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Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Chapter 2 : birth.-career as officer of Engineers, United States army . (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1863 , June . (search)
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 11 : the Montgomery Convention .--treason of General Twiggs .--Lincoln and Buchanan at the Capital . (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 89 (search)
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 2 (search)
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The Daily Dispatch: April 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Ordinary keepers. (search)
From Texas. Galveston, April 11.
--It is reported that Federal troops have been left in Texas, with the view of concentrating at some given point.
The steamers Star of the West and Empire City are still off Indianola.
The Mexicans at Matamoras have planted cannon pointing towards Brownsville.
The Texas Legislature has passed a bill dividing the State into six Congressional districts.
Also, a bill for the issue of State bonds to the amount of $1,000,000, to be raised by a special tax.
The Daily Dispatch: September 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], An English officer killed by an elephant. (search)
United States movements in the Southwest.
--The San Antonio (Texas) Ledger, learns from the Noticiose of Matamoras, of the arrival of an American schooner, which brought as passengers two officers of the U. S. Army, who forthwith proceeded to make a reconnaissance of the country lying along the Rio Grande.
The Houston Telegraph, commenting on this, warns the people to prepare themselves for the approach of the invading foe, and believes it is the intention of the Lincoln Government to make an inroad upon them, with a view of immediately conquering all Texas west of San Antonio, and embracing the county of Gillespie and thence West and North.
They will land on the Southern coast and Mexico, and throw separate columns upon the country.
The reconnaissance of the Rio Grande by the enemy is a significant movement in connection with the apparent well established statement that Corwin, the United States Minister, has effected a treaty with Mexico, by which the privilege is c
The Daily Dispatch: September 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], Lively times Ahead. (search)
Sult.
A correspondent makes various suggestions in regard to procuring an ample supply of salt for the use of the Confederate States, all of which have been frequently presented to the public exceptions, which is that an agent be sent to Matamoras, Mexico, to procure and send it over the Rio Grande to Brownsville.
By the same plan, he thinks, leather and coffee could be obtained.