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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 272 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 122 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. 100 0 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 90 0 Browse Search
Elias Nason, McClellan's Own Story: the war for the union, the soldiers who fought it, the civilians who directed it, and his relations to them. 84 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. 82 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 82 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 74 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 70 0 Browse Search
John G. Nicolay, The Outbreak of Rebellion 70 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: August 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], Five dollars reward (search)
th, would make an aggregate much larger than the Northern papers have yet admitted. The movements of Gen. Lee in Western Virginia seem to be conducted cautiously, yet skillfully; and though nothing is accurately known, it is confidently believed mand. It appears from an article in the Cincinnati Commercial that General Rosencranz, the Federal commander in Western Virginia, is likely to meet with poor success in his call for troops from Cincinnati. A correspondent of that paper writing will assent that his demonstration is sufficiently formidable, and admonishes the country that the next campaign in Western Virginia will not be a trifling expedition. No intelligent military man apprehends defeat of our army; but it is within the be guarded against by every possible precaution. What would be the consequence of our defeat? Overthrow of the Western Virginia Provisional Government; exile of the Union citizens and confiscation of their property, or the conversion of indiffe
The Daily Dispatch: August 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], $100 reward (search)
elieve it has heretofore been about 2,500,000 bushels a year. It is certainly very large, and from this source alone could the remaining 500,000 bushels of the deficiency of supply caused by the blockade be obtained for the South. Thus Western Virginia alone can supply the whole deficiency of the salt supply of the South, provided only adequate steps be taken to hold possession of the Kanawha Valley.--This single object alone is worth a costly military expedition, and yet, unfortunately, this is the very portion of Western Virginia that has been most neglected. The recapture of the dreary country penetrated by McClellan and Roscencranz is of secondary importance. But the possession of the rich and beautiful Valley of the Kanawha, with its prolific Saline, which has been overrun by Cox, is of primary importance. No portion of the State of equal extent is half so important, and we look with great interest to the operations of Generals Floyd and Wise. True, the salt of Kana