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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 211 5 Browse Search
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac 174 24 Browse Search
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 107 1 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 63 1 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 47 5 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore) 42 34 Browse Search
A. J. Bennett, private , First Massachusetts Light Battery, The story of the First Massachusetts Light Battery , attached to the Sixth Army Corps : glance at events in the armies of the Potomac and Shenandoah, from the summer of 1861 to the autumn of 1864. 38 6 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 37 7 Browse Search
Jubal Anderson Early, Ruth Hairston Early, Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early , C. S. A. 37 3 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 36 10 Browse Search
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s of the board. Proceedings of the Federal Congress. Washington May 28. --Senate--Mr. Sumner (Mass.) offered an amendment as a new section, providing "that any person who shall claim the he larger portion of the South was to tax cotton. On the suggestion of several Senators, M Sumner modified his amendment, so as to be in the language of the amendment offered by the Senator frome said tax." It further provides that this tax shall not apply to service due to patents. Mr. Sumner, in reply to Mr. Sherman, said we might as well tax the slaveholder as the auctioneer, or any me of the most courteous men he had ever met were slaveholders. He offered as an amendment to Mr. Sumner's amendment a proposition to tax cotton one cent per pound. Mr. King (N. Y.) was in favorMr. King) knew it, he would not come here and talk about her citizens resisting that law. Mr. Sumner said this was not a tax on slaves but on slave-masters. The Senator from Ohio had divided his