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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Civil War in the United States. (search)
r that the time had arrived for them to put into the army every able-bodied negro as a soldier. —29. The United States steam-packet Roanoke, just after passing out of Havana, Cuba, admitted on board three boat-loads of men claiming to be passengers, who seized the vessel, put the passengers on board another vessel, went to Bermuda, burned the steamer there, and went ashore.—30. The Confederate General Vaughan driven out of his works at Carroll Station, Tenn., by General Gillem.—Oct. 3. John B. Meigs, Sheridan's chief engineer in the Shenandoah Valley, having been brutally murdered by some guerillas, all the houses within a radius of 5 miles were burned in retaliation.—6. A Richmond paper advocated the employment of slaves as soldiers.—7. Commander Collins, in the gunboat Wachusett, ran down and captured in the harbor of Bahia, Brazil, the Confederate cruiser Florida.—10. Maryland adopted a new constitution which abolished slavery.—12. It was announced that all the regimen