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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 162 162 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 119 119 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 25 25 Browse Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 23 23 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 21 21 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Condensed history of regiments. 20 20 Browse Search
The Atlanta (Georgia) Campaign: May 1 - September 8, 1864., Part I: General Report. (ed. Maj. George B. Davis, Mr. Leslie J. Perry, Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley) 20 20 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 18 18 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 18 18 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Irene E. Jerome., In a fair country 17 17 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: August 10, 1864., [Electronic resource], Foreign Miscellany. (search)
conclusions could not be had then, and at those places, we are just as well off now to let disease work its telling effects on the army of Northern men, hemmed in, as they are, on the flat land and swamps of the Appomattox and the James. It is better that our enemies should be nursed first, and then die, than that we should have to hazard our men's lives and use our ammunition in the killing of them. We should not be surprised, however, to see the grand army that crossed the Rapidan in May to take Richmond and wind up the Confederacy, depart, bag and baggage, in a very few days. All its plans have failed. Its own presses confess that it has nothing to do and nothing to hope for where it is; but must sit down in inglorious idleness. A position so ridiculous, and one, indeed, so uncomfortable and unhealthy--one in which they must lose thousands by disease — could not be persistently held but in madness. Should they do so, however, they can do us no harm; while our large force