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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 388 2 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 347 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died. 217 51 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 164 0 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 153 1 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. 146 0 Browse Search
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 132 0 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 128 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1. 128 0 Browse Search
Jubal Anderson Early, Ruth Hairston Early, Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early , C. S. A. 122 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: September 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], The New York Herald upon the Situation. (search)
med, have not taken very well of late. The country is called on to look out for great things from the energy of McClellan. "Henceforth if we cannot count on victory, we can at least reckon on the avoidance of such humiliations as the affairs of Bull Run and Big Bethel brought on our arms." This means, we presume, that when the Yankees are whipped again they are determined not to throw away their guns, knapsacks, haversacks, shoes and blankets. The Herald then tells us that in April, eightyether you cannot get an opportunity. When our men drive you from the next height, do not run into shelter like the genuine heroes of Ball Run, but support your advanced guard with your whole force. Send on your man McClellan, if you really mean for him to advance. Cease swaggering and lying, and turn to fighting, if you do not wish to retain among the nations the reputation which you earned at Bull Run — that of the most arrant poltroons that ever hid a lily liver under a bullying exterior.
The Daily Dispatch: September 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], The New York Herald upon the Situation. (search)
rely useless for any purposes of the war. Surely the use of so magnificent a sheet of water as the Potomac, and the utilizing of so valuable a navy-yard as that of Washington, is worthy of a battle. Their papers for nearly two months have teemed with praises of McClellan, and with bints of his admirable preparations for another "onward movement." Our own Generals have come out from amongst those treacherous "masked batteries" which are supposed to have cost the Yankees the disaster at Bull Run, and now stand in the open field ready to fight on terms the equality of which cannot be disputed; yet, with all their heralded preparations for great achievement, and all these inducements to fight, they crouch within their entrenchments, permitting us to have our own way outside of them. There can be but one explanation of their conduct, and that is, that they neither dare nor are prepared to offer us battle. The soul of the Yankee is cowered, and his Generals are afraid to trust hi