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Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 273 19 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 181 13 Browse Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 136 4 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 108 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 106 2 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 71 5 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 57 5 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 56 2 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. 54 4 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 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 49 1 Browse Search
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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 2: preliminary rebellious movements. (search)
n of National officers, 48. rejoicings in Charleston and Columbia excitement in Slave-labor States, 49. Secession in the s H. Thornwell, President of a Theological Seminary at Columbia, S. C., one of the most eminent scholars and theologians in th obliged to you if you will write me soon and fully from Columbia. It is impossible to write to you, with the constant int meet in extraordinary session, in the old State House at Columbia, on Monday, the 5th of November, for the purpose of choosof the Southern States, he said, The old State House at Columbia. justify the conclusion that the secession of South of age. He had now hastened from his home in Virginia to Columbia, to urge the importance of immediate secession. I have svening of the 7th, November, 1860. a dispatch went up to Columbia from Charleston, saying that many of the National Edmunomised abundant fruit. There was intense excitement at Columbia, on the morning after the election. Governor Gist was th
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 4: seditious movements in Congress.--Secession in South Carolina, and its effects. (search)
Political Economy in the South Carolina College at Columbia. He sent an address to his fellow-citizens of thehe old Charles G. Memminger. State House at Columbia. The lower House of the South Carolina Legislatury a great torch-light procession in the streets of Columbia. The old banner of the Union was taken down from work of wide and powerful influence, published at Columbia, said, on the 15th of December, It is well known tber, 1860. they assembled in the Baptist Church at Columbia, they were all of one mind in relation to the mainme that the small-pox was raging as an epidemic in Columbia. Men who were professedly ready to die for the caliam Porcher miles. At the evening session in Columbia, before their flight, John A. Elmore, of Alabama, preservation in the archives of South Carolina, at Columbia. A great shout of exultation went up from the mule of Secession, to be placed in the State House at Columbia, for preservation. The Legislature of South Car
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 6: Affairs at the National Capital.--War commenced in Charleston harbor. (search)
the wily machinations of the other. And if that red seal of blood be still lacking to the parchment of our liberties, and blood they want — blood they shall have — and blood enough to stamp it all in red. For, by the God of our fathers, the soil of South Carolina shall be free! Charleston Mercury, January 10, 1861. Four years after the war was so boastfully begun by these South Carolina conspirators, it had made Charleston a ghastly ruin, in which not one of these men remained; laid Columbia, the capital of the State, in ashes; liberated every slave within the borders of the Commonwealth; wholly disorganized society; filled the land with the mourning of the deceived and bereaved people, and caused a large number of those who signed the Ordinance of Secession, and brought the curse of War's desolation upon the innocent inhabitants of most of the Slave-labor States, to become fugitives from their homes, utterly ruined. A letter written in Charleston just after the National tro
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 16: Secession of Virginia and North Carolina declared.--seizure of Harper's Ferry and Gosport Navy Yard.--the first troops in Washington for its defense. (search)
ty guns, which was constructed in 1837, but had never ventured upon a long ocean voyage. The others were the ships-of-the-line Columbus, eighty; Delaware, eighty-four, and New York, eighty-four, on the stocks: the frigates United States, fifty; Columbia, fifty; and Raritan, fifty: the sloops-of-war Plymouth, twenty-two, and Germantown, twenty-two: the brig Dolphin