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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1 115 1 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 24 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 16 2 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore) 15 1 Browse Search
L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion 14 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 I. 11 1 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 10 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 8 0 Browse Search
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 8 0 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 7 3 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: March 3, 1864., [Electronic resource], Exhibiting faro. (search)
Exhibiting faro. --About the 9th of February last the Mayor issued a warrant to search a certain house located on Main street, between 12th and 13th, which was believed to be a gambling establishment, under the proprietorship of William H. Duke, of this city. The search was promptly made by Capt. Pleasants and Officer John Davis. The result of the investigation made by the police proved that on their forcing an entrance into the building Duke and Turpin fled to an adjoining house, that when they were pursued and captured Duke stooped down and placed something on the floor, which proved to be a "dealing box;" that in the room from which the two men fled were found a faro table ready spread, with chips, cards, &c., laid out, and that everything indicated that a game was in progress when the raid was made. Before the Mayor the following evidence was given yesterday: Angus Lyon was sworn, but upon being interrogated by the Mayor as to whether he had ever seen the game of far