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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1,468 0 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1,286 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 656 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. 566 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 440 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 416 0 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 360 0 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 298 0 Browse Search
A Roster of General Officers , Heads of Departments, Senators, Representatives , Military Organizations, &c., &c., in Confederate Service during the War between the States. (ed. Charles C. Jones, Jr. Late Lieut. Colonel of Artillery, C. S. A.) 298 0 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 272 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: December 31, 1864., [Electronic resource], Our Wilmington Correspondence. (search)
on Sunday; but up to the hour at which I write--5 P. M. Monday--nothing has been seen or heard of it, either here or at Newbern.--The weather, which is rough outside, may have made it necessary for the monitors to put into port at some point further north, or the fleet may have kept on to Charleston or Port Royal — provided, always, that it has sailed at all. Beast Butler is reported to be in command of the expeditionary forces, and this leads to the belief that their destination is the South Carolina coast. At this inclement and stormy period of the year, it would be a dangerous operation for an enemy to attempt to land an army by such boats upon the open beach, and it would be quite as difficult to subsist it there after it had landed. It is out of the question to land artillery and cavalry. It would appear necessary, therefore, for the enemy first to reduce the forts at the mouth of the Cape Fear by a sea attack, which is considered here to be impossible, owing to the strength o