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Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 999 7 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 382 26 Browse Search
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac 379 15 Browse Search
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders. 288 22 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 283 1 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. 243 11 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 233 43 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. 210 2 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 200 12 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore) 186 12 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: July 25, 1863., [Electronic resource], The siege and fall of Vicksburg. (search)
this long period of suffering and anxiety, were not without hope of relief, but the hope was of that kind which being long deferred "maketh the heart sick." They well knew the importance of the place they were garrisoning and defending, and rumors would often arise which their own excited imaginations greatly magnified, that Johnston was moving on with a large army to their relief. At one time it would be generally current throughout the army that Johnston had an army of 100,000 men, that Longstreet was in that army, occupying the centre of it, as is the custom of that distinguished General, and even at times it would be imagined that the reports of friendly cannon were heard, and that Grant and his whole army would soon be swept away as with a besom of destruction. But no help could reach them. To add to the horrors of the siege some of the enemy's gunners took special pains to level their pieces at the buildings which were marked by yellow flags as hospitals. The shells, inde