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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. 62 2 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. 62 2 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 52 0 Browse Search
Thomas C. DeLeon, Four years in Rebel capitals: an inside view of life in the southern confederacy, from birth to death. 37 1 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 30 0 Browse Search
John Dimitry , A. M., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.1, Louisiana (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 23 1 Browse Search
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 21 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 14 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 11 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 11 1 Browse Search
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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 1: (search)
st serious danger to be apprehended was from the line of the Potomac, the first conflicts occurred in the east. The narrow peninsula between the James and York rivers had topographical features well adapted to defense. It was held by General John B. Magruder, who skillfully improved its natural strength by artificial means; there, on the ground memorable as the field of the last battle of the Revolution, in which General Washington compelled Lord Cornwallis to surrender, Magruder, with a smafirst conflicts occurred in the east. The narrow peninsula between the James and York rivers had topographical features well adapted to defense. It was held by General John B. Magruder, who skillfully improved its natural strength by artificial means; there, on the ground memorable as the field of the last battle of the Revolution, in which General Washington compelled Lord Cornwallis to surrender, Magruder, with a small force, held for a long time the superior forces of the enemy in check.
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 6: (search)
: one, under General J. E. Johnston, at Harpers Ferry, covering the valley of the Shenandoah; another, under General P. G. T. Beauregard, at Manassas, covering the direct approach from Washington to Richmond; the third, under Generals Huger and Magruder, at Norfolk and on the peninsula between the James and York rivers, covering the approach to Richmond from the seaboard. The first and second of these armies, though separated by the Blue Ridge, had such practicable communication with each otsmall arms by the people of the South was a substitute for military training, and, on the other hand, how the want of such training made the Northern new levies inferior to the like kind of Southern troops. A detached work on the right of General Magruder's line was occupied June 11, 1861, by the First Regiment of North Carolina Volunteers and three hundred sixty Virginians under the command of an educated, vigilant, and gallant soldier, then Colonel D. H. Hill, First Regiment North Carolina
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 12: (search)
dry at Rome, Georgia, was induced to undertake the casting of the three-inch iron rifle, but the progress was very slow. The state of Virginia possessed a number of old four-pounder iron guns which were reamed out to get a good bore, and rifled with three groves, after the manner of Parrott. The army at Harpers Ferry and that at Manassas were supplied with old batteries of six-pounder guns and twelve-pounder howitzers. A few Parrott guns, purchased by the state of Virginia, were with General Magruder at Big Bethel. For the ammunition and equipment required for the infantry and artillery, a good laboratory and workshop had been established at Richmond. The arsenals were making preparations for furnishing ammunition and knapsacks; generally, however, what little was done in this regard was for local purposes. Such was the general condition of ordnance and ordnance stores in May, 1861. The progress of development, however, was steady. A refinery of saltpeter was established n
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Index (search)
haniel, 9. Madison, James, 19, 48, 57, 86, 89, 94, 103, 109, 112, 117, 127, 135, 136, 138-39, 147, 161,219. Advocation of U. S. Constitution, 87, 94, 105-06, 113-14, 144. Remarks on sovereignty, 122. Opposition to armed force against states, 150. Extracts from speech on sectional inter-ests, 158. Drawing of Virginia resolutions, 160-61. Magoffin, Gov. B. (of Kentucky). Correspondence with Lincoln and Davis on status of Kentucky, 333-36. Reply to U. S. call for troops, 354. Magruder, Gen. John B., 296, 297, 406. Checking enemy, 260. Maine, 63. Mallory, S. R., 175, 189, 272. Selected secretary of navy (Confederacy), 207. Manassas, Battle of. Preparation for, 300. Conflict, 302-05, 311-12. After the battle, 306, 310-11. Beauregard's plan for defense and the endorsement, 319-21. Extracts from narrative of Gen. Early, 322-28. Extract from reminiscences of Col. Lay, 329. Maney, —, 352. Marshall, John, 114, 151, 219. Extracts from speeches, 139-40.