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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 6 0 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 4 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 4 0 Browse Search
James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley 2 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 2 0 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1 2 0 Browse Search
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe 2 0 Browse Search
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career. 2 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: Introduction., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 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. 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: August 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], Why Chambersburg was burnt. (search)
The ocean and the dikes. A traveler in Holland, during the peace of Amiens, says that one night while he was at one of the coast towns, there came a horrible roar of surge and billow and raving Boreas; so horrible, that even the phlegmatic Dutchmen were inclined to give it all up, and many of them sent their wives and children, goods and chattels, far into the interior, never doubting that the dike must give way and their whole town be swamped into annihilation. Next morning, however, the sun rose clear and bright, and when our traveler, among others, took courage to go down and examine the site of the anticipated breach, he found the dike stronger a million times than all the labor of half a dozen plodding centuries had ever been able to make it. The raging ocean, he says, had hurried before him such a mass of sturdy solid stuff that every heave it gave only added a new line of bulwark to the deserted barrier of trembling Mynheer, who, in consequence of that fortunate hurricane