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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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position honorable in the highest degree. After listening to the history of the respectable old Irish emigrant, who, His Majesty was also informed, from the rapid manner in which he performed the old-fashioned operation on those afflicted with the Dolores was nicknamed "Core tic doloreux instanter,"the conversation turned to the Commander-in-chief of the United States army. If Napoleon was not already aware that Gen. McClellan was trained in the art of war at the military academy of West Point, and in the Crimean war with the "Jeunesse strangere," which attached itself to the French army, he was on this occasion informed of it, as well as the high probity and unflinching strength of character which, irrespective of great intellectual qualities, would be sufficient to mark him out as one of the leading men in the American Union. Circumstances illustrative of them were brought for ward, and the narrator of the previous history of the Commander-in-Chief of the Federal army, wi
his department, and assumes command to-morrow, and that Col. A. W. Reynolds, the present commander, has been transferred to Kentucky to take command of Gen. Floyd's brigade — the old General having been promoted to a Major-Generalship. Col. Reynolds had endeared himself much to the people of this section. He was a native of this county, and has ever regarded it as his home. He is a most highly intelligent gentleman, as well as a gallant and accomplished officer — having graduated at West Point with the highest honors in the same class with Beauregard, Johnston, Hardee, and Tropier. Since assuming the command here, on the 13th ult., the Colonel has been very active in the discharge of his duties, and by the promptness and decisiveness of his movements, won the confidence and esteem of the community. His sudden separation from us is sincerely regretted by all the friends of our cause. The Colonel has a fine field of labor opened to him in Kentucky, and we have no doubt but that