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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 II. 10 6 Browse Search
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches 8 4 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 4 0 Browse Search
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana 3 1 Browse Search
L. P. Brockett, Women's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience 3 3 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: December 10, 1861., [Electronic resource] 3 3 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 2 Browse Search
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 2 2 Browse Search
William A. Smith, DD. President of Randolph-Macon College , and Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy., Lectures on the Philosophy and Practice of Slavery as exhibited in the Institution of Domestic Slavery in the United States: withe Duties of Masters to Slaves. 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: December 28, 1864., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XV: journeys (search)
e South African war and although he ordinarily felt under bonds to keep silence, all of Colonel Higginson's sympathies were with the Boers. Nothing, he wrote, ever revives my innate republicanism better than coming to England. The next step was to Winchester, the capital of the ancient kingdom of Alfred the Great, to what they call the millenary celebration (1000th anniversary of King Alfred's death), probably so called because they all go in finery and I am to represent Harvard, by President Eliot's appointment. A London letter thus described this event:— I enjoyed greatly my trip to Winchester . . . a speech of my own was received most warmly by the English delegates and officials, and was more effusive than is my wont. It is hard not to be so here, for no one in America can appreciate the warmth and width of the feeling in England about the President's [McKinley] death. No European sovereign's death has ever called forth so much, they say-meetings and mourning, flags