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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1,126 0 Browse Search
D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 528 0 Browse Search
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary 402 0 Browse Search
A Roster of General Officers , Heads of Departments, Senators, Representatives , Military Organizations, &c., &c., in Confederate Service during the War between the States. (ed. Charles C. Jones, Jr. Late Lieut. Colonel of Artillery, C. S. A.) 296 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 I. 246 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 230 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 214 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 180 0 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 174 0 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 170 0 Browse Search
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er, was intended to make suitable provision for the spiritual wants of the soldiers, as is done in the United States and every army of the old world. It is true the pay was not large — not as large even as that in the service of Virginia and North Carolina, which States paid their chaplains a hundred and fifty dollars a month. The Confederate Congress fixed the pay at $85 per month, or $1,820 a year. This amount, however, was accepted by many clergymen, some of them eminent men in their vocatport a family on this amount in the rural districts, and quite impossible in a city. But what shall be said of the last act of Congress reducing this inadequate salary, but little more than half the salary of chaplains under the Virginia and North Carolina Governments, to the pitiful sum of fifty dollars a month, or six hundred dollars a year? We are not surprised to learn that this last act — which might be entitled "An act to abolish the office of chaplain in the Confederate Army"--has been
The Daily Dispatch: September 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Commander at Mason's Hill and his Aids — a deserter — the enemy's pickets want peace, and don't like to be shot. (search)
umber of gentleman interested in the turfentered into the usual annual sweepstakes, for three-year-olds, to be run at the time-honored course of New Marker, Petersburg, Va. The present times were, of course, not anticipated nevertheiess, as training for a race is both expensive and troublesome, each gentleman who had entered was bound to be ready to fulfill his engagement to run, or pay his forfeit. There were several subscribers to the stake of which we now speak; of these, some resided in North or South Carolina, some in Virginia, and one in Savannah, Georgia. It became a question, a few days ago, "shall the stake be run?" and the response from a majority of the interested parties was, that it should be run--and run for the benefit of the suffering of the gallant army now encamped in Virginia. To understand the liberality of this donation, it is proper we should state that each of the gentlemen naming a horse in this stake, agreed to subscribe three hundred dollars if his hor
The Daily Dispatch: September 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], The great Railroad accident in England. (search)
Brutal Murder in North Carolina. --The citizens of Swift Creek, Craven county, N. C., were startled on Sunday last by the announcement that John Chapman, a highly respectable citizen of the county, had been murdered by a band of runaway negroes, headed by a black villain calling himself Ben Soon, the property of Mr. William Grimes, of Pitt county. Ben Soon is supposed to be the negro that shot and killed Mr. Chapman.--This band of runaway negroes, with Ben at their head, is the terror of that region of country.