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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 16,340 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 3,098 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 2,132 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 1,974 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 1,668 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 1,628 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) 1,386 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 1,340 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. 1,170 0 Browse Search
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 1,092 0 Browse Search
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to benefit New England interests, or to supply food to New England bigotries and hates.--The trade of New York city was to be destroyed by imposing duties which would force foreign merchandise up to Canada, and thence, by smuggling, into the United States; while New England was to avoid the heavy burden of taxation, in great measure, by placing the heaviest excise duties of our internal revenue upon two articles in which her interests are insignificant. Her six States, with an aggregate popul, for refusing to pray as the General Commandant ordered: "The greatest excitement was on yesterday, (July 26) You are aware that, some time ago, there was an order issued here for all the clergy to read prayers for the President of the United States in their respective churches on every Sunday, under pain, if not complied with, that the offenders were to be sent out of their lines, and their churches closed and taken possession of by the military. This order caused some correspondence b
The Daily Dispatch: August 25, 1864., [Electronic resource], Abingdon, Virginia, August 20, 1864. To the Editor of the Richmond Dispatch: (search)
Abingdon, Virginia, August 20, 1864. To the Editor of the Richmond Dispatch: A late issue of the Enquirer, just brought to my notice, contains some gratuitous pleasantries on my father. I ask of you, in justice to an absent man, the favor to state in your journal that Mr. George N. Sanders was never at a political meeting in Columbus, Ohio, and never aided in the nomination of Mr. John Slidell for the office of United States Vice-President in 1856, or any other office, at any time. Respectfully, George N. Sanders, Jr.
Confederate States District Court. --John H. Leftwich's habeas corpus case was again taken up yesterday morning and occupied the whole day's proceedings. Hon. Humphrey Marshall spoke in behalf of the petitioner, and Colonel Thomas P. August closed the argument for the Government; after which Judge Halyburton gave notice that he should reserve his decision till a future day, and thereupon the Court adjourned till eleven o'clock this morning. The decision in the case of Frederick W. Boyd will be rendered this morning by the Judge.
ing like this: To go to the people with two propositions, say, peace with disunion and Southern independence as your proposition — and peace with union, emancipation, no confiscation and universal amnesty as ours. Let the citizens of all the United States (as they existed before the war) vote 'Yes,' or 'No' on these two propositions, at a special election, within sixty days. If a majority vote disunion, our Government to be bound by it, and to let you go in peace. If a majority votes union, yu let the majority rule in a single State, why not let it rule in the whole country?" "Because the States are independent and sovereign." "Then we are not a people, but a partnership?" "That is all." "Your very name, sir--'United States'--implies that," said Mr. Benjamin; "but tell me, are the teams you have named — emancipation, confiscation universal the terms which Mr. Lincoln authorized to offer us!" "No, sir! Mr. Lincoln did not authorize me offer you any ter