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Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 204 0 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 144 2 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. 113 11 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 93 1 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. 73 3 Browse Search
Robert Lewis Dabney, Life and Commands of Lieutenand- General Thomas J. Jackson 60 12 Browse Search
Jubal Anderson Early, Ruth Hairston Early, Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early , C. S. A. 60 6 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 55 15 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 51 3 Browse Search
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War 42 18 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: August 31, 1861., [Electronic resource], The French tobacco supply. (search)
solution of the matter, and shows that the overconfidence of Old Abe in his power to subjugate the South by a given time to likely to involve him in a serious difficulty. The following is the article from the Propagateur: "The Reason Why McDowell was in such Haste to Give Battle at Manassas. -- McDowell acknowledges, in that he hastened to give battle at Manassas before all his plans were well matured. He gives the reasons to justify his precipitancy, but there is another reason which McDowell acknowledges, in that he hastened to give battle at Manassas before all his plans were well matured. He gives the reasons to justify his precipitancy, but there is another reason which he has neglected to give, and which, nevertheless, deserves to be made public. If we are well informed — and we believe that we are — Lincoln had pledged himself to deliver the tobacco of Virginia to the French Government by the 1st of August on this condition, the French Government had authorized its agents to purchase. The rates were concluded, but with the express understanding that the Government at Washington would be prepared to deliver the tobacco on the 1st of August. 21st of