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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 7 1 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 2 2 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 0 Browse Search
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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 51: (search)
hing their proceedings, instantly became an object of suspicion, and she was watched until some movement betrayed a place of concealment. The fresh earth recently thrown up, a bed of flowers just set out, the slightest indication of a change in appearance or position, all attracted the gaze of these military agriculturists. It was all fair spoil of war, and the search made one of the excitements of the march. The Story of the Great March, from the Diary of a Staff Officer. By Brevet Major George Ward Nichols, aid-de-camp to General Sherman. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1865, pp. 112 et seq. The author of the work from which the foregoing is an extract was an aide-de-camp on the staff of General Sherman. The playful manner in which he describes these habitual acts of plunder of plate, jewelry, and other rich goods from private and undefended dwellings, shows that not only was such conduct not forbidden by the military authorities, but that it was permitted and applauded, that it wa
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Index (search)
tion, 31, 32. Battle of, 490. Nashville (steamer), 221-22, 237. Negroes. Admission to citizenship, 615-16. Nelson, General, 50, 57, 449. Judge, 406. New Hope Church, Battle of, 469. New Ironsides (warship), 175. New Market, Battle of, 444-45. New Orleans, La. Harbor defense, 177-79, 180-82, 183, 186, 187. Evacuation, 182, 188-89. Occupation, by Butler, 195. New York. Subversion of state government, 402-15. Suspension of writ of habeas corpus, 409-11. Nichols, Maj., George Ward. Description of Federal looting, 537-38. Noland, Major B. P., 571. Norfolk, Evacuation, 74-75. Norfolk Navy Yard, 169-70. Attempted destruction, 164. Removal of machinery, etc., 170. Norris, William, 171. North, Colonel, 414-15. North, The. Lack of comprehension of impending war. 4. North Carolina. Reconstruction, 623-25. North Carolina (frigate), 171. Northrop, Colonel, 571. O Odium, Capt. F. H., 199, 200, 201. Report on battle of Sabine Pass, 199. O'H