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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1,788 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 514 0 Browse Search
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. 260 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 194 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 168 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore) 166 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition. 152 0 Browse Search
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 II. 150 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 132 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 122 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: January 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National crisis. (search)
h Brass Band, Robert Low leader, composed of colored men, serenaded the Mayor, Col. Lawton, and several other citizens. Several public and private buildings were illuminated. A division of the Territory. The New York Post makes up the following from the report of the Commissioner of the Land Office for 1860: Free States. Sq. Miles. Maine35,000 New Hampshire9,200 Vermont10,212 Massachusetts7,800 Rhode Island1,306 Connecticut4,750 New York47,000 New Jersey8,300 Pennsylvania46,000 Ohio39,964 Indiana33,800 Illinois55,410 Michigan56,451 Wisconsin53,924 Iowa55,045 Minnesota83,591 Oregon95,274 California188,981 832,717 Free Territo's. Kansas126,283 Nebraska342,488 Minnesota81,960 Wash'ton.193,071 Utah220,196 963,948 Sq. miles1,795,965 Population19,000,000 Slave States. Sq. Miles. Delaware2,120 Maryland11,124 Virginia61,362 North Carolina50,704 South Carolina34,000 Georgia58,000 Alabama50,700 Florida59,268 Kentucky37
The Daily Dispatch: January 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 14 (search)
The Military Force of Pennsylvania is about three hundred and fifty- five thousand men, of which nineteen thousand are uniformed volunteers. The arms of the State are all in the possession of volunteer companies, and comprise 22,030 muskets, &c., 4,706 rifles, &c., 2,809 cavalry swords and sabres, 3,147 pistols, &c., 69 pieces of ordnance, being six-pound brouze cannon. There are only about forty-two hundred of these small arms of the improved pattern, the others are old flint locks, good for nothing now. This does not present a very flattering picture of the efficiency of the militia, if suddenly called upon for service.
The Daily Dispatch: January 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], An Unsentimental Physician. (search)
ew England, in America. " "The territory, conferred on the patentees in absolute property, with unlimited jurisdiction, the sole powers of legislation, the appointment of all officers and all forms of government," extended in breadth from the 40th to the 48th degree of north latitude, and in length from the Atlantic to the Pacific — that is to say, nearly all the inhabited British possessions in the north of the United States, all New England, New York, half of New Jersey, very nearly all Pennsylvania, and the whole of the country west of these States, comprising, and at the time believed to comprise, much more than a million of square miles, capable of sustaining far more than two hundred millions of inhabitants, were, by a single signature of King James, given away to a single corporation within the realm, composed of but forty individuals. The grant was absolute and exclusive; it conceded the lands and islands, the rivers and harbors, the mines and the fisheries. Without the l
The Daily Dispatch: January 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], Sent off. (search)
epublican rule. His speech was an eloquent one for the Union. Mr. Lovejoy, of III., made a strong coercion and anti-compromise speech. The Speaker communicated the letters of withdrawal of the Georgia delegation. Mr. Montgomery, of Pa., proposed that every member of the House resign, and thus bring the question directly home before the people on their re-election. Mr. McPherson, (Rep.)of Pa., characterized the Southern movement as a conspiracy, diabolical in its character, Pa., characterized the Southern movement as a conspiracy, diabolical in its character, originating from disappointed ambition and natural inequality. Mr. Winslow, of N. C., obtained the floor, and the House adjourned. Senate.--Mr. Iverson, of Georgia, was discharged, at his own request, from further serving on the Committee of Claims. A bill providing for the removal of the St.Louis Arsenal, and sale of the land on which it is located, was passed. Mr. Crittenden's resolutions were laid aside, and the Tariff bill taken up and referred to a special committee.