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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2 1,039 11 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 833 7 Browse Search
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1 656 14 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 580 0 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 459 3 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 435 13 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 355 1 Browse Search
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders. 352 2 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 333 7 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 330 2 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: October 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], Candidates for Congress in North Carolina. (search)
eir leisure on their utter disregard of the wishes of the people in their doings. The astounding disregard of popular sentiment, definitely shown, has been the chief feature in the Secession movement, and Maryland has only escaped the worst consequences of it by the firm action of the Governor in the first instance, and now by the interposition of the strong hand of the General Governments. The people of the State, the vast majority of them, will "breathe freer" for this. Should Mr. Jefferson Davis, or any of his lieutenants, now presume to invade the State, there will not be even the color of right; and any endeavor at "conquest," as proposed in Kentucky, will be met as it deserves. In view of all that has been presented, we cannot doubt but that, as a State, we have had the narrowest possible escape; and no sympathy as, therefore, due those who have been defeated in their cherished purpose to plunge us into all the evils attendant on civil war. Expeditions for the Southe
The Daily Dispatch: October 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], Handsome present. (search)
Sunday, says: Capt. Ben. F. Egan arrived in our city yesterday, direct from Smithland, and gives us information in regard to the landing of the Hessians, which he witnessed. The steamer Empress came up the Ohio river on Tuesday evening, 24th inst., with a regiment of infantry, and a company of cavalry, Federal troops, who disembarked and quietly took possession of the town. The citizens made no resistance; the women and children, however, welcomed them with oft-repeated cheers for Jeff. Davis. The officer issued no proclamation, nor held any communication whatever with the citizens. The entire command were evidently in great fear and alarm, and one hundred determined men could have put the whole pack of them to flight. Capt. Egan informs us that there are only 8,500 hogs at Paducah, and that they are in constant fear and alarm of an attack, and that they have fortified themselves by digging a ditch on one side of the town, and a bridge of boats over the river to secure