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John Esten Cooke, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of War. 56 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore) 54 2 Browse Search
Elias Nason, McClellan's Own Story: the war for the union, the soldiers who fought it, the civilians who directed it, and his relations to them. 44 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 44 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Battles 42 0 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 36 0 Browse Search
Robert Stiles, Four years under Marse Robert 35 1 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 I. 30 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 28 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 26 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: August 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], Ranaway (search)
[from the Leesburg (Va.) Mirror, Aug. 8.] Our Northern foes have at length pressed with their unhallowed tread the soil of Loudoun, and stained her earth with the blood of one of her sons; and, worse than all, they have been aided and abetted in their hellish work by men who bear the sacred name of Virginians — aye, of Loudouners. For some days past it has been known that Federal troops were prowling along the opposite banks of the Potomac river, menacing our people by their occasional nocturnal visits to this side; but within the last ten days infuriated, no doubt, by the humiliating recollection of their disgraceful rout at Bull Run, they have crossed over to take revenge, as would seem, on our unprotected border, and are we learn, now quartered in the vicinity of Lovettsville, in numbers estimated at several hundred. On Friday morning last a party crossed at Edward's Ferry, three miles below Leesburg, and burned the old warehouse and the ferry man's house at that poi