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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: November 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], Terms of the Dispatch. (search)
ained. The Federal force therefore started from Cairo in gun-boats and transports, and approached to a point seven miles above Columbus, where a bend in the river afforded an opportunity for a stealthy landing. Here they disembarked and marched down upon Belmont, and attacked Gen. Pillow; but notwithstanding the great disparity in numbers, they were held in check for two hours, until our boats crossed with reinforcements. From the advices thus far received, which were communicated to President Davis by telegraph from Columbus, the fight must have been obstinate on both sides; but, as in every previous engagement of any note, where the enemy had not the advantage of naval assistance, victory rewarded the exertions of the brave and gallant Southron. The Federals were completely routed, and pursued back to their boats, while the road for a distance of seven miles was strewn with the evidences of rapid flight. This victory is important, not only from the moral effect of such an event
The Daily Dispatch: November 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], Virginia and the Confederacy. (search)
ch produced all the master statesmen and warriors of America should be subject to the civilization which is only prolific of shop men and pedlars; that the owners of a soil which brings forth all the great staples of American commerce should be hewers of wood and drawers of water to the trafficking and manufacturing dwellers of a soil which yields nothing that mankind cannot easily dispense with that the institutions property, and civil, social, and political right of half the American States should be overthrown, despoiled, and annihilated by the other half. The only thing that Scott considers "unnatural and unjust" in this "rebellion," as he calls it, is that Jeff. Davis is President of the Southern Confederacy. If any other man save his old and hated enemy had filled that position, and Scott had been offered the command-in-chief of the Southern Army, with the Federal salary for that office, he would now be airing his gout, dropsy, and vertigo in Richmond instead of Washington.