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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories	71	1	Browse	Search
Elias Nason, McClellan's Own Story: the war for the union, the soldiers who fought it, the civilians who directed it, and his relations to them.	70	4	Browse	Search
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler	66	0	Browse	Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing)	57	1	Browse	Search
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee	52	0	Browse	Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 10: The Armies and the Leaders. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller)	50	0	Browse	Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2.	48	0	Browse	Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington	44	2	Browse	Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore)	44	4	Browse	Search
The Daily Dispatch: September 30, 1861., [Electronic resource]	36	0	Browse	Search
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ed breeches moved at his forward march; not a broad beaver wheeled at his word of command; no hand unclosed to receive a proffered musket. Patriotic appeal, hard swearing, and prick of bayonet had no effect upon these impracticable raw recruits; and the stout general gave them up in despair. We are inclined to believe that any attempt on the part of the Commander-in-chief of our army and navy to convert the good people of Massachusetts into expert slave-catchers, under the discipline of West Point and Norfolk, would prove as idle an experiment as that of General Putnam upon the Quakers. Thomas Carlyle on the slave question. [1846.] A late number of Fraser's Magazine contains an article bearing the unmistakable impress of the Anglo-German peculiarities of Thomas Carlyle, entitled, An Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question, which would be interesting as a literary curiosity were it not in spirit and tendency so unspeakably wicked as to excite in every right-minded reader

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