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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 162 162 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 119 119 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 25 25 Browse Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 23 23 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 21 21 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Condensed history of regiments. 20 20 Browse Search
The Atlanta (Georgia) Campaign: May 1 - September 8, 1864., Part I: General Report. (ed. Maj. George B. Davis, Mr. Leslie J. Perry, Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley) 20 20 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 18 18 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 18 18 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Irene E. Jerome., In a fair country 17 17 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1863., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for May or search for May in all documents.

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The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1863., [Electronic resource], The capture of Arkansas Post. (search)
Thad Stevens and the Niggers. Thad, Stevens is determined not to let the contrabands eat the bread of idleness. As 300,000 Yankee troops go out of service in May, he proposes to supply half the deficiency by darkles.--These latter, therefore, are likely to have a lively time of it in future. They though, no doubt, when they left their masters and went off with the Yankees, that they would spend the rest of their lives in idleness, which state is the genuine African's ideal of Heaven. Tfall to make him more in love than ever with the Yankees. The introduction of this proposition by Stevens indicates an assurance on his part, and doubtless on that of his party also, that the gap to be made by the withdrawal of so many men in May cannot easily be filled up. As citizens the negro will improve Yankee society very greatly. They are better bred and more honest. But they are not exactly the material for soldiers, and as the making of them soldiers is not what they bargained f
The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1863., [Electronic resource], General Assembly of Virginia. (search)
referred to the Committee on Confederate Relations. Agreed to. Mr. McCamant stated that the committee appointed at the last session on the subject of saint having performed their duty, he now offered a resolution that said committee be revived, and authorized to provide for the further increase of the supply of saint and its distribution. Resolutions of Inquiry.--By Mr. James whether any further legislation is necessary to enable the soldiers of Virginia to vote at the election in May next; by Mr. Ryan, into the propriety of repeating the 81st section of the act of the 27th March, 1862, and allowing Sheriffs and Commissioners of the Revenue to receive the same compensation as if said act had not been passed; by Mr. Treadway, that the Committee on Courts of Justice inquire whether any legislation is necessary to protest the citizens of Virginia who have furnished substitutes in the Confederate service from the operations of the recently published order of Adjutant-General R