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James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley 46 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: August 26, 1861., [Electronic resource] 12 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: September 24, 1861., [Electronic resource] 10 0 Browse Search
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade) 10 0 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1 10 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 8 0 Browse Search
William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune 7 1 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 4 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 4 0 Browse Search
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Brigadier Webb. It must be a subject of profound regret to the North, that James Watson Webb, Brigadier General, &c., has deprived the United States of his servJames Watson Webb, Brigadier General, &c., has deprived the United States of his services at this critical juncture, by accepting a foreign mission. We can imagine that he was sadly missed at the battle of Manassas,--in that crushing slaughter and t his angle horn Ware worth a thousand men." When we recall to mind how Webb used to flourish his avenging sword in mid-heaven, and how he swore that the "NeSouth," we cannot be thankful enough that the Seventh declined the job, and that Webb was not in this country to lead their invincible march. But let us not exult too soon. Perhaps when Webb, at a foreign court, hears the result of the battle of Manassas, he will fling aside his diplomatic commission, and persuading the Europeanhe combined power of wind, steam and gas can propel his powerful presence. When Webb appears, bludgeon in hand, on the Long Bridge at Washington, let the South stand