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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 236 0 Browse Search
Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States. 114 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 44 0 Browse Search
James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion 42 0 Browse Search
Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Debates of Lincoln and Douglas: Carefully Prepared by the Reporters of Each Party at the times of their Delivery. 20 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 20 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. 18 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: February 21, 1865., [Electronic resource] 16 0 Browse Search
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1 14 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 12 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: August 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], Partition of territory in the Old Union. (search)
isiana purchase was left to the South, amounting to 158,896 square miles. Total to the South, 492,520. All the remainder, viz: 977,600 square miles, or nearly in the proportion of two to one, were accorded to the free States! Since that division, the only territory acquired was that under the treaty of peace after the war with Mexico. This contained 665,486 square miles, and was all free territory. Of this, the North obtained the rich State of California, containing 188,981 square miles; Utah, 220,196--making a total of 409,177, which the Northern States acquired from a war to which Southern treasure contributed the principal portion of the means, and Southern rebels contributed the largest number of soldiers. New Mexico remained, containing 256,309 square miles of not very desirable territory to any section; yet the North, after all the territory it had received and acquired, would not accord even this insignificant portion to the South. It was slave territory, and it was not a