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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1,078 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 442 0 Browse Search
Brig.-Gen. Bradley T. Johnson, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 2.1, Maryland (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 440 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 430 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 330 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. 324 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 306 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) 284 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 254 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 150 0 Browse Search
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rrested by Captain Morrison's picket of the 12th Indiana regiment. They claimed to be a wagon master and his assistant belonging to Gen. Stone's brigade, but on being closely questioned apart by Captain M., the replies gave the lie to their professions, and they were turned over to General Banks for a further examination. This forenoon continued reports of heavy ordnance were heard, apparently in the vicinity of Washington. The cause has not transpired yet in camp. Point of Rocks, Md., Aug. 27. --We have just received important information here, stating that an attack was made on the Tammany regiment of Col. Stone's brigade, ten miles below this point, at Edward's Ferry, early on Saturday morning. We have not received full particulars up to this time. We distinctly heard and counted eighty- four reports of shot and shell. On Sunday morning we heard the report of about twenty shots, which came from the same, place, and yesterday morning the firing was still going on;
is now well armed. Manassas Junction has been virtually abandoned, there being only a guard left there to look after the guns in battery.--The principal body of their forces has been pushed forward to the Upper Potomac, to be thrown across into Maryland, for which movement a column of forty thousand is prepared, with pontoon bridges, upon which they can cross at any point they find the least defended. They are determined to make an effort to get Maryland in their possession, and they believe tMaryland in their possession, and they believe that will insure their ultimate possession of this city, and all the immense accumulation of supplies here, and enable them to transfer the war from the Potomac is the Susquehanna, and secure to them the recognition by Europe of the Southern Confederacy. This programme has been decided upon. The Postal system suspended in Portions on Kentucky. The Post-Office Department having authen tic information that the mails have been repeatedly violated and cannot be carried safely in that p
sterday the pickets at Ball's Cross Roads. The Federals fell back, but again advanced, and are now occupying their old position. Titan L. Coffee is now the acting Attorney General during the absence of Mr. Bates to St. Louis. The correspondent of the World says that the Attorney General has decided that the Government loan is not taxable either by Federal, State, or local authority. The Herald's correspondent says it is estimated by men entitled to know that there are 75,000 Confederate troops between Harper's and Edwards Ferris awaiting an opportunity to force a crossing into Maryland. In the meantime the Secessionists are gathering on the Eastern Shore. Secretary Chase contemplates issuing an address in behalf of the National loan. The special correspondent of the New York Post, says that a new army order will soon be issued, to suppress objectionable newspapers, and it is stated that Gen. Dix under that order, will suppress the Baltimore secession papers.
ent their movements have betrayed no fixity of purpose or settled plan to pursue an aggressive war, or even "to liberate Maryland if they have the means of doing so." And, indeed, their success was, as I suspected, not known to them in its full ght bank of the Potomac, and to hold it in check, or to prevent it going over to the other side; the other to cross into Maryland, which is now in parts only kept quiet by force, and to advance down or Washing on from the west and north. In the at volunteer officers shall undergo an examination, as well as the reconstruction of the military districts in Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania.] He then continues — Yesterday a bill was passed by the House of Representatives impos point in front of Harper's Ferry, on the Virginia side, has, it is affirmed, with drawn all his troops to a position in Maryland, which commands the passages from the Ferry; and Gen. Butler, at Fortress Monroe, feels himself compelled to abandon his