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Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 34 0 Browse Search
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James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen 32 0 Browse Search
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders. 32 0 Browse Search
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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1 30 0 Browse Search
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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 28 0 Browse Search
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Wiley Britton, Memoirs of the Rebellion on the Border 1863., Chapter 19: (search)
measure would not absolutely stop their depredations and raids into Kansas, for they generally stop during the day at some isolated and lonelyement. I should like to see not only Fort Scott, but every town in Kansas through which Colonel Phillips passes, give him a warm welcome. Not Blunt by the time it reaches the Neosho River. The Fourteenth Kansas cavalry is being recruited very rapidly, and in a few weeks will beant-Colonel of the regiment. Two or three companies raised in Southern Kansas for this regiment have already been doing escort duty for sevefering larger bounties for enlistments than the Government allows. Kansas at present is unable to offer any State bounty. In the east there illa force, would attack it about the time it would cross over into Kansas, Captain Harvey, of the Sixth Kansas cavalry, with a detachment of sertions than our armies have. It is now generally thought that Kansas will not be obliged to draft any men, under any former calls of th
Wiley Britton, Memoirs of the Rebellion on the Border 1863., Chapter 20: (search)
the guerillas break up into small detachments Kansas needs a State Militia looking around for somein Missouri for a distance of forty miles from Kansas folly of the scheme Generals Cooper and Cabeere informed, a few hours after he passed into Kansas, of the fact, I am yet unable to understand who warn Lawrence that Quantrell had passed into Kansas, and might be moving in that direction. But that on the plan of the Missouri State troops. Kansas needs a State militia organization just as muc insist that it is the duty of the citizens of Kansas to assemble at some point and march into Misso house left standing within a hundred miles of Kansas. This remark was suggested: Gentlemen, if youd fight. A mass meeting of the citizens of Kansas is to take place at Paola in a few days, for tmust express my belief that the politicians of Kansas are inclined to make political capital out of nd then, at their leisure, can make raids into Kansas, or into the counties east of the border count[2 more...]
Wiley Britton, Memoirs of the Rebellion on the Border 1863., Chapter 21: (search)
exceedingly stupid or careless of his duty, to permit such a large force as Quantrell had to organize in the center of his Department, and march forty miles into Kansas without being pursued by our troops. Unless he can completely destroy Quantrell's force immediately, which is now perhaps an impossibility, the people of this Stg this Grand Army of Invasion, should bring with them fifteen days rations, blankets and complete equipments for the field. Though General Lane is a great man in Kansas, and has great influence over her citizens, and could probably by his eloquence persuade many of them to follow him right up to the cannon's mouth, yet there are f the escort will, however, understand the necessity of being extremely vigilant. The politicians of this State are clamoring for a new department, to embrace Kansas and the Indian country. Senator Lane will probably prevail upon President Lincoln, to direct the Secretary of War to issue the necessary orders at an early day.
Wiley Britton, Memoirs of the Rebellion on the Border 1863., Chapter 22: (search)
nvaded Missouri, with a force of about two thousand men and three pieces of light artillery, and are marching northward, he will probably remain here a week or so, to make such disposition of his troops as will best protect the border counties of Kansas. This being a large depot of army supplies, and only a few miles from the State line, it is thought that Shelby may turn aside and attack us here in a few days. But we have one battery, beside four twenty-four pound siege guns, and troops enoun recognition of his well-known abilities, General Lyon, in July, 1861, authorized him to raise the regiment to which he belongs. He worked more industriously and persistently in organizing and drilling his regiment than any other officer in it. Kansas may well be proud of him. Senator Lane made a big speech from the balcony of the Wilder House on the evening of the 24th, to a large audience. He discussed the political issues of tile day, the prospect of the early collapse of the Confedera
Wiley Britton, Memoirs of the Rebellion on the Border 1863., Chapter 23: (search)
ccession. A cold wave right from the arctic regions struck southern Kansas on the morning of the 12th, and already there are reports of gak northwest winds by heavy forests and bluffs, as it was in northwestern Kansas. Nor can the refugees here make great wood fires, like the go to work at once. The two colored regiments already raised from Kansas, have taken but a small proportion of the able-bodied colored men w they leave. Most of the escort belongs to the Fourteenth Regiment Kansas cavalry, recently organized, and as a large number of the men have living in that State, or scattered in this and adjacent counties of Kansas. The money they send home will therefore have to be trusted in thematter up, it would have been a good investment for the citizens of Kansas to have taken hold of and completed at an early day. The business wher than submit to rebel rule, he withdrew his forces towards southern Kansas, and nearly all his people followed him and became voluntary e
