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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 160 160 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 25 25 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 17 17 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 12 12 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 9 9 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 7 7 Browse Search
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 6 6 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) 6 6 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 5 5 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Condensed history of regiments. 5 5 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.). You can also browse the collection for August, 1861 AD or search for August, 1861 AD in all documents.

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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book VII:—politics. (search)
t, but also for meeting a portion of the current expenses and for offering an earnest guarantee to capitalists, who were soon to be called upon to make new advances to the Federal treasury. The day when the new loan should be entirely taken the Secretary would have required the sum of sixteen millions for the necessities of his department alone. We have stated that Mr. Chase had proposed to raise eighty millions by taxation. These propositions were endorsed and authorized by the law of August, 1861. It was expected that the increase in the rate of duties on imported articles would raise the custom-house revenue from thirty-eight to fifty-seven millions; but this expectation was sadly disappointed, for these excessive duties, instead of increasing the custom-house revenue, reduced it to thirty-two millions. Secretary Chase says the receipts fell short of his expectations because of— (1) the diminution (against his advice) in the duties on tea, coffee and sugar; (2) the exemption