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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 58 58 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 46 46 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 28 28 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 17 17 Browse Search
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 12 12 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 8: Soldier Life and Secret Service. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 11 11 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 10: The Armies and the Leaders. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 11 11 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 10 10 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 9 9 Browse Search
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2 8 8 Browse Search
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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 9: (search)
invasion, and on application of the Legislature, or of the executive (when the Legislature can not be convened), against domestic violence. Surely, if federal troops could not be sent into a a state without its application, even to protect it against domestic violence, still less could it be done to overrule the will of its people. That, instead of an obligation upon the citizens of other states to respond to a call by the President for troops to invade a particular state, it was in April, 1861, deemed a high crime to so use them: reference is here made to the published answers of the governors of states which had not seceded to the requisition made upon them for troops to be employed against the states which had seceded. Governor Letcher of Virginia replied to the requisition of the United States Secretary of War as follows: I am requested to detach from the militia of the State of Virginia the quota designated in a table which you append, to serve as infantry or rifleme
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 12: (search)
own. It will be seen under what disadvantages our people successfully prosecuted the (to them) new pursuits of mining and manufacturing. The chief of ordnance was General J. Gorgas, a man remarkable for his scientific attainment, for the highest administrative capacity and moral purity, all crowned by zeal and fidelity to his trust, in which he achieved results greatly disproportioned to the means at his command. He closes his excellent monograph in the following words: We began in April, 1861, without an arsenal, laboratory, or powder-mill of any capacity, and with no foundry or rolling-mill, except in Richmond, and, before the close of 1863, or within a little over two years, we supplied them. During the harassments of war, while holding our own in the field defiantly and successfully against a powerful enemy; crippled by a depreciated currency; throttled with a blockade that deprived us of nearly all the means of getting material or workmen; obliged to send almost every ab
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 13: (search)
es  347,272,958.85 Total receipts  302,482,096.60 ——————— Deficient Treasury notes authorized     16,755,165.00 Deficient Treasury notes to be provided    28,035,697.25 ———————  $44,790,862.25 The receipts were derived as follows: Custom $  1,437,399.96 War tax  10,539,910.70 Miscellaneous    1,974,760.33    $13,952,079.99 Loans, bonds, February, 1861  15,000,000.00 Bonds, August, 1861  22,613,346.61 Call certificates, December, 1861  37,515,200.00 Treasury notes, April, 1861  22,799,900.00 Demand notes, August, 1861187,130,670.00 One and two dollar notes       846,900.00 Due banks    2,645,000.00   $288,551,016.61 ———————— Total receipts  $302,503,096.60 Such was the result presented by the treasury of a government that had been in existence only eighteen months. It commenced that existence without a treasury, and, without the sinews and the munitions of war, was i