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William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 395 395 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 370 370 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 156 156 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8 46 46 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition. 36 36 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 34 34 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition. 29 29 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died. 26 26 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Condensed history of regiments. 25 25 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 23 23 Browse Search
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midsummer, over the Alleghanies, along the narrow road, which was walled in by the dense forest on either side. On the second day of August the troops and con- Aug. voy arrived at Ligonier, but the commander could give no intelligence of the enemy. All the expresses for the previous month had been killed or forced to return. conduct of the officers. Col. Bouquet to Sir Jeffery Amherst: Camp at Edge Hill, 5 Aug. 1763. Night intervened, during which the English re- chap. VII.} 1763. Aug. mained on Edge Hill, a ridge a mile to the east of Bushy Run, commodious for a camp except for the total want of water. All that night hope cheered the Red Men.re the news of the last disaster could reach New-York, the anger of Amherst against the bloody villains knew no bounds; and he became himself a chap. VII.} 1763. Aug. man of blood. As to accommodation with the savages, I will have none, said he, until they have felt our just revenge. I would have every measure that can be fall
1. as they were called, al- chap. VIII.} 1763. Aug. though too fond of office to perceive their own the letter refers to the conversation held in August. to accept an employment, whilst all my friendisregarding the most earnest chap. VIII.} 1763 Aug. dissuasions of Grenville, desired ten days for the one side, and the Duke chap. VIII.} 1763. Aug. of Bedford Geo. Grenville's Diary, in Grenri The anger of Bedford towards Bute, for having Aug. communicated to the French minister the instrucrenville Papers, II. 193. I chap. VIII.} 1763. Aug. have fully considered upon your long discourse that they made a parade of chap. VIII.} 1763. Aug. proscribing him, and wished not only to deprived me faithfully and devoted chap. VIII.} 1763. Aug. themselves to me The reproach, answered Pitt, w after his long and anxious chap. VIII.} 1763. Aug. suspense, was called in, he could think only ofe head of the Treasury, in- chap. VIII.} 1763. Aug. stead of Lord Temple. Grenville's Diary, in
t of Connecticut led by Colonel Israel Putnam, The uncommonly meritorious work of Parkman on the Pontiac war, adopts too easily the cavils of the British officers at Bradstreet and at the American battalions. Bradstreet was an excellent officer, and the troops of Connecticut were not scum and refuse, but good New England men, and they did their work well. Mante is an able and well-informed historian, distinguished for his accuracy and his general impartiality. the whole chap. X.} 1764. Aug. under the command of Bradstreet, reached Niagara. There was found a vast concourse of Indians, of various nations, willing to renew friendship, and expecting presents. The Senecas, to save their settlements from imminent destruction, brought in prisoners, and ratified a peace. Bradstreet had been ordered by General Gage to give peace to all such nations of Indians as would sue for it, and to chastise those that continued in arms; but none remained in arms. Half way from Buffalo to Erie,
nd more before the news of the change of chap. XVI.} 1765. Aug. ministry was received in Boston, and while the passions of e for taking part in the plunder? North chap. XVI.} 1765. Aug. American liberty is dead, wrote another, who had a clear vidaybreak of Wednesday, the fourteenth of chap. XVI.} 1765. Aug. August, saw the effigy of Oliver tricked out with emblems otamp Act shall not be executed here, ex- chap. XVI.} 1765. Aug. claimed one who spoke the general sentiment. Death to the rness of enduring anger and disappointed chap. XVI.} 1765. Aug. avarice in his heart, seasonably in the day-time, gave it uvailed to get a friend of Grenville made chap. XVI.} 1765. Aug. agent for the colony.—He had a principal hand in projecting days could not be got sight of. Several chap. XVI.} 1765. Aug. persons who thought themselves obnoxious, left their houses pillaged. McEvers to Colden, August. chap. XVI.} 1765. Aug. McEvers is terrified, said Colden to a friend; Colden to
rms, but were restrained by a menace of dismissal chap XX.} 1765. Dec. from office. In Boston, this question was agitated with determined zeal; but first the people dealt with Andrew Oliver, who had received his commission as stampman. On the very day, and almost at the hour when the King was proceeding in state to the House of Lords to open parliament, the true-born Sons of Liberty, deaf to all entreaties, placed Oliver at the head of a long procession, with Mackintosh, a leader in the August riots, at his side, and with great numbers following, on the cold wet morning, escorted him to Liberty Tree, to stand in the rain under the very bough on which he had swung in effigy. There, in the presence of two thousand men, he declared in a written paper, to which he publicly set his name, that he would never directly or indirectly take any measures to enforce the Stamp Act, and with the whole multitude for witnesses, he, upon absolute requisition, made oath to this pledge before Richar