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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 356 34 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 236 0 Browse Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 188 0 Browse Search
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2 126 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 101 11 Browse Search
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1 76 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 46 0 Browse Search
Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States. 44 0 Browse Search
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2 26 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 25 1 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: September 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], Camp life in Texas--a Queer case of cholera. (search)
ing a cost at that point of $5.91. Yet the people who have flour on the spot are allowed only $3.85. It will not do to say that Richmond flour is worth in ordinary years one dollar more than country flour, for the flour of Richmond manufacture is worth the additional dollar only on account of its qualities as a shipping flour for the transit across the equator. But no flour now has a shipping value, because none can be shipped. If Richmond flour could be shipped to Rio Janeiro and San Francisco, it would be worth $6.25 a barrel, not $5.25. To knock off the value given by its shipping quality, when it cannot be shipped, is palpably absurd. Nine-tenths of the country superfine flour is as good for domestic consumption as Richmond superfine flour. it is, therefore, unjust to knock off a dollar per barrel on the flour, or twenty cents per bushel on the wheat, on a hypothesis which supposes open ports, the usual shipments to South America, and which totally ignores the existence o