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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 278 278 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 100 100 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 47 47 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 43 43 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 41 41 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 23 23 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 19 19 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 19 19 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 18 18 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 16 16 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: April 18, 1863., [Electronic resource], From Suffolk. (search)
reduce the quantity of cotton. One member made a calculation in Georgia to show that the supposed surplus of corn — say 10,000,000 bushels — was fallacious. The estimated crop of 15,000,000 bushels, on the supposed bales of 14 bushels to the acre, was not verified by the facts in 1862, as it was notorious that in the Cherokee region the yield was very short from a diminished breadth of land planted, owing to the absence of labor in the army, and to the excessive drought of last summer. In 1849 when in the upper counties it was common for 30,40, and 50 bushels to be produced to the acre, the average for the State was only 16 bushels, while in 1863, in many parts of the Cherokee region, the production was only 10 and 15 bushels — Even in Southwestern Georgia the average was not over 10 bushels, as the experience of planters will testify. From these promises he said that it was evident that no such surplus is on hand for the use of the army, and for the people of the mountains where <