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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 71 1 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. 70 4 Browse Search
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 66 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 57 1 Browse Search
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee 52 0 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 10: The Armies and the Leaders. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 50 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 48 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 44 2 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 44 4 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: September 30, 1861., [Electronic resource] 36 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: July 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], Ultimate Overthrow of Despotism. (search)
l. John Program. --The stand made by this gallant officer at Rich Mountain, with 300 of his comrades, against Lincoln's hordes of vandal Yankees and Virginia tories, has been compared to that made by Leonidas and his brave followers against Xerxes and his Persian hordes at the pass of Thermopolæ. The Raleigh Register, edited by John WeSyme, says: "Heroic conduct is what might have been expected from John Program. Being a native of Petersburg, we have known him from infancy, and enjoyed a close intimacy with his late lamented father, Gen. James W. Program, Better and more chivalric blood than that of John Program never coursed through the veins of any man. Col. P's military education was effected at West Point, where he graduated with the first honors. Since then he has traveled in Europe, where he had the finest opportunities of studying military affairs on the largest scale. We earnestly hope that his captivity — which was purely accidental — will be of short duratio
The Daily Dispatch: July 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], New Publication — map of the Confederate States. (search)
ordan; Quartermaster, Thomas M. Blount; Commissary, Robert F. Simonton. Captains--Company A, A. K. Simonton; Company K, F. M. T. McNeely; Company E, D. M. Carter; Company C, J. B. Andrews; Company G. William F. Kelly; Company B, James H. Wood; Company I, William T. March; Company F, J. S. Barnes; Company D, Junius B. Whitaker; Company H, Ed. A. Osborne. There is a company of Artillery attached to this regiment, Capt. Reilly's, (Company "D," of Artillery.) This company is as yet armed with Infantry weapons, but it is hoped that it will soon be in possession of the guns appropriate to its organization. Capt. R. is an old U. S. officer, and will make good use of his battery when he gets it. Col. Anderson is a graduate of West Point, and although a young man, comparatively, will no doubt make his mark--an ineffaceable one at that — if the opportunity is ever furnished. He is not only a most accomplished officer and gentleman, but, personally, one of the finest specimens of a man.