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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing)	61	1	Browse	Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight)	20	0	Browse	Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register	16	0	Browse	Search
Rev. James K. Ewer , Company 3, Third Mass. Cav., Roster of the Third Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment in the war for the Union	16	0	Browse	Search
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States	14	0	Browse	Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition.	14	0	Browse	Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company)	12	0	Browse	Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1	12	0	Browse	Search
The Daily Dispatch: January 24, 1861., [Electronic resource]	12	0	Browse	Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2	10	0	Browse	Search
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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 1: early recollections of California. 1846-1848. (search)

gold in general use, and to pay for the same out of the money in his hands known as the civil fund, arising from duties collected at the several ports in California. He consented to this, and Captain Folsom bought an oyster-can full at ten dollars the ounce, which was the rate of value at which it was then received at the custom-house. Folsom was instructed further to contract with some vessel to carry the messenger to South America, where he could take the English steamers as far east as Jamaica, with a conditional charter giving increased payment if the vessel could catch the October steamer. Folsom chartered the bark La Lambayecana, owned and navigated by Henry D. Cooke, who has since been the Governor of the District of Columbia. In due time this vessel reached Monterey, and Lieutenant Loeser, with his report and specimens of gold, embarked and sailed. He reached the South American Continent at Payta, Peru, in time, took the English steamer of October to Panama, and thence we

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