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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1,468 0 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1,286 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 656 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. 566 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 440 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 416 0 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 360 0 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 298 0 Browse Search
A Roster of General Officers , Heads of Departments, Senators, Representatives , Military Organizations, &c., &c., in Confederate Service during the War between the States. (ed. Charles C. Jones, Jr. Late Lieut. Colonel of Artillery, C. S. A.) 298 0 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 272 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: August 19, 1862., [Electronic resource], House of Representatives. (search)
of Ga., offered a bill making Treasury notes a legal tender in payment of debts, and moved that it be referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, with instructions to report at an early day. The bill was so referred. Also, a resolution that the Committee on Military Affairs be instructed to inquire into the expediency and necessity of requiring the Commissary Department of the Army to furnish more and better food for the soldiers. Referred to Military Committee. Mr. Miles, of S. C., introduced a bill to provide further for the pubic defence — extending the provisions of the Conscript act to all persons between the ages of 35 and 45 years. Read and referred to Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a bill to provide for the punishment of slaves taken in arms against the Confederate States, and all white men assuming to be commandants of the same. Referred. Mr. Foote, of Tenn., introduced a bill to provide for retaliatory punishment in certain cases. Bill read at
The Daily Dispatch: August 19, 1862., [Electronic resource], The law of retaliation. (search)
henticated. Newspapers received from the United States announce as a fact that Major-General Hunter has armed slaves for the murder of their masters, and has thus done all in his power to inaugurate a servile war, which is more than that of the savage, inasmuch as it superadds other horrors to the indiscriminate slaughter of all ages, sexes, and conditions. Brigadier-General Philos is reported to have initiated in New Orleans the example set by Major- General Hunter on the coast of South Carolina. Brigadier General G. N. Fitch is stated in the same journals to have murdered, in cold blood, two peaceful citizens because one of his men, while invading our country, was killed by some unknown person while defending his home. I am instructed by the President of the Confederate States to repeat the inquiry relative to the cases of Mumford and Owens, and to ask whether the statements in relation to the action of Generals Hunter, Phelps, and Fitch are admitted to be true, and whethe
The Daily Dispatch: August 19, 1862., [Electronic resource], Later from the North. (search)
Later from the North. We have received Northern papers of the 16th instant. On the night of the 13th inst., the steamer West Point, with 221 convalescent troops from New port News, for Burnside's army, was run into at Aquia Creek by the steamer George Peabody, Capt. Travers, and sank in ten minutes. Seventy-three lives were lost, including the wives of Major Dort, Lieut. Col. Scott and Capt. Cummings, of the 6th N. H. regiment. The negro brigade of General Hunter, at Belton Head. S. C., has been disbanded, as "the negroes could not be made soldiers." A large number of Yankees are going over the Canada line and taking the oath of allegiance to the British Government, to avoid being drafted. In Washington, on the 14th Lincoln addressed a delegation of "colored men," who waited on him by invitation, to "talk over" the subject of emancipation. His address is reported in two columns of the New York Herald, and includes two verses of poetry! Gen. Pope in his official report of t