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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 10 0 Browse Search
A. J. Bennett, private , First Massachusetts Light Battery, The story of the First Massachusetts Light Battery , attached to the Sixth Army Corps : glance at events in the armies of the Potomac and Shenandoah, from the summer of 1861 to the autumn of 1864. 4 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 4 0 Browse Search
Mrs. John A. Logan, Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife: An Autobiography 4 0 Browse Search
John D. Billings, The history of the Tenth Massachusetts battery of light artillery in the war of the rebellion 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Condensed history of regiments. 3 1 Browse Search
Thomas C. DeLeon, Four years in Rebel capitals: an inside view of life in the southern confederacy, from birth to death. 2 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 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: September 7, 1864., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 0 Browse Search
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kets, buildings, &c., furnish favorable places for cover, and at the same time enable you to kill the marauders. Recollect, if they come it is to plunder, destroy and burn your property. D. N. Couch, Major-General Commanding Department. An Emeute in Washington. The negro is not only put forward to be slaughtered at Petersburg, but the Yankees kill him if he stays peaceably at home in Washington. A telegram from that city says: There was quite an extensive riot on Capitol Hill this afternoon, some twenty or thirty soldiers from the Lincoln Hospital attacking a number of colored men. For a time the affair threatened to be serious, stones, brickbats and crowbars being extensively used. Finally, a colored man got an axe and made an assault upon the soldiers, killing one, and wounding another, it is believed, mortally. The soldiers finally set fire to the shanties, and some half dozen of them were burned. The police at last succeeded in quelling the riot, and ma