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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: April 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], Progress of the war. (search)
r the repulse of the Northern troops from Maryland. Intimation was this morning thrown out that the important work of fortifying the heights surrounding the city is to be commenced forthwith, and would be persecuted with every means at their disposal. Experienced engineers are said to be now engaged in selecting and surveying the most eligible defensive points. The rumor which was most eagerly repeated this forenoon, and which occasioned unbounded satisfaction, was, in effect, that Jeff. Davis was rapidly advancing northward, at the head of 100,000 troops, and might be expected at Richmond, or its vicinity, in the course of a few days. The advance guard of this force — comprising 5,000 South Carolinian--are expected, it is said in this connection, to reach Norfolk in a day or two at farthest. --The rumor was based upon a private letter from well-informed Southern sources, received, it is said, by a merchant of this city. The necessity of some such aid from the South to en
The Daily Dispatch: April 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], Seward's letter to Gov. Hicks. (search)
also, the whole cost of the war would fall upon her treasury.--Union with the Confederate States brings military co-operation at the same time that it brings a division of the expenses of the war. The latest advices from Montgomery represent President Davis as ready to proceed to Richmond, and to march from twenty to fifty thousand Confederate troops into the State so soon as this Commonwealth becomes a part of the Confederacy. The annexation would secure the immediate co-operation of this forle, in despite of the opposition and stubborn resistance of Tories. The stoppage of the public works of the State will throw large numbers of laborers our of employment, and thus supply a valuable addition to the personnel of the army.--President Davis might obtain some fifteen hundred or two thousand recruits for his regular army from this source, who might be taken to the vacated barracks at Lexington and drilled in a few weeks into well disciplined regiments. The negroes released from