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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 18 18 Browse Search
Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War 14 14 Browse Search
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862., Part II: Correspondence, Orders, and Returns. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott) 14 14 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 6 6 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Battles 5 5 Browse Search
Elias Nason, McClellan's Own Story: the war for the union, the soldiers who fought it, the civilians who directed it, and his relations to them. 4 4 Browse Search
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott) 3 3 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 3 3 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 1: The Opening Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 3 3 Browse Search
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 2 2 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: July 5, 1862., [Electronic resource], Retaliation for Northern Outrages. (search)
o doubt values it very highly, as it contains his family records. The inscription put on the register by the dead Hessian reads as follows: "Mr. George Wylie, private in the 62 Penna. Volunteers, company K, in the taking of Yorktown Va. May 4th 1862 after a charge banet on the water battery and threw the town, stakt arms in the street to draw a breath; Some of us boys went into the discarted houses, and this holy bible was the first book caught my eye, and I lifted it (!!) and seen it wasoyed, but put it into my haversack, and till we returned to camp winfield scott whare I act down to present it to my little nephew George Dun, in memory of his uncle George Wylie, the second company to enter into Yorktown the year of our Lord 1862, 4th May." The circumstances attending the larceny being thus narrated by the principal actor, and his fate ascertained, we will only add the words inscribed under private Wylie's effusion by the party who helped to recover the property stolen by