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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 86 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 55 1 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 44 0 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir 26 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 16 0 Browse Search
Philip Henry Sheridan, Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army . 14 0 Browse Search
Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley 12 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 12 0 Browse Search
Baron de Jomini, Summary of the Art of War, or a New Analytical Compend of the Principle Combinations of Strategy, of Grand Tactics and of Military Policy. (ed. Major O. F. Winship , Assistant Adjutant General , U. S. A., Lieut. E. E. McLean , 1st Infantry, U. S. A.) 8 0 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 8 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: May 5, 1864., [Electronic resource], The News. (search)
Dismissal of Admiral Wilkes. Admiral Wilkes has been dismissed by court martial from the United States service. Among the queer things uncovered by the Wilkes court martial is the successful endeavor of Sanford, the Yankee Minister at Brussels, to have the war-frigate Vanderbilt used to collect a claim of his against a South American State of $150,000. Commodore Wilkes says in his defence: On the 15th of May I received a dispatch from the American Minister at Brussels, saying heBrussels, saying he had been advised by the Secretary of the Navy in regard to a visit to Laguayra by one of my squadron, and adding, "I hope that you or one of your squadron will be able at an early day to touch at Laguayra, or I fear that your intervention will come too late for any practical results." In another place the Commodore says: I proceeded to Caraccus, put myself in communication with the proper authorities, accomplished the object of my visit by securing the payment of $150,000 due to our