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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) 4 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 35. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore) 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli 4 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War 4 0 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. 2 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: August 27, 1864., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
Robert Lewis Dabney, Life and Commands of Lieutenand- General Thomas J. Jackson 2 0 Browse Search
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lains of Thessaly. By force or persuasion, one Greek nation after another had been brought beneath his yokee, until few remained but those who had fled to join the banner of their countrymen, still upheld by the unshrinking spirit of Sparta and Athens. But the forces of Greece, whenever brought into conflict with the Barbarian, had either been uniformly victorious, or had left an imperishable memorial of what courage and patriotism can do in a struggle even with the most tremendous odds. Leonidas and his three hundred Spartans had been slain at Thermopylaeæ; but the tyrant's fleet had been worsted at Ariminum, and utterly destroyed at Salamis. He himself had fled in dismay from the scene of conflict, leaving that huge army — the largest that the world ever beheld — to follow him in his flight; to die of hunger and disease; to pave with their bones the highways of Attica, of Thessaly, of Macedonia, and of Thrace, from the Piræus to the Hellespont. And now, with his prestige gone; w<