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Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 95 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 54 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 I. 49 3 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 44 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 40 0 Browse Search
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary 38 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 36 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 35 5 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 1. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 34 6 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 22 2 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: January 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National crisis. (search)
war. They left here in the 4 o'clock. Western train, and during their brief stay in the Monumental City were visited by a number of our military. Balt. American. Garrisoning Fort Washington. The Alexandria Gazette, of Monday says much excitement was created in that city on Saturday night, from the Government ordering a garrison to Fort Washington, a few miles below Alexandria, which for several years has been unoccupied. Col. Stuart, of the 175th regiment, immediately informed Gov. Letcher that a body of Federal troops had passed through the jurisdiction of Virginia, for the purpose indicated. Fort Washington is a bastioned work, inaccessible to escalade in the rear, and protected from assault in front by a ditch, which is commanded in all its parts by flank fires of grape and cannister. The greater part, if not all, of its armament is understood to be at the work, and most of it is in position, ready for service, and the magazines is also understood to the amply supp
The Daily Dispatch: January 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], Story of the Supernatural. (search)
courtesy. They are natives of our beloved Commonwealth, and now return to her as the honored representatives of a Southern sister State. Give them a cordial welcome, hear them calmly, and weigh dispassionately the views they may present. John Letcher. The credentials above referred to are in the following form — the name of either commissioner being inserted where the blanks occur. They are dated at the Executive Department, Montgomery, Ala., Dec. 10th, 1860, and are addressed to Gov. Letcher: This will be handed you by — a distinguished citizen of Alabama, who has been appointed (in conjunction with.--) a Commissioner to the State of Virginia, for the purpose of consulting and advising with your Excellency and the members of your General Assembly, as to what is best to be done to protect the rights, interests, and honor of the slaveholding States in the emergency which has been forced upon them by the election of Abraham Lincoln to the Presidency of the United