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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 70 4 Browse Search
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. 40 4 Browse Search
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 29 1 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 28 2 Browse Search
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac 25 3 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 22 0 Browse Search
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 19 9 Browse Search
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War 18 0 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 16 0 Browse Search
A. J. Bennett, private , First Massachusetts Light Battery, The story of the First Massachusetts Light Battery , attached to the Sixth Army Corps : glance at events in the armies of the Potomac and Shenandoah, from the summer of 1861 to the autumn of 1864. 16 0 Browse Search
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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—the Third winter. (search)
e battery of artillery was posted on the shore, and, supported by skilful sharpshooters, its fire obliged the Union sailors, deprived of all assistance, to jump overboard and swim for the beach to surrender. Taught by this experience, the blockading fleet contented itself, when the Venus went aground, with destroying it with cannon-shot. The enumeration of the expeditions undertaken inland will be brief. From the 24th-30th of June several vessels, ascending the Pamunkey River, supported Keyes' demonstration against Richmond, of which we have spoken in the preceding volume. On the 22d of August a dash skilfully executed by Lieutenant Cushing—whose gallantry we have again occasion to mention—ensured the destruction of a hostile schooner, the Alexander Cooper, at New Topsail Inlet, near Wilmington. Cushing, causing a yawl to be carried by hand over the sandhills, embarked with seven men, proceeded on the inland waters, surprised the Confederates, made ten of them prisoners, and de