309 | 19 | Browse | Search |
General Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant | 170 | 20 | Browse | Search |
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary | 117 | 33 | Browse | Search |
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) | 65 | 11 | Browse | Search |
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative | 62 | 2 | Browse | Search |
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) | 36 | 2 | Browse | Search |
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . | 34 | 12 | Browse | Search |
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee | 29 | 3 | Browse | Search |
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) | 29 | 3 | Browse | Search |
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The Daily Dispatch: May 13, 1862., [Electronic resource], Set to work. (search)
Set to work.
--The Mayor yesterday ordered the jailor of the city to put Jim butler, a vagrant free negro, to work as a member of the chain gang for thirty days, eight hours per day. Butler was taken up a few days since for some petty delinquency.
The disposition made of him is admirable, and it is only a pity that, if the law allows it, a similar disposition is not made of the many healthy, strong, and abandoned white men who now roam the streets of Richmond, seeking, like the lion of old, "whom they may devour."