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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1,057 5 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 114 0 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 106 2 Browse Search
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 72 0 Browse Search
John Esten Cooke, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of War. 70 0 Browse Search
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee 67 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 60 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. 58 0 Browse Search
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade) 56 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 54 2 Browse Search
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alized Earl Russell against the blockade of Charleston harbor by the Stone fleet, Earl Russell, in response, stated that he sent dispatches to Lord Lyons, in December, expressing the dissatisfaction of the British Government at such a proceeding, and giving it as his opinion that the consummation of the act would lead to the belief in Europe that the reconstruction of the Union was considered impracticable. He also stated that, after the design was carried out, he sent another dispatch to Washington, deploring the course which had been pursued, and expressing strong hopes that the proceeding would not be repeated at any other port. Probability of speedy recognition. The London correspondent of the Manchester Guardian says. "it is no secret that the South has its active and intelligent agents in London, as well as its officiously recognized envoys, and that they are straining every nerve to force the Government into some action or policy that will tend to alienate Englan
a letter of marque, and that I am cruising under no such letter. He known that I have been regularly commissioned as a ship-of-war of the Confederate States. If he and his deluded associates insist upon calling the citizens of the Confederate States "Rebels," under the idea that those States still form a part of the old Yankee concern, then he might characterize me as a Rebel man-of-war. But if I am this, so were all the ships of the American colonies commissioned by the Virginian, George Washington. Mr. Welles tells the President and Congress that, by "some fatality," I ran the blockade at New Orleans, and that he has ordered the whole affair to be investigated. He says, also, that he has had six of his largest and fastest steamers in pursuit of me, and that the commander of one of them was so energetic as to perform the wonderful fast of tracking me as far as Maranham, in Brazil. This, I suppose, is one of those daring acts — the officer being in command of a heavy fr