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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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The Daily Dispatch: November 5, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Northern Virginia. (search)
d justly boasted of in former days as the most rapid and wonderful in history. In the lifetime of a man it sprang to the front rank of the nations of the earth; but in less than the weaning time of a child it came to its end. Its descent was far more sudden and startling than its rise. If it "went up like the rocket, it came down like the stick." If it exceeded all other nations in the quickness of its growth, none have equalled it in the suddenness of its downfall. If it began with George Washington, it ended with Abraham Lincoln. Let us see what Abraham Lincoln has done for the United States, and what he will do with fore he returns to his native obscurity in Springfield. He has completely revolutionized its Constitution, and blotted out every vestige of freedom in what are called per excellence the free States.--He has established on the ruins of the great Republic a despotism only equalled — if that equals it — by the inexorable despotism of Russia. He has crowded dunge