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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 370 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 46 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. 46 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. 30 0 Browse Search
L. P. Brockett, Women's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience 26 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore) 26 0 Browse Search
Mrs. John A. Logan, Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife: An Autobiography 22 0 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 8: Soldier Life and Secret Service. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 22 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 22 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 20 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: November 6, 1860., [Electronic resource], Interesting sketches. (search)
In June 1776 Virginia relinquished all claim to such of her original territory as had been taken away in the charters erecting the colonies of Maryland, Pennsylvania, North and South Carolina. Virginia had still a very extensive dominion. Spreading from the Atlantic to the Mississippi River, and stretching up that river to its source, her territory embraced, in addition to her present boundaries, what is now included in the States of Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin. In the revolutionary war this large domain created much jealousy and discontent among the other colonies. They complained that Virginia had greater interests dependent on the result than they, but only encountered equal perils; and they feared also that the small colonies would, after Independence was gained, be overshadowed and endangered by such preponderance of power in their neighbors. To relieve these discontents. Virginia, in 1781, generously yielded to the United States