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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 46 0 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: description of towns and cities. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 28 0 Browse Search
William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik 8 0 Browse Search
John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History 8 0 Browse Search
Wiley Britton, Memoirs of the Rebellion on the Border 1863. 6 0 Browse Search
Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant 4 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition. 2 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: April 8, 1864., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: April 8, 1864., [Electronic resource], Later from New Orleans. (search)
their negroes! This lie has never been noticed that we know of, yet it ought to have been. The fact is, Virginia had at that very moment with Washington's army, lying before New York, at least five thousand regulars. She had two thousand more either with Green or with other officers, outside of the State, and twice that number soon rallied around Lafayette. She had sent the year before three thousand militia to the army of Gates, and she had just conquered, with her own troops, the Illinois territory--that splendid empire, embracing Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan--which her statesmen, in a mad fit of generosity, afterwards presented to the United States, which was the same thing with giving it to the Yankees. We fought our own battles during the revolution, and we helped the Yankees to fight theirs. The Southern troops throughout the war were the best and the bravest of Washington's army. They saved the army by their valor at Brandywine, when the Yankees, in a panic,