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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 104 36 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 64 34 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 44 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore) 23 1 Browse Search
Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant 20 0 Browse Search
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 18 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 15 7 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 10 0 Browse Search
Matthew Arnold, Civilization in the United States: First and Last Impressions of America. 8 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. 8 4 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: July 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway in jail. (search)
Swearing in Hebrew. --Some five or six years ago, in one of the trains of cars running between Newark and Jersey City, N. J. there was young naval officer who was constantly intermingling his conversation with the most profane oaths. A young lady was so s ared that she could not but hear every time he swore. At first, she bore it with perfect equanimity; then as it continued and rather to crease into the shocking character of his imprecations, she began to grow fidgety and her eyes flashed. We knew a bolt would soon be shot, and that it would strike him — It came directly. 'Sir, can you converse in the Hebrew tongue?' 'Yes,' was the answer, in a half re, but sightly sheering tone. "Then," was the reply, "if you wish to swear any more you would greatly oblige me, and probably the rest of the passengers also, if you would do it in Hebrew" I watched him. His color came and went — now red, now white. He looked at the young lady, then at his boots, then at the ceiling of the cars;