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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 272 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 122 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. 100 0 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 90 0 Browse Search
Elias Nason, McClellan's Own Story: the war for the union, the soldiers who fought it, the civilians who directed it, and his relations to them. 84 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. 82 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 82 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 74 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 70 0 Browse Search
John G. Nicolay, The Outbreak of Rebellion 70 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: March 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
was staring us in the face, it was urged on this floor that action on this important subject must be postponed to an adjourned session. If this course was followed, no one could see where it would end. Gentlemen had spoken of the people of Western Virginia as likely to become abolitionize. He would remind them that the course they were pursuing here was the very thing calculated to bring about such a result. Mr. Willey, of Monongalia, desired to explain briefly the reasons which induced me being inopportune for its consideration, it would tend to quiet agitation, and remove the heart burnings at present existing. He denied that it was a sectional question; for the entire property of the working man in Eastern as well as in Western Virginia was taxed, while a large portion of the property of the rich man, better able to pay, was exempt. The hour of half-past 10 having arrived, the President stated that the Convention would go into Committee of the Whole, for the further co