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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 I., chapter 26 (search)
the public property in Texas to the State authorities. All of these events had been accomplished without bloodshed. Abolitionism and Fanaticism had not yet lapped blood. But reflecting men saw that the peace was deceitful and temporizing; that the temper of the North was impatient and dark; and that, if all history was not a lie, the first incident of bloodshed would be the prelude to a war of monstrous proportions. with arms and munitions with direct reference to this contingency. Mr. E. Pollard, aforesaid, writing his Southern History of the struggle at Richmond, after having been in public employment at Washington throughout Buchanan's Administration, himself one of the original traitors, and always in their counsels, says: It had been supposed that the Southern people, poor in manufactures as they were, and in the haste for the mighty contest that was to ensue, would find themselves but illy provided with arms to contend with an enemy rich in the means and munitions of w
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—the first autumn. (search)
ether neglected. A few creatures of Mr. Davis, occupying important positions, embarrassed the commissary department by their incapacity. The army of Virginia was in want of horses and means of transportation; these indispensable resources for a campaign were only furnished in a dilatory and incomplete manner. The operations which it might have attempted either on the line of the Potomac or in West Virginia, while the Federal army was yet unable to move quickly, were thus paralyzed, and Mr. Pollard, the historian of the Confederates, a writer equally earnest and sincere in behalf of the South, has not hesitated to say that the victory of Bull Run was a great misfortune for her cause. Along the immense line which separated the hostile parties, from the Atlantic to the prairies of the far West, however, the effect produced by the conflict of July 21st was less felt in proportion to the distance from the spot which had witnessed it. The State of Missouri especially, situated beyond
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book V:—the first winter. (search)
march, in positions which were very strong and with only a portion of their troops. The retreat of the Confederates had been troublesome, for the weather was frightful and the roads extremely broken up. But the very obstacles they encountered rendered pursuit impossible for their adversaries. Johnston stopped at Murfreesborough, about fifty-two kilometres from Nashville, where he was joined by Crittenden, and found himself at the head of an army able to make head against the Federals. Pollard only gives Johnston seventeen thousand men, but Stevenson, who was present, ciphers up nearly sixty thousand men; it is probable that the truth lies between the two figures, and that he could muster nearly forty thousand effective men. The latter took good care not to go in search of him. In the mean while, the Confederates, in pursuance of Johnston's instructions, had abandoned Columbus a few days after the evacuation of Nashville, thus giving up the whole State of Kentucky. The fate o
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Bibliographical note (search)
my, by Stevenson, one volume; The Volunteer Quartermaster, one volume; History of the United States Cavalry, by Brackett, one volume; a large number of technical papers in the American Cyclopaedia, a work in four volumes; Political History of the Rebellion, by McPherson, one volume; Life of Abraham Lincoln, by Raymond, one volume; The American Conflict, by Horace Greeley, two volumes. Among the Confederate publications to which we are indebted, we must mention, above all, the works of Mr. E. Pollard: The First, Second, and Third Year of the War, three volumes, The Lost Cause, one volume, and Lee and his Lieutenants, one volume; the works of Mr. Esten Cooke: Life of General Lee, one volume, Life of Stonewall Jackson, one volume, and Wearing of the Grey, one volume; and, finally, The Southern Generals, anonymous, one volume. The number of works published by Europeans possessing real interest is very limited; it will be enough to mention the remarkable work of M. Vigo Roussillion on
The Daily Dispatch: November 30, 1864., [Electronic resource], Murder of a conscript guard. (search)
Murder of a conscript guard. --On Monday night last, about 9 o'clock, Ambrose E. Pollard, a member of the Virginia reserves, detailed for conscript service in Hanover county, was shot and killed while sitting in his house with his family. The assassin fired through the window, killing Mr. Pollard instantly. Murder of a conscript guard. --On Monday night last, about 9 o'clock, Ambrose E. Pollard, a member of the Virginia reserves, detailed for conscript service in Hanover county, was shot and killed while sitting in his house with his family. The assassin fired through the window, killing Mr. Pollard instantly.