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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 38 0 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 4 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 1 1 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The causes of the war [from the Sunday News, Charleston, S. C., November 28, 1897.] (search)
e Governor of Vermont, who deservedly was threatened with prosecution for having held back the troops which his country needed in time of war. The Legislature of Massachusetts forbade the use of the jails to confine British prisoners of war and ordered the jailors to release them. It may be noted that while New England refused to furnish troops, and the rest of the North was lukewarm, the South Carolina generals, Wade Hampton, the grandfather of our own immortal Hampton, and General Ralph Izard were battling on the Canadian frontier, a thousand miles from their State, to protect the homes of New York and New England, the apathy of whose men, however, made the efforts of the South Carolina generals almost unavailing. In more than one instance one-half of the American force was beaten under the eyes of the other, which could not be induced to move till it was time to run away. General Hull, Governor of Michigan, surrendered an army of 2,500 Americans to a force of 60