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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 42 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 36 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 34 0 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 30 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 28 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 28 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 28 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 24 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. 24 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 22 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: June 4, 1863., [Electronic resource], "This Lamentable War." (search)
nd them to the Union. They knew their usurpations would lead to secession unless the power of the Washington Government could be made so resistless and overshadowing as to check it.--They threw off all disguise. Their President, elected without a solitary vote in the Southern States, holdly expounded their constitutional dogma by declaring that States were no more to the Federal Government than counties were to the States! He wanted to ignore the States altogether — to cease calling men Virginians, South Carolinians, Georgians, etc., and to call them Americans! The system of Government established by our Revolutionary Fathers — that system which contemplated the independence and sovereignty of the municipalities — the States--as indispensable to public and personal liberty — was discarded and contemned as idle and ridiculous. The Federal Government was everything — the States nothing. To have submitted to his election, his inauguration, and his rule, would have been to accept
The Daily Dispatch: June 4, 1863., [Electronic resource], The New Orleans Exiles. (search)
The New Orleans Exiles. A large and influential gathering of Louisianians and Virginians assembled on Tuesday last at the Capitol; for the purpose of devising measures for the relief of the noble patriots who have sacrificed their property and incurred banishment from their homes rather than disgrace themselves by succumbing to the vile invaders of Louisiana. The old and the young, the venerable matron, the patriarch tottering on the brink of the grave, the blooming maiden, the mother and her unoffending little ones, have all been ruthlessly expelled from their firesides for refusing to perjure themselves and to repudiate their fathers, husbands, and brothers, now fighting in the ranks of our patriotic armies. Surely the appeal now made in their behalf must come home to every generous heart. The blood which Louisiana's brave sons have shed on every battlefield of Virginia speaks with mute, but irresistible eloquence, to the noble-hearted and openhanded citizens of the Old Domi