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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore) 45 3 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 30 2 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore) 19 1 Browse Search
Col. John M. Harrell, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.2, Arkansas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 16 4 Browse Search
Col. John C. Moore, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 9.2, Missouri (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 13 1 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. 9 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 9 1 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 9 1 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 6 2 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 0 Browse Search
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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), Doc. 135.-the fight at Greenwood, Miss. (search)
one of the iron port-doors, weighing over one thousand six hundred pounds, and killed four and wounded eleven of the crew, and a few minutes afterward orders were received for the gunboat to withdraw from the fire. Notwithstanding the working force of the gun-crew was much reduced, the men composing it were promptly at work. The following night was a busy one. A thirty-pounder Parrott gun was taken from a gunboat and placed in a battery on land in front of our line, and to the west of Clayton's Slough, and a temporary fortification was built of cotton and earth, and pierced for one gun. The work was done in quietness and silence, and before daylight the battery was in readiness for work. It was scarcely a quarter of a mile from the rebel fort, and bore directly on their most valuable gun. But other matters were behind, so the day wore away without action. But on the thirteenth there was a day of hard fighting with artillery. Though the previous day had been one of inaction, t
Doc. 186.-Clayton's raid in Arkansas. A National account. Helena, Arkansas, May 15, 1863. Having f the Dubuque battery; all under command of Colonel Powell Clayton, Fifth Kansas cavalry, at present commandinurprised and defeated last fall by the Texans. Colonel Clayton stopped here with the First Indiana and the art the whole command at that place, and report to Colonel Clayton by message that afternoon. At six A. M. of thehorse, and we started for Taylor's Creek, where Colonel Clayton was to meet us, or remain to hear from us. Passge. Upon questioning him, we also learned that Colonel Clayton had fell back west of the bridge, and that thers their Majors, Sam Walker and T. W. Scudder. Col. Clayton arrived at Helena on the morning of the thirteenth, and the Fifth came in that night. Colonel Clayton drove the rebels back at Taylor's Creek and made good as to have beds; they admit they were beaten. Colonel Clayton defeated them at Taylor's Creek, with the First