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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., chapter 35 (search)
was asleep in two barns, with no pickets out save northward, when, during the night of the 18th, they were surprised by a Rebel force from the southward, under Col. O'Kane, and utterly routed — being unable to offer any serious resistance. Capt. Cook and a portion of his followers barely escaped with their lives It seems to be pretty well agreed that Cook's men were about 400 in number: but he reported that he was attacked by 1,200, while Pollard makes O'Kane's force only 350. Cook's account makes his loss 23 killed, 20 wounded, and 30 prisoners; while Pollard says we lost 206 killed, a large number wounded, and over 100 taken prisoners; while the Rebred 362 muskets. Such are the materials out of which History is necessarily distilled. Pollard is probably the nearer right in this case. Jackson, reenforced by O'Kane, halted two days at Warsaw, then continued his retreat some fifty miles to Montevallo, in Vernon County, near the west line of the State, and was here joined on t
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., Analytical Index. (search)
m, 21. O. Oats, annual product of, by 8th U. S. Census, 22. Ochiltree, Judge W. B., of Texas, 339. Odell, Mr., 537-8. Oglethorpe, James, his early history, and settlement of Georgia, 31; his opposition to Slavery and the use of ruin; his integrity, etc., 32. Ohio, becomes a State in 1803, 52; diminished Republican majority in, 300; Republican majority swelled in, 301; pledges assistance to the Kentucky Unionists, 495. Ohio Statesman, The, on the President's call, 457. O'Kane, Col., (Rebel,) surprises Camp Cole, 575. Oldham, Wm. S., sent by Davis to Arkansas, 486. Oliver, Mordecai, 241; chosen Secretary of State in Missouri, 576. Ord, Gen., commands, at Dranesville, 625-6. Ordinance of 1784, the, 39; 50. Ordinance of 1787, the, passage of, and an extract from, 40; 50; allusion to, 369. Ordinance of Nullification, the, 93. Oregon, congressional action upon the Territory of, 190 to 198; has a Democratic majority, 300; 801. Orr, James L., of