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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore) 15 11 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore) 14 10 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 14 2 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 II. 13 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 12 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: March 11, 1862., [Electronic resource] 11 1 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2 10 0 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 10 0 Browse Search
H. Wager Halleck , A. M. , Lieut. of Engineers, U. S. Army ., Elements of Military Art and Science; or, Course of Instruction in Strategy, Fortification, Tactis of Battles &c., Embracing the Duties of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery and Engineers. Adapted to the Use of Volunteers and Militia. 10 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. 9 1 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: may 9, 1862., [Electronic resource], Affairs at Chattanooga, Tenn. (search)
de by nature; he must be born a General, or else all the military schools in the world cannot make up the deficiency. We have as much contempt as any one for politicians who affect to play the part of great soldiers; but it is absurd to assume that all are soldiers who have gone through a military school, and that a man cannot be a General who has not rubbed against the walls of one of these institutions. Napoleon would have been Napoleon if he had never been in a school of arms, just as Alexander, Cœsar, and Hannibal were without any such advantages. What would have become of our Revolution without Washington, who never had a military cation? The last war with England would never have known its greatest victory but for the farmer Jackson, who defended successfully against the picked veterans of England that city which a graduate of West Point has given up without firing a gun ! Even Scott himself, who gained such laurels in that war, was not educated to the profession of arms. W
The Daily Dispatch: may 9, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
Heavy Haul. --A girl named Mary Sullivan, well known formerly for her aptitude for begging, and who lives in Tyler's Row, at Rocketts, was arrested yesterday evening at her domicil, by Deputy C. S. Marshal Henry Myers, and carried to Capt. Alexander's office, charged with stealing $1,000 in bank notes from a male visitant to her shanty. She protested her innocence, but was committed to Castle Godwin for examination. It appears that she had been arrested in the morning and conveyed to the Assistant Marshal's office, and being put temporarily in an upper room, she escaped and made her way home, when she was again hunted up by officer Myers. The girl Mary Sullivan, we believe, has been before the Mayor a number of times for petty delinquencies, and been often in jail.