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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 69 1 Browse Search
Col. Robert White, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 2.2, West Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 42 0 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 30 0 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 22 0 Browse Search
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders. 22 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 20 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Battles 18 0 Browse Search
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 II. 16 4 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 13 1 Browse Search
Jubal Anderson Early, Ruth Hairston Early, Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early , C. S. A. 11 1 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: June 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], "What are we fighting For?" (search)
The Virginia mountaineers. The late report in the mountains that the enemy was marching upon Lewisburg had, at least, the good effect of showing the kind of reception they were likely to meet in such an attempt. The mountaineers turned out like hornets from their nests, each man armed with the deadly mountain rifle and a butcher-knife. With these weapons they stationed themselves in ambush, and in narrow passes, in companies of fifties and hundreds.--Old men, whose heads are whitened with the frosts of eighty winters, came armed, unwilling to give the arduous post to their sons. An invading enemy would have a gay time in attempting to make their way over the Virginia mountains.
The Daily Dispatch: June 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], Abolitionists Won't fight. (search)
nt about Fincastle — the people spring to arms — exciting scenes, &c. Fincastle, June 8, 1861. Thursday morning last a rumor reached our little village that 11,000 Ohio troops were marching through Western Virginia; that they had burned Lewisburg and the White Sulphur Springs the evening before, and were then marching upon Covington. It would be impossible to give you the slightest idea of the excitement produced by such a report. A meeting was called immediately, to consider whata, East of Kanawha county, and should the day come when the Ohio men feel inclined to march through this section of country, my word for it, a stump-tail ox in fly time would be more comfortable. I learned that 3,000 men were in and around Lewisburg, anxiously awaiting their coming. Six hundred were on the march from Alleghany, five hundred from Monroe, and as many were ready to march from this county and Craig. When these people learned that the report was a false one, many threw do