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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 338 338 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. 13 13 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 13 13 Browse Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 12 12 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 12 12 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 12 12 Browse Search
Isaac O. Best, History of the 121st New York State Infantry 10 10 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 9 9 Browse Search
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott) 8 8 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 6 6 Browse Search
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uncertain whether he would attempt to retake Forts Pickens and Moultrie, it became a very important question who should strike the first blow, and when and where it should be struck. It was thought best to wait for the South to strike it at Sumter, where some three thousand armed men had been assembled, and batteries erected with which to defend Charleston and attack Sumter. This state of things so far satisfied our legislature that war was neither near nor probable, that on the 10th day of April it repealed unanimously, so far as any roll call shows, the emergency appropriation, leaving only money enough to pay for the expenditures already incurred. How well I remember the tone of the articles in the newspapers at this time, which accused me of a desire to feed the moths with overcoats, and praised my shrewdness in getting up the scare so as to get for the company in which I was a stockholder the contract for cloth to feed the insects. On the 11th day of April, the legis