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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories	151	151	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)	18	18	Browse	Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing)	11	11	Browse	Search
The Daily Dispatch: August 19, 1861., [Electronic resource]	8	8	Browse	Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies	7	7	Browse	Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans)	6	6	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.	6	6	Browse	Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones)	6	6	Browse	Search
Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865	6	6	Browse	Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4	5	5	Browse	Search
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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 6: Louisiana. 1859-1861. (search)

red — the cadets to their homes, and the professors wherever they pleased — all to meet again on the 1st day of the next November. Major Smith and I agreed to meet in New York on a certain day in August, to purchase books, models, etc. I went directly to my family in Lancaster, and after a few days proceeded to Washington, to endeavor to procure from the General Government the necessary muskets and equipments for our cadets by the beginning of the next term. I was in Washington on the 17th day of August, and hunted up my friend Major Buell, of the Adjutant-General's Department, who was on duty with the Secretary of War, Floyd. I had with me a letter of Governor Moore's, authorizing me to act in his name. Major Buell took me into Floyd's room at the War Department, to whom I explained my business, and I was agreeably surprised to meet with such easy success. Although the State of Louisiana had already drawn her full quota of arms, Floyd promptly promised to order my requisition to b

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