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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10 56 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 24 8 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 24 0 Browse Search
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career. 10 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. 9 1 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1 6 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 6 0 Browse Search
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2 6 0 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2 6 0 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3 6 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: April 8, 1864., [Electronic resource], Later from New Orleans. (search)
We fought our own battles during the revolution, and we helped the Yankees to fight theirs. The Southern troops throughout the war were the best and the bravest of Washington's army. They saved the army by their valor at Brandywine, when the Yankees, in a panic, abandoned their strong position at Chald's ford. They carried everything before them at Germantown, and would that day have put an end to the war had they been supported by the Yankees.--It was with the greatest difficulty that Lafayette could induce the Yankee portion of his troops to come farther South than Baltimore, when he was sent to rally the Virginia militia and make head against Cornwallis. The division of Wayne came near mutinying when ordered to Virginia. It was only during a few months of this-year, (1781,) when Washington was manœuvering to circumvent Carnwallis, and while he was besieging him in York, that any large number of Yankee troops ever came south of the Susquehanna. To that siege, besides the regu