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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 9 9 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 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore) 1 1 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 1 1 Browse Search
Isaac O. Best, History of the 121st New York State Infantry 1 1 Browse Search
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order 1 1 Browse Search
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct. 1 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: November 6, 1861., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
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Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 4 (search)
laid for us by the abandoned Arnold, by giving up a most important post, when upon the point of execution. * * * Nor can we omit the glorious successes under God, of the brave General Greene in the Carolinas and Georgia, which were overrun by the enemy, and in a great measure plundered and destroyed, and now call for our pity and help. But what now particularly calls for our religious praise to God, our helper, is the Capture of Cornwallis, and his whole army of 10,000 men [at Yorktown, Oct. 19, 1781]. Americans are above trampling on those whom God has cast down. This British officer, though dignified by many pompous titles, by his cruelties has degraded himself below a savage, and even the beasts that perish. Before I close, I must damp this joyful occasion with a tear to the memory of our brave officers and soldiers, who have fallen in this glorious struggle for Liberty. Most of them unknown to us. But the names and bravery of a Warren, a Gardner, a Francis, and of late a Sca