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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1,788 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 514 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. 260 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 194 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 168 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore) 166 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition. 152 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. 150 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 132 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 122 0 Browse Search
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lay that motion on the table; which was agreed to. The bill was then lead a second time, and, on motion of Mr. Roscoe Conkling, referred to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, the rules requiring all bills making appropriations to be thus referred for consideration. The House then went into Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union on the Pacific Railroad bill. Mr. Phelps, (Cal.,) advocated it, regarding this means of connecting the Atlantic with the Pacific as not only important in a military, but also in an agricultural and commercial point of view. Mr. Keller, (Pa.,) argued that the time is peculiarly fitting for the commencement of this work, and our domestic exigencies demand its early completion. Until we shall have built this road, our country can never assume its just and commanding position among the nations of the world. He considered the subject in all its various aspects. The Committee then rose, and the House adjourned.
To be released. --The newspapers noticed the fact, a short time since, that a number of Tunkers (sometimes called Dunkards) had been arrested by the military authorities while endeavoring to escape from Rockingham county, in this State, to Pennsylvania. The persons alluded to, to the number of forty and odd, were duly brought to this city and placed in durance till their intentions could be ascertained. They are a singular people; profess to be German Baptists, and are really the descendants of Pennsylvania Dutchmen, who have settled in Virginia. They wear long beards, get up as patriarchal an appearance as circumstances will admit of, and profess to be non-combatants. This was the reason assigned by them for fleeing towards the enemy and from their old homes. We learn that twenty-five of these so called Tunkers, since their stay here, have signified a desire to join Col. Baldwin's regiment, which is composed mostly of citizens of Augusta and Rockingham. They have been releas