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Eliza Frances Andrews, The war-time journal of a Georgia girl, 1864-1865 28 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 26 26 Browse Search
Parthenia Antoinette Hague, A blockaded family: Life in southern Alabama during the war 20 4 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 13 1 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 12 4 Browse Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 10 4 Browse Search
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary 10 4 Browse Search
Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War 9 9 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. 9 3 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 9 9 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cobb, Joseph Beckham 1819-1858 (search)
Cobb, Joseph Beckham 1819-1858 Author; born in Oglethorpe county, Ga., April 11, 1819; educated at Franklin College, Ga., settled in Noxubee county, Miss., in 1838. His publications include The Creole, or the siege of New Orleans (a novel ); Mississippi scenes, or sketches of Southern and Western life and adventure, etc. He died in Columbus, Ga., Sept. 15, 1858.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Slavery. (search)
e the stamp of condemnation upon such laws as reflect upon the institution of slavery, but have permitted, unrebuked, the influence of foreign opinion to prevail. The True Southron, published in Mississippi, suggested the propriety of stimulating the zeal of the pulpit by founding a prize for the best sermon on free-trade in negroes. This proposition was approved, and pulpits exhibited zeal in the cause. James H. Thornwell, D. D., president of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Columbus, S. C., asserted his conviction that the African slave-trade formed the most worthy of all missionary societies. Southern legislatures and conventions openly discussed the subject of reopening the slave-trade. The Southern Commercial Convention, held in Vicksburg, Miss., May 11, 1859, resolved, by a vote of 47 to Scene in a Southern slave town. 16, that all laws, State or federal, prohibiting the African slave-trade ought to be abolished. It was warmly advocated by several men who becam
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Tom, (search)
Tom, Popularly known as blind Tom, musician; born blind, and of negro slave parents, near Columbus, Ga., May 25, 1849. During infancy he gave no sign of intelligence excepting when he heard a sound; was afterwards precocious in learning words, but while he could repeat whole conversations that he had heard, words had no meaning to him, and he made known his wants by inarticulate sounds. His performances on the piano were wonderful and he could reproduce from memory over 5,000 compositions, including the most difficult selections from Beethoven, Chopin, Thalberg, Bach, and Gottschalk.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Veto (search)
276Feb. 26, 1887Public Building at Portsmouth, O., and Lafayette, Ind. 277 278 to 292Apr. 4, 1888 to May 3, 1888Pensions and Reliefs. 293Apr. 7, 1888Sale of Indian Land. 294Apr. 9, 1888Public Building at Allentown, Pa. 295 to 297May 9, 1888 to May 18, 1888Pensions. 298May 18, 1888Use of Castle Island, Boston Harbor. 299 to 307May 18, 1888 to May 26, 1888Pensions. 308May 28, 1888Public Building at Youngstown, O. 309 to 311May 28, 1888Pensions. 312May 29, 1888Public Building at Columbus, Ga. 313June 5, 1888Public Building at Bar Harbor, Me. 314June 5, 1888Government Land Purchase, Council Bluffs, Ia. 315 to 344June 5, 1888 to July 26, 1888Pensions and Reliefs, Private. 345June 26, 1888Right of Way for Railroad through Indian Lands. 346Aug. 3, 1888Relief. 347Aug. 7, 1888Land Grant to Tacoma, Wash. 348 to 361Aug. 9, 1888 to Aug. 10, 1888Pensions, Private. 362Aug. 14, 1888Additional Copies of United States Map for 1886. 363 to 373Aug. 14, 1888 to Aug. 27, 1888Pensions
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wilson, James Harrison (search)
son pushed to Montgomery, then under the military command of Gen. Wirt Adams. This officer did not wait for Wilson's arrival, but, setting on fire 90,000 bales of cotton stored there, he fled. The Nationals entered the town unopposed. Major Weston marched northward (April 12), and, near Wetumpka, on the Coosa, he destroyed five heavily laden steamboats. Montgomery was surrendered to Wilson by the civil authorities, and after two days he crossed the Alabama and pushed on eastward to Columbus, Ga., on the east side of the Chattahoochee. He captured that city, with 1,200 men, fifty-two fieldpieces, and a large quantity of small-arms and stores, losing only twenty of his own men. There the Nationals destroyed the Confederate ram Jackson and burned 115,000 bales of cotton, fifteen locomotives, and 250 cars; also a large quantity of public property—a manufactory of small-arms, an arsenal, four cotton factories, three paper-mills, gun-foundries, a rolling-mill, and a vast amount of s