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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 244 2 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. 223 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 214 4 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 179 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 154 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 148 20 Browse Search
General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox 114 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 109 27 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 94 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 80 8 Browse Search
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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore), 58. Colonel Lewis Benedict. (search)
y's path, Where the fierce war-storm flashed its reddest wrath; Path proud, though rough; outrang the trumpet's blast: β€œTo arms, to arms! down to the dust is cast The flag, the dear old flag, by treason's hand!” And the deep thundering sound rolled onward through the land. In the quick throngs of fiery life that rushed To smite for native land till wrong was crushed And right stood planted firm upon its rock, None rose more glad, none bore the battle shock More brave. At blood-stained Williamsburgh he drew First his good sword; his eagle daring flew Into the storm so deep it wrapt him round; But, scorning still to yield, he strove, till bound Fast by the grasp of the admiring foe, Struggling though in the toil, still striking blow on blow. Pent in close prison-walls long, long black hours, Yet the strong, skyward-pinioned spirit cowers To naught; that steel-nerved will the loftier towers, Treading the painful thorns like pleasant flowers. Free once again, war's trumpet-clangors ri
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore), Adventures of a long-island girl. (search)
Adventures of a long-island girl. The Memphis (Tennessee) Times, of August fifth, 1864, tells this story of a woman's adventures; Miss Fanny Wilson is a native of Williamsburgh, Long Island. About four years ago, or one year prior to the war, she came West, visiting a relative who resided at La. Fayette, Indiana. While here her leisure moments were frequently employed in communicating, by affectionate epistles, with one to whom her heart had been given, and her hand had been promised, before leaving her native city β€” a young man from New-Jersey. After a residence of about one year with her Western relative, and just as the war was beginning to prove a reality, Fanny, in company with a certain Miss Nelly Graves, who had also come from the East, and there left a lover, set out upon her return to her home and family. While on their way thither, the two young ladies concocted a scheme, the romantic nature of which was doubtless its most attractive feature. The call for t