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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 2: Lee's invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania. (search)
ime Bmployed.rate of Wages.amount for each Slave.amount received.signatures. J. G. Woodfire.William, laborer.22 days.$16 a month. $13 33Joseph G. Woodfire. William E. Martin.Richard, laborer.37 days.$16 a month.$19 75   William E. Martin.Henry, laborer.37 days.$16 a month.19 7589 46W. E. Martin. I certify the above pay-rollWilliam E. Martin.Henry, laborer.37 days.$16 a month.19 7589 46W. E. Martin. I certify the above pay-roll is correct and just, John B. Stannard. The above was copied from one of several in possession of the writer, taken from hundreds found in Richmond after the evacuation, and showing that thousands of slaves were employed on the fortifications in different. parts of the Confederacy. all able leaders, and each bearing the commiW. E. Martin. I certify the above pay-roll is correct and just, John B. Stannard. The above was copied from one of several in possession of the writer, taken from hundreds found in Richmond after the evacuation, and showing that thousands of slaves were employed on the fortifications in different. parts of the Confederacy. all able leaders, and each bearing the commission of Lieutenant-General. Recent events had greatly inspirited the Confederates, and given a buoyant tone to the feelings of the army. Richmond seemed secure from harm for at least a year to come. Its prisons (especially the Libby, which became both famous and infamous during the war) were crowded with captives. Charlesto
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 5: the Chattanooga campaign.--movements of Sherman's and Burnside's forces. (search)
Grant's electrograph from Louisville, October 19, 1863. Hold Chattanooga at all hazards, saying, I will hold the town until we starve; yet it was not prudent to risk such disaster by inaction, for already Bragg's cavalry had been raiding over the region north of the Tennessee River, destroying supplies, and threatening a total obstruction of all communications between Chattanooga and Middle Tennessee. On the 30th of September, a greater portion of Bragg's horsemen (the brigades of Wharton, Martin, Davidson, and Anderson), about four thousand strong, under Wheeler, his chief of cavalry, crossed the Tennessee, between Chattanooga and Bridgeport, pushed up the Sequatchie Valley, fell upon a National supply-train Oct. 2. of nearly one thousand wagons on its way to Chattanooga, near Anderson's cross-roads, and burned it before two regiments of cavalry, under Colonel Edward M. McCook, which had been sent from Bridgeport in pursuit, could overtake them. Wheeler's destructive work was just