Wiley Britton, Memoirs of the Rebellion on the Border 1863., Chapter 24: (search)
e jingling of sleigh-bells reminded us that we were approaching our Kansas mid-winter. From the statements of those who have lived in this vio give satisfaction to the factions in Missouri and the factions in Kansas, is more than any intelligent person should expect. That Presidentned here, have prevented any serious inroads of the enemy into southern Kansas. Our people in this and adjoining counties have therefore purg to attack us here, or is making preparations for a raid into Southern Kansas. It is reported that Quantrell has threatened to visit this Sy movement, and who came here under the Territorial regime, to make Kansas a slave State. Nearly all the old pro-slavery element is of coursemiles south of this post, we have no other troops stationed in Southern Kansas, and the pressure from Missouri having pushed the enemy into tear is now drawing to a close. The border counties of Missouri and Kansas are comparatively free of guerrillas; and the forces of Coffey and
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), General Stuart in camp and field. (search)
, he resigned his commission and came to his native State, where he was put in command of the First Regiment of Cavalry,operating on the Upper Potomac. He had been prominent, at this time, in only one scene attracting public attention. This was in 1859, at Harper's Ferry, where he was directed by General, then Colonel, R. E. Lee to summon John Brown to surrender. He recognized Brown, then passing as Captain Smith, as soon as the engine-house door was half opened, as an old acquaintance in Kansas, and advised him to surrender, which Brown declined doing, adding, You know, lieutenant, we are not afraid of bullets, when Stuart stepped aside, and the attack and capture of the old marauder followed. In a sketch so limited as the present, it is impossible to more than refer to the main points in Stuart's career as a soldier. From the first, his cavalry operations were full of fire and vigor, and General J. E. Johnston, under whom he served in the Valley, called him the indefatigable
Robert Lewis Dabney, Life and Commands of Lieutenand- General Thomas J. Jackson, Chapter 5: secession. (search)
ix a stigma of subjection upon us, your constitutional equals? Is it to teach us significantly that henceforth we are to be your slaves? But the odious construction was generally adopted by the North; and at length, even the author of the law, Senator Douglas, deserted his own ground, and accepted it, becoming thus the leader of the larger number of Northern Democrats. The long course of usurpation and aggression has now been traced near to its culminating point. The lawless events in Kansas helped to illustrate these differences, and to embitter the passions; but their description need not detain us. Meantime, the children of the South may say with pride and truth, that, on their side, the covenant of the Confederation was always observed. There have been at the South many corrupt, and some factious persons. Individuals have often asserted Southern rights in an intemperate, and sometimes in a wicked mode. But it will ever remain the glory of the South, that in no instance di
Thomas C. DeLeon, Four years in Rebel capitals: an inside view of life in the southern confederacy, from birth to death., Chapter 1: the forehead of the storm. (search)
the influence the lobby and its workings had in hastening that inevitable, the war between the states? Into this outer circle whirled that smaller element which came to the Capital to spend money — not to make it. Diamonds flash, point lace flounces flaunt! Who will stop that mighty whirligig to inspect whether the champagne is real, or the turtle is prime? Allons! le jeu est fait! Camp-followers and hangers — on of Congress, many of its members from the West, claim agents from Kansas, husbandless married women from California and subterranean politicians from everywhere herein found elements as congenial as profitable. All stirred into the great olla podrida and helped to Make the hell broth boil and bubble. The inner circle was the real society of Washington. Half submerged for half of each year by accumulating streams of strangers, it ever rose the same-fresh and unstained by deposit from the baser flood. Therein, beyond doubt, one found the most cultured coterie
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Chapter 3: a cavalry officer of the army of the United States. (search)
lap and on my bed; he follows me all about the house and stands at the door in an attitude of defiance at all passing dogs. In the November following he was in Kansas, having been temporarily detached from his regiment and detailed to serve as a member of a court-martial ordered to convene to try an assistant surgeon of the arms while a drop of blood remains and by hanging, if you must. Nine years afterward in Virginia the rope was placed in uncomfortable proximity to his own neck. Kansas when a Territory, and an applicant for admission to the American Union, was made the abolition battlefield; John Brown went there, of course, for agitation was th to danger, he at once volunteered as aid-de-camp to Lee, asked and received permission to accompany him, and was the first to recognize Brown, having seen him in Kansas. Afterward he became the great cavalry chieftain of the Army Lee commanded. The prisoners at Harper's Ferry were at once turned over to the United States Distri
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