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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1,788 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 514 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. 260 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 194 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 168 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore) 166 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition. 152 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 II. 150 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 132 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 122 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: October 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], Privateering — its history, law, and Usage. (search)
my, the practice, although deemed irregular, does not carry with it the taint of piracy. A vessel of a neutral State armed as a privateer, with a commission from a belligerent, where no treaty stipulations exist, although guilty of a gross infraction of the law of nations, is not chargeable with piracy. That was the rule held by the Court in the case of Gideon Henfield, tried for illegally enlisting in a French privateer, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Pennsylvania, 1793. Many States have entered into agreements, by treaty, to prevent their subjects from entering into such adventures, under heavy penalties; and others have covenanted that, in their municipal law, this act shall be treated as piracy. In the treaties entered into between the United States and France, Holland, Sweden, Prussia, Great Britain, Spain, and some of the South American States, it is declared "that no subject or citizen of either nation shall accept a commission or lette
The Daily Dispatch: October 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 13 (search)
tions — E. W. Fortney, of D. C., to $1,800 clerkship; Charles B. Shaw, of Va., to $1,600; Cunningham Haylett, of Ohio, to $1,600; S. B. Elliott, of D. C., to $1,400; H. K. Lawrence, of Wisconsin, to $1,200: W. B. Davis, of Maine, to $1,400; Chesterfield Robb, of Pa., to $1,400. Appointments — Wm. H. Gunnison, of Md., (first class,) $1,200; Wm. J. Leib, of Pa., (first class,) $1,200. John Butcher, of Va., second class clerk in the office of the Second Auditor, was yesterday removed. tions — E. W. Fortney, of D. C., to $1,800 clerkship; Charles B. Shaw, of Va., to $1,600; Cunningham Haylett, of Ohio, to $1,600; S. B. Elliott, of D. C., to $1,400; H. K. Lawrence, of Wisconsin, to $1,200: W. B. Davis, of Maine, to $1,400; Chesterfield Robb, of Pa., to $1,400. Appointments — Wm. H. Gunnison, of Md., (first class,) $1,200; Wm. J. Leib, of Pa., (first class,) $1,200. John Butcher, of Va., second class clerk in the office of the Second Auditor, was yesterday rem