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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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Rebellion Record: Introduction., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), Contents of Thie first volume. (search)
evolution,283 198.Exportation of Cotton — Confederate Act,292 198 1/2.Bishop A. Potter's Letter to a Secessionist,292 199.Gen. McClellan's Proclamation in Western Virginia,293 200.New Hampshire 1st Regiment,294 201.Judge Thompson's Proclamation at Wheeling,295 202.Col. Duryea's Proclamation at Hampton,296 203.New York Volunteers, 8th Regiment,296 204.Western Virginia--Advance of Federal Troops,296 204 1/2.Senator Douglas' Last Speech,298 205.Washington Artillery of New Orleans,300 206.New York Militia, 9th Regiment,301 207.Gen. Cadwallader and Judge Taney,301 208.Edw. Bates' Letters to J. M. Botts,304 209.New York and Georgia--Correspondence them home Tenderly, G. W. Bungay,50 68.Song of Columbia's Daughters, E. D. Wright,51 69.The Major and His Men,51 70.Our National Flag, E. S. Smith,51 71.Western Virginia--Sherrard Clemens,52 72.The Ballad of Cockey's Field,52 73.The Call for Volunteers, G. W. Bungay,53 74.The Departure, W. C. Richards,53 75.April 15, 1861
Rebellion Record: Introduction., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), Introduction. (search)
into which some of the disintegrated parts may crumble. The work of demons has already begun. Besides the hosts mustered for the capture or destruction of Washington, Eastern Virginia has let loose the dogs of war on the loyal citizens of Western Virginia; they are straining at the leash in Maryland and Kentucky; Tennessee threatens to set a price on the head of her noble Johnson and his friends; a civil war rages in Missouri. Why, in the name of Heaven, has not Western Virginia, separated fWestern Virginia, separated from Eastern Virginia by mountain ridges, by climate, by the course of her rivers, by the character of her population, and the nature of her industry, why has she not as good a right to stay in the Union which she inherited from her Washington, as Eastern Virginia has to abandon it for the mushroom Confederacy forced upon her from Montgomery? Are no rights sacred but those of rebellion; no oaths binding but those taken by men already foresworn; are liberty of thought, and speech, and action nowh