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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2 1,039 11 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 833 7 Browse Search
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1 656 14 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 580 0 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 459 3 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) 435 13 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 355 1 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. 352 2 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 333 7 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 330 2 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: November 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], A strange proceeding of the Governor of Illinois. (search)
s proclamation recently made, ordered Colonel John A Davis, with two hundred and fifty of his troops, with a six pounder, from Camp Butler to Alton, to intercept the steamer and bring back the men who were being conveyed thereon to St. Louis, Colonel Davis left here on Monday night, with his troops, upon a special train, and arrived at Alton early on Tuesday morning. The troops took up their position near the river, in Alton; the six-pounder was only planted, and everything got ready to bras fired with the same result, and still the steamer kept on her way. A third shot was fired, which struck the steamer near the bow, just above the water line. This hint brought her to. She was immediately boarded by Adjutant-General Mather, Colonel Davis and his troops, and the men on board were ordered to surrender, which they did. Without noticing the formalities of surrender, it is sufficient to say that the men were all brought to this place, and are now prisoners at Camp Butler. With th
The Daily Dispatch: November 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 6 (search)
wing away their crops in the seed on their plantations, that the South is fully prepared for the occupation of its ports by the Federalists, and that the expectation is general in the Cotton States that the war will be a long one. The Times says: "From the stray facts which reach us from the South, it would appear that there is no intention of yielding, and that compromise with the North, even on the most favorable terms for slavery, would be rejected by the obstinate race which obeys Jefferson Davis." We came to this conclusion long ago, and we are still of opinion, for the reasons which we have so often stated, that the South will resist to the death, that it will not voluntarily re-enter the Union, and that even in the improbable contingency of its being subdued after a long and sanguinary war, the North could never hold it as a conquered nation. We do not believe, either, that it can be subdued by force of arms, or that it will die of atrophy. Its internal resources are, with