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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 162 162 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 119 119 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 25 25 Browse Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 23 23 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 21 21 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Condensed history of regiments. 20 20 Browse Search
The Atlanta (Georgia) Campaign: May 1 - September 8, 1864., Part I: General Report. (ed. Maj. George B. Davis, Mr. Leslie J. Perry, Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley) 20 20 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 18 18 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 18 18 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Irene E. Jerome., In a fair country 17 17 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: March 18, 1861., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for May or search for May in all documents.

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And without determining at this time whether the State of Virginia will unite herself with any other State or association of States in any common Government, this Convention doth respectfully and earnestly request that the States of North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Arkansas and Delaware will, as soon as possible, appoint Commissioners to meet Commissioners, to be appointed by this Convention, in the city of Lexington, in the State of Kentucky, on the last Wednesday in May next, to confer together and to propose a plan of constructing a Government to be formed by the said States, Virginia inclusive, and the Confederate States of America.-- Such plan of Government, however, to have no binding authority till the same shall be adopted and ratified by this Convention — And for the better accomplishment of the objects intended, the said Confederate States of America are also respectfully requested to send three Commissioners to the Conference herein proposed — who s
The Convention. On Saturday Mr. Goggin offered an ordinance (as an amendment to the report of the Committee on Federal Relations,) for the withdrawal of Virginia from the Union, and for a Conference of the Border Slave States, at Lexington, Ky., on the last Wednesday in May next, to propose a plan of constructing a Government to the formed by said States and the Confederate States of America; such plan to have no binding authority till adopted and ratified by the Virginia State Convention, which, it is provided, shall adjourn over to await the result. It declares that the Union can only be restored upon the original basis by an amendment to the Constitution, emanating from the non-slaveholding States, for the sure protection of the rights of the South. The last clause suspends the operation of a previous clause, for assuming the Government property within the State, till such time as the Convention may deem proper to enforce the same, desiring to avoid any collision, and with
The Daily Dispatch: March 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], The African slave trade in the British Parliament. (search)
o-day, confirmed the nominations of the District Judges as follows: A. G. McGrath, of S, C,; H. R. Jackson, of Ga.; Wm. Lanier Harris, of Miss.; Thos. J. Semmes, of La.; John Hemphill, of Texas; Jesse J. Finley, of Fla.; McQueen McIntosh, Judge of the Admiralty Courts, of Key West; David Hubbard, of Ala., Commissioner of Indian Affairs; Alexander B. Withall, of Ala., Register of the Treasury; Bolling Baker, of Ga. Auditor in the Treasury. The Congress meets again to-night. The Convention adopted a resolution to adjourn on Wednesday. It passed an ordinance altering the free banking act, which substitutes stocks of Confederate States for United States. The stocks allow issue of two for one. Foreign citizens and corporations not allowed to hold stock. Two members of Congress have been elected to supply resignations. H. C. Jones, of Lanerdas, and Nich. Davis, of Madison, are elected. Latest.--Congress adjourned to-night to meet again on the second Monday in May.