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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing)	22	0	Browse	Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans)	8	0	Browse	Search
The Daily Dispatch: February 22, 1861., [Electronic resource]	4	0	Browse	Search
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee	2	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 7: Prisons and Hospitals. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller)	2	0	Browse	Search
Thomas C. DeLeon, Four years in Rebel capitals: an inside view of life in the southern confederacy, from birth to death.	2	0	Browse	Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones)	2	0	Browse	Search
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative	2	0	Browse	Search
The Daily Dispatch: July 4, 1862., [Electronic resource]	2	0	Browse	Search
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade)	2	0	Browse	Search
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The Daily Dispatch: July 4, 1862., [Electronic resource], Further from the North. (search)

Brigadier-General Silas Casey commanded the advance division at the battle of Fair Oaks. --General Casey was born in Rhode Island about the year 1806; entered West Point in 1822; graduated in 1826, and entered the Seventh infantry; was promoted to First Lieutenant in June, 1836, and Captain in July, 1839. In the Florida war Captain Casey served with distinction under General Worth. He served also throughout the Mexican war, and added still further to his reputation for gallantry. At Contreras and Churubusco be distinguished himself, and received the braver of Major. At the assault on Chapuitepec he led the storming party, and was severely wounded. For this he received the brevet of Lieutenant Colonel. At the outbreak of the rebellion Colonel Casey was one of the first to offer his services to the Government, and obtained command of a brigade in August, 1861. On the reorganization of the army under Gen. McClellan he was appointed to the command of a division in Gen. Heintzelm

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