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Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 94 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 69 7 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore) 42 0 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 24 0 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 18 0 Browse Search
Col. Robert White, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 2.2, West Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 16 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: September 18, 1861., [Electronic resource] 16 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. 16 0 Browse Search
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee 14 0 Browse Search
Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 14 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: July 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], Gen. Jesse Clemens (search)
he invaders of our soil. We shall defer, till we have more precise particulars, any attempt to inquire into the causes of this misfortune. We are but imperfectly acquainted with the localities of Northwestern Virginia. We had supposed that Cheat Mountain, where five hundred men could with case dispute the progress of five thousand, would of course be occupied by our troops. It is stated that this has been abandoned, and that Col. Scott's command has fallen back upon Monterey, Highland county. It is true that a series of admirable positions for defence still remain, before an enemy can reach Staunton from the West, and we have no disposition, till all the facts are placed in our possession, of discussing the abandonment of Cheat Mountain.--But it is a position which, defended by five hundred men, may be found literally impregnable and we can scarcely credit even now the statement that it has been given up to the enemy. Except the melancholy loss of the valuable lives which has bee
The Daily Dispatch: July 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], Subscriptions to the Dispatch. (search)
om Fort Pickens. The battery consists of four pieces (twelve-pounders) and eighty-four men. New military Prison. We learn that Gen. Mansfield to-day takes possession of the old Capitol building, which is to be used as a military prison hereafter. Tender of Services. Ex-Governor Stevens, of Washington Territory, reached Washington this morning. He comes to offer his services to the Government in a military capacity for the war. He was formerly a distinguished officer of the United States Army, it will be recollected. "St. George's." This village, in Western Virginia, is fast becoming a place of note in these stirring times, as a point frequently mentioned by the press in connection with current movements of General McClellan's army and that of Gen. Hob Garnett. It is situated in a gorge of Cheat Mountain, thirty miles east of north of Beverly, and consist of but four or five houses. It is sixteen miles south (higher up on Cheat river) of Rowlesburg.