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Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 185 15 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 4. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 179 3 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 33. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 139 13 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 120 0 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 94 4 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 80 6 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 79 5 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 75 7 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. 75 3 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 62 4 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: September 7, 1863., [Electronic resource], Acquitted. (search)
their tents on the green near the military Academy. The remaining companies of the regiment, now at Fort Norfolk, and quartered in other parts of the city, were to join them in a day or two. The editor remarks: This quarter of the town is intensely "secesh,"and we hope that the presence of so many loyal soldiers in the neighborhood, with the "old flag" constantly in view, and the patriotic music of the band every morning and evening, may do the inhabitants good. By the way, won't Col. Johnson do what the 19th Wisconsin proposed to do had they remained there — have a "liberty pole" erected at the corner of Catherine and Charlotte streets, something like the one Major Wentz has set up near the rail road station. It would add greatly to the appearance of the camp, and furnish the only possible means in that section of the city of conspicuously displaying the "starry banner." The following is published in the paper, headed "important action of the City Council of Portsmouth:
The Daily Dispatch: September 7, 1863., [Electronic resource], From Northern Virginia. (search)
Military Execution --On Saturday afternoon last the ten men belonging to Company H, 3d N. C. regiment, charged with desertion and the murder of Adjutant Mallett, of Raleigh, N. C., explained their offences in the presence of Gen. Edward Johnson's command, Army of the Potomac. The secure is represented to have been one of great solemnity, and impressive and sorrowful in the highest degree. The detail to carry out the sentence of the Court Martial condemning them to be shot was selected from the different companies of the regiment to which they were attached, and when the command was given to fire, a volley was poured in upon the unhappy men. At the first fire five of them fell dead, but there being indications of life in the others, a second fire was ordered, which terminated the existence of the wretched creatures who had so shamefully abandoned the standards of their country and imbrued their hands in the blood of a gallant officer.