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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1,030 0 Browse Search
Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States. 578 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. 482 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 198 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. 152 0 Browse Search
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 116 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 96 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 96 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 94 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 92 0 Browse Search
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Lt.-Colonel Arthur J. Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States, April, 1863. (search)
ck felt hats, ornamented with the lone star of Texas. They looked rough and dirty, but were extrem quelling a counter-revolution of Unionists in Texas. Nothing could exceed the rancor with which tne. This necessity does not exist except in Texas. The ambulance returned from Bagdad to-dayds Brownsville, from places in the interior of Texas at least five hundred miles distant. Want of w Church of England. Mr. King first came to Texas as a steamboat captain, but now owns an immensheat from nine to two is pretty severe; but in Texas there is generally a cool sea-breeze, which Mathe remainder being corn, &c. It is only in Texas that so much cotton is still grown. We alsevery one anticipates a great immigration into Texas after the peace. We crossed the Colorado rale, who will probably be the next governor of Texas. He is an agreeable man, and his conversationbridge and up the second incline. But even in Texas this method of crossing a river is considered [9 more...]
Lt.-Colonel Arthur J. Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States, May, 1863. (search)
of Tennessee at thirty-six. He emigrated into Texas in 1832; headed the revolt of Texas, and defea next appointed aid-de-camp to the governor of Texas, with the rank of brigadier-general; he then d was found very difficult to raise infantry in Texas, as no Texan walks a yard if he can help it. M withdrawn with the remnant of his slaves into Texas. The Judge also had lost all his property ineir families and negroes were taking refuge in Texas, after having abandoned their plantations in Lfamilies, their slaves, and furniture, towards Texas-in tact, every thing that they could save fromwas alive with negroes, who are being run into Texas out of Banks' way. We must have met hundreds od Magruder's position as commander-in-chief in Texas, but he has now been shelved at Munroe, where mpanions were a fat Government contractor from Texas, the wounded Missourian Mr. Douglas, and an ugthe open air for the first time since I was in Texas. 20th may, 1863 (Wednesday). At 3 A. M. [4 more...]
Lt.-Colonel Arthur J. Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States, June, 1863. (search)
of Charleston had also spoiled me for the road, as I could no longer appreciate at their proper value the hog and hominy meals which I had been so thankful for in Texas; but I found Major Norris a very agreeable and instructive companion. We changed cars again at Weldon, where I had a terrific fight for a seat, but I succeeded; fttswood Hotel, took me to spend the evening at Mrs. S--‘s, a charming widow, for whom I had brought a letter from her only son, aid-de-camp to General Magruder, in Texas. Mrs. S-- is clever and agreeable. She is a highly patriotic Southerner; but she told me that she had stuck fast to the Union until Lincoln's proclamation caltheir superfine broadcloth is never in any danger. General Longstreet is generally a particularly taciturn man; but this evening he and I had a long talk about Texas, where he had been quartered a long time. He remembered many people whom I had met quite well, and was much amused by the description of my travels through that
Lt.-Colonel Arthur J. Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States, July, 1863. (search)
elt quite sorry when I said good-by to so many gentlemen from whom I had received so much disinterested kindness. I am now about to leave the Southern States, after travel ling quite alone throughout their entire length and breadth, including Texas and the transMissis-sippi country, for nearly three months and a half, during which time I have been thrown amongst all classes of the population — the highest and lowest, and the most lawless. Although many were very sore about the conduct of Ell bargain for its lasting at least all Lincoln's presidency. Although I have always been with the Confederates in the time of their misfortunes, yet I never heard any person use a desponding word as to the result of the struggle. When I was in Texas and Louisiana, Banks seemed to be carrying every thing before him, Grant was doing the same in Mississippi, and I certainly did not bring luck to my friends at Gettysburg. I have lived in bivouacs with all the Southern armies, which are as disti