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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 604 2 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 570 8 Browse Search
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade) 498 4 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 456 2 Browse Search
William A. Crafts, Life of Ulysses S. Grant: His Boyhood, Campaigns, and Services, Military and Civil. 439 3 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 2: Two Years of Grim War. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 397 3 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. 368 6 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 368 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 334 0 Browse Search
Owen Wister, Ulysses S. Grant 330 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: July 18, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
who came down the Potomac last Tuesday states that the river was literally alive with transports, loaded with troops, on their way to Washington. This shows that Grant has detached a considerable portion of his army from the front of Petersburg, for the defence of the Yankee Capital. The latest. Just before ten o'clock laevery evidence of Yankee vindictiveness, but they failed to have any effect beyond annoying the non combatants. It was currently reported yesterday that Ulysses S. Grant, the much overrated Yankee General, had taken his departure from this sublunary sphere, in other words, that he had died from the effects of the amputation oho will be the next commander of the Grand Army of the Potomac, for Yankeedom will find it a matter of difficulty to trump up a General with the bulldog courage of Grant. Evacuation of Williamsburg and Yorktown. The report of the evacuation of Williamsburg and Yorktown by the Yankees is confirmed by a gentleman who recentl
The Daily Dispatch: July 18, 1864., [Electronic resource], Later from Europe. (search)
Later from Europe. --European advices are to the 30th ult. The Prussians have captured the Island of Alsund. The London Times regards Grant's last move — the crossing of James river — as "a practical admission of failure," and gives various considerations to show that his task is as difficult as ever. It is positively stated that two Confederate steamers are waiting for the Kearsarge to come out of Cherbour
The Daily Dispatch: July 18, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
am not fully prepared to demonstrate. To understand the last rebel incursion fully, it is necessary for one to revert to the series of operations by which Gen. Grant, leaving the bloody fields of Spotsylvania Court House, cut his way through Virginia, and after a short but sanguinary conflict on the banks of the Chickahominythat river. During this perilous match across a hostile country it was thought pretty generally that the enemy would impede our progress southward, and prevent Gen. Grant from reaching the point he had set down in his plan as his objective. But to our great surprise nothing of the kind occurred. The roads to the James were invie available forces of the North on the south of the James, far from being dangerous to the rebel cause, was one of the luckiest events of the war. It compelled General Grant to lose in a series of siege operations time which might have been usefully employed in active campaigning, gave to the exhausted forces of the rebels an oppor
The Daily Dispatch: July 18, 1864., [Electronic resource], The movements on Charleston. (search)
lesville and moved toward Sertsville and the railroad. Early's corps came toward Washington on the Seventh street road, and it was understood that Hill's corps moved toward Washington on a line west of Early's corps. He saw about seven thousand of eight thousand rebels, and thinks there were more than that number that he did not see. He conversed with the rebel General Johnson and other rebel officers, and thinks it was not their intention to take Washington, but to divert the attention of Grant from Richmond, and to destroy the products of the country, which they have succeeded in doing to the amount of one million bushels of grain. They were earnestly praying for dry weather to enable them to re- cross the Potomac without trouble. Johnson had seven pieces of artillery, but did not see any with Early. The Chronicle reports our forces to have retreated from before Washington. It says: At an early hour yesterday morning the rebels fell back from their position north