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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1,078 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 442 0 Browse Search
Brig.-Gen. Bradley T. Johnson, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 2.1, Maryland (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 440 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 430 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 330 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. 324 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 306 0 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 284 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 254 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 150 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: July 20, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Impossibility of Johnston saving Vicksburg (search)
of the Pawnee down the river. The injury inflicted on the enemy is not known. Several estimates indicate a loss of from forty to sixty killed, mostly negroes, as they were escaping through the marsh. Two white Yankee officers were seen to fall. Fourteen blacks fell into our hands, including a sergeant and corporal. Five claimed to be free; the remainder finally confessed they were runaway slaves. One hailed from Michigan, two or three from Massachusetts, one from Missouri, one from Maryland, and several from Kentucky. One rascal, running up with his musket, exclaimed: "Here, massa, nebber shoot him off — taken"--showing evidently his low country origin; but unfortunately somebody's gun went off about the same time, and the fellow was killed. They received no tender treatment during the skirmish, and the marsh in one place was thick with their dead bodies. A noteworthy fact, mentioned by the prisoners, is, that after they were put into the fight, their white officers deserted
The Daily Dispatch: July 20, 1863., [Electronic resource], Progress of the war. (search)
six hundred thousand men are to be raised. If, as is supposed, three hundred thousand additional troops are to be added to the Union army by the present conscription, the proper quota to be drawn from this city would be about twelve thousand of our citizens. Instead of this number, however, over twenty-two thousand are being drafted, and, with fifty per cent, extra required for exemptions, thirty-three thousand six hundred! No allowance is made for the militia who are in Pennsylvania and Maryland, and the $300 to be paid by rich conscripts, instead of purchasing substitutes, is to be diverted, against the spirit of the law, to some other direction. The evident aim of those who have the Conscription act in hand, in this State, is to lesson the number of Democratic votes at the next election. The miscreants at the head of the Government are bending all their powers, as was revealed in the late speech of Wendell Phillips, at Framingham, to securing a perpetuation of their ascendan