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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 20 0 Browse Search
An English Combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery of the Field Staff., Battlefields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps. 12 0 Browse Search
James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley 12 0 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 10 0 Browse Search
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary 10 0 Browse Search
Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley 6 0 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2 6 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 6 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 6 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 6 0 Browse Search
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lorida narrowly escaped being run down by the Bell, having her fires, and the crew being so intensely engaged in transferring plunder as to neglect the management of the ship, which, with sails sat bore down on the Florida, the rigging of which had to be manned and the Bell shoved off. She was then abandoned and burned to the water's edge. The Florida carries six 8 pounders and two chasers 100-pounders. The crew number 160 all told. The officers are quite young, and the crew principally Irish, some of whom expressed a desire to leave her. Captain Maffit and officers showed them every attention, and seemed desirous of making them as comfortable as possible. Capt. Maffit mentioned having passed the Vanderbilt in pursuit of him; but being night and the Florida lying so low, with sails furied and smoke stack down, she was not discovered. A Bermuda paper, of the 28th ult, notices the arrival at St. George of the neutral British steamer Columbia, from Wilmington, N. C., with a ca