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Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 148 18 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 75 5 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 62 6 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 40 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 39 3 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 27 1 Browse Search
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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 3: political affairs.--Riots in New York.--Morgan's raid North of the Ohio. (search)
failure to report for duty at a military station within a certain time, he was liable to the penalty of death as a deserter. The history of civilized nations has no parallel to this despotic act. Davis and his fellow-conspirators had then reached a critical point in their wicked game, and seemed willing to sacrifice every man, ruin; every family, waste all the property in the Confederacy, and see their section: of the Republic converted into a wilderness See notice of the manifesto of Howell Cobb and Robert Toombs, note 2, page 471, volume II. in a desperate effort to win,, well knowing that failure would be ruin to themselves. They seemed to. regard the common people as of no account, excepting as docile instruments for the aggrandizement of the slave-holding Oligarchy. Let us now return to a consideration of the movements of the armies of Meade and Lee, which we left occupying opposite banks of the Potomac. See page 75. We will first turn aside for a moment to observe som
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 6: siege of Knoxville.--operations on the coasts of the Carolinas and Georgia. (search)
t of the attack was to drive in the National advance, and seize and hold the rifle-pits. Just after six o'clock the next morning Nov. 29, 1863. he opened a furious cannonade from his batteries in advance of Armstrong's. This was answered by Roemer's battery, on College Hill, and was soon followed by a tremendous yell from the Confederates, as they rushed forward at the double-quick to storm the fort. The storming party consisted of three brigades of General McLaws's division — Wolford's, Cobb's, and Phillips's, all Georgians; General Humphreys's brigade of Mississippians, and a brigade composed of the remains of Anderson's and Bryant's, consisting of South Carolina and Georgia regiments. The leader of the Mississippi troops was the present (1868) Governor Humphreys, of Mississippi. These were picked men, the flower of Longstreet's army; and, in obedience to orders, one brigade pressed forward to the close assault, two brigades supporting it, while two others watched the National
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 15: Sherman's March to the sea.--Thomas's campaign in Middle Tennessee.--events in East Tennessee. (search)
ches the National troops found no military resistance of any consequence, The Conspirator, Howell Cobb, who plotted treason while in Buchanan's cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury (see page 44, vns, not far from Milledgeville, and there received a Macon newspaper containing a proclamation by Cobb, in which he called upon his fellow white citizens to rise and defend their liberties and homes from the invader, and to burn and destroy every thing in his front, and assail him on all sides. Cobb had left the defense of his own home to his slaves, and had omitted the patriotic duty he enjoinedce others while sparing themselves. Major Nichols, who was with Sherman, thus wrote concerning Cobb: Becoming alarmed, Cobb sent for and removed all the able-bodied mules, horses, cows, and slaves.Cobb sent for and removed all the able-bodied mules, horses, cows, and slaves. He left here some fifty old men — cripples — and women and children, with nothing scarcely covering their nakedness, with little or no food, and without means of procuring it. A more forlorn, neglec
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 16: career of the Anglo-Confederate pirates.--closing of the Port of Mobile — political affairs. (search)
ware--Smithers; Maryland--Cresswell, Davis, Thomas, Webster; West Virginia--Blair, Brown, Whaley; Kentucky--Anderson, Kendall, Smith, Yeaman; Ohio--Ashley, Eckley, Garfield, Hutchins, Schenck, Spaulding; Indiana--Colfax, Derwent. Julian, Orth; Illinois--Arnold, Farnsworth, Ingersoll, Norton, E. B. Washburne; Missouri--Blow, Boyd, King, Knox, Loan, McClurg, Rollins; Michigan--Baldwin, Beaman, Driggs, Kellogg, Longyear, Upson; Iowa--Allison, Grinnell, Hubbard, Kasson, Price, Wilson; Wisconsin--Cobb, McIndoe, Sloan, Wheeler; Minnesota--Donnelly, Windom; Kansas--Wilder; Oregon--McBride; Nevada--Worthington; California--Cole, Higby, Shannon.--119. Fifteen of the above were Democrats. The nays were all Democrats, as follows: Maine--Sweat; New York--Brooks, Chanler, Kalbfleisch, Keirnan, Pruyn, Townsend, Ward, Winfield, B. Wood, F. Wood; New Jersey--Perry, Steele; Pennsylvania--Ancona, Dawson, Denison, Johnson, Miller, Randall, Styles, Strause; Maryland--Harris; Kentucky--Clay, Grider, H
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 19: the repossession of Alabama by the Government. (search)
ery thing before him, and captured the city, twelve hundred men, fifty-two field guns in position, and large quantities of small-arms and stores. He lost only twenty-four men in achieving this conquest. Among the killed was C. L. Lamar, of Howell Cobb's staff, formerly captain and owner of the Wanderer, a vessel engaged in the unlawful slave-trade, which was seized a few years before by a Government cruiser, but being taken into a southern port, evaded the penalties of the law. There Wilson) division moved from Columbus for the same destination, and Upton's marched the next day. Minty, accompanied by Wilson, arrived at Macon on the 20th, when the Confederate forces there surrendered without resistance; and Wilson was informed by Howell Cobb, of the surrender of Lee to Grant, and the virtual ending of the war. Hostile operations were then, suspended, in accordance with an arrangement between Sherman and Johnston, which we shall consider presently. La Grange rejoined the main co
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 22: prisoners.-benevolent operations during the War.--readjustment of National affairs.--conclusion. (search)
, near Anderson Station, on the Southwestern railroad, in Georgia, about sixty miles south from Macon, and surrounded by the richest of the cotton and corn-growing regions of that State. The site was selected, at the suggestion it is said of Howell Cobb, the commander of the District, by Captain W. S. Winder, son of the Confederate Commissary of prisoners. It comprised twenty-seven acres of land, with a swamp in its center. A choked and sluggish stream flowing out of another swamp, crawled tives, that officer, acting under higher authority, replied: That is just what I am not going to do! I will make a pen here for the damned Yankees, where they will rot faster than they can be sent. Spencer's Narrative of Andersonville. Howell Cobb issued orders for six hundred negroes to be impressed for the purpose of constructing a stockade around the designated inclosure. It received its first prisoners (soldiers of the New Hampshire, Connecticut, New Jersey and Michigan infantry),
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Index. (search)
oint, occupation of by Gen. Butler, 3.318. Clark, Daniel, resolutions of, in the Senate, 1.221. Clark, John B., expulsion of from Congress, 1.573. Clarkesville, capture of by Commodore Foote, 2.233. Clergy, Northern, appeal of, 1.75. Cleveland, convention at in 1864, 3.444. Cliffe, Mrs. V. C., patriotic services of, 3.423. Clingman, Senator, treasonable speech of, 1.78; rebuked by J. J. Crittenden, 1. 79; reply of Hale to, 1.79. Clouterville, battle near, 3.266. Cobb, Howell, inflammatory address of, 1.44; remarks on the character of (note), 2.471. Cochrane, John, amendment to the Constitution proposed by, 1.87. Coddington, D. S., speech of in New York, 1.357. Coercion, opinion of Attorney-General Black in relation to, 1.70. Columbia, excitement in at the election of Lincoln, 1.49; secession convention assembled at, 1.100; Sherman at, 3.460; the burning of, 3.461. Columbia, Ark., defeat of Marmaduke near, by Gen. A. J. Smith, 3.269. Columbia