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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 230 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died. 104 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 82 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 33. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 74 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 46 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. 46 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Index, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 38 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 36 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1: prelminary narrative 32 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 32 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: December 31, 1860., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
d confidence had been placed by the entire population that every impulse to take the necessary precautions for their own safety had been restrained. Instinctively men flew to arms. Orders were immediately issued to the following companies to hold themselves in readiness for service: Washington Light Infantry, Capt. C. H. Simonton; Carolina Light Infantry, Capt. B. G. Pinckney; Meagher Guards, Capt. Ed. McCready, Jr.; all together forming a portion of the Regiment of Rifles, commanded by Col., J. J. Pettigrew and Maj. Ellison Capers; also, to the Marion Artillery, Capt. J. G. Kleg; Lafayette Artillery, Capt. J. J. Pope, Jr. Washington Artillery, Capt. G. H. Walter; German Artillery, Capt. C. Nohrden; all under command of Lieut. Col. W. G. DeSaussure. All the military forces thus ordered out promptly obeyed the summons, and the streets were soon enlivened by the appearance of individual members of the different organizations in their uniforms. About noon the excitement in
The Daily Dispatch: December 31, 1860., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
rial for history; and so they are, if history be the mere record of siege and battle, of assault without provocation, and murder under color of law, which we have been taught to believe it is, and which it seems to be, since it is a record of little else. But during those quiet, silent ages, materials for a conflagration are always accumulating — mischief is always brewing — the devil is always roaming the earth — and at last comes an explosion, to prove that Peace Societies are farces, that Col.Napier's position is true, and that war is the normal state of man. Nothing can prevent it. If beset by calamity, nations vent their wrath on their neighbors — if wallowing in prosperity and waxing fat, they are sure to kick. Every state and condition of society is opposed to peace, else why is the wisdom of statesmen always taxed to the very extent of their capacities to preserve its Why is it so easy always to get up a war, when it is so hard to preserve the peace? Why must a man, if he