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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 84 0 Browse Search
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1 72 2 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 57 1 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. 49 3 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 45 3 Browse Search
John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History 39 3 Browse Search
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 38 4 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. 36 2 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 34 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 II. 31 3 Browse Search
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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 46: negro conditions during the Civil War (search)
operty, before long the Eastern, the Middle and the Western armies with little reasoning or open discussion caught the fire of vigorous and unsparing war measures. True, under such orders, some slaves for a while were refettered after they had come within the Union lines, but in time press and people, officers and soldiers, with meager exceptions were united and with one voice said: The slaves of men in arms against the Government shall be forever free. General Butler in a letter to Simon Cameron, then Secretary of War, dated July 20, 1861, showed that he was in the advance. In this letter he afforded glimpses into camps and workshops where the implements of emancipation were being forged. These glimpses, next to those of the premature bivouac of John Brown, were the most fruitful sources yet put forth of agitation north and south, and later became the cause of remedial legislation. It appears that several regiments, by a sudden call of service, were taken away from Butler's
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Index (search)
77, 492; II, 181. Burt, Edwin, I, 115, 119. Buscho, Captain, II, 530. Bush, W. W., I, 173. Bushbeck, Adolph, 1, 350, 354, 364, 373, 481, 482, 484. Butler, B. F., I, 103, 131, 139, 189, 201; II, 137, 168, 170, 171, 174, 175, 186, 265. Butterfield, Daniel, I, 138, 333, 444, 467, 516, 572, 615; II, 553. Butts, Samuel A., II, 386. Buzzard Roost Gap, II, 504-506, Cade, Mr., II, 139. Caldwell, John C., I, 267, 300, 301, 309, 342. Callender, Franklin D., I, 67. Cameron, Simon, I, 139; II, 170. Canby, Edw. R. 8., II, 188, 216. Candy, Charles, I, 545. Cannon, LeGrand B., II, 175. Carlin, Wm. P., II, 146-148, 344. Carnot, Monsieur, II, 542. Carolinas,. March through, II, 101-159. Carroll, S. S., I, 101, 102, 137, 430. Casey, Silas, I, 170, 172, 177, 179, 182, 183, 190, 198, 211, 220, 229, 230, 232-234, 236. Cassville, Battle of, I, 528-538. Catlett, Lottie, I, 448. Catlett, Mr., I, 448, 449. Chamberlin, Frederick, II, 574.