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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 311 5 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8 100 0 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. 94 8 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10 74 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition. 68 0 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. 54 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 44 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition. 44 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 41 3 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 38 6 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 28. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.5 (search)
E. Bouldin, Formerly Captain Charlotte Cavalry, Company B, 14th Virginia, Confederate States Army. [The following revised roll, has been recently furnished by Captain Bouldin.—Ed.] Roll of the Charlotte Cavalry. It served first in Major George Jackson's Squadron of Cavalry, C. S. A.; then it was made Company B in the 14th Virginia Cavalry, C. S. A., under General A. G. Jenkins, next under General John M. McCausland, and last under General Beale, in the Army of Northern Virginia: Adams, Paul V., Second Sergeant. Barksdale, Claiborne G. Barksdale, Armistead, First Lieutenant. Barksdale, E. Henry. Bouldin, Powhatan. Bouldin, Robert C. Bouldin, Breckenridge C., Second Lieutenant and Adjutant 14th Virginia Cavalry. Killed at Brandy Station. Bouldin, E. E., First Lieutenant, then Captain from April, 1862, until May, 1865. Wounded at Williamsport, July 14th, 1863. Bouldin, Thomas T., Jr. Bouldin, John E. Beirne, Andrew, died in prison at Point Loo
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 28. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The pioneer of secession. (search)
ons of the Continental Congress. The speaker explained that the material upon which his address was based had been secured from abstracts of debates and letters written by Benjamin Rush and Thomas Burke, of North Carolina. The notes of debates taken by the former had much to say about the relations that had existed between Congress and the individual States, as well as the methods of electing the officers of the army. In discussing the latter subject, mention was made of the remarks of John Adams, when he said, in February, 1777: There are certain principles which follow us through life, and none more certainly than love of the first place. I am sorry to see that it prevails so little in this Assembly, which is disposed to idolize an image which their own hands have made. I speak here of the superstitious veneration which is sometimes paid to General Washington. Although I honor him for his good qualities, yet, in this House, I feel myself his superior. In private life, I sh
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 28. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Official report of the history Committee of the Grand Camp C. V., Department of Virginia. (search)
l (the States), so it will be the duty of some, to prepare definitely for a separation, amicably if they can, violently if they must. Whilst this author may be right in characterizing the development of the doctrine, and fixing this right as a Massachusetts heresy, he is wrong in fixing upon its first progenitor, and in saying that the date of its birth was as late as 1811; for in 1803, one Colonel Timothy Pickering, a Senator from Massachusetts, and Secretary of State in the Cabinet of John Adams, complaining of what he called the oppressions of the aristocratic Democrats of the South, said, I will not despair; I will rather anticipate a new Confederacy. * * * That this can be accomplished without spilling one drop of blood I have little doubt. * * * it must begin with Massachusetts. The proposition would be welcomed by Connecticut; and could we doubt of New Hampshire? But New York must be associated; and how is her concurrence to be obtained? She must be made the center of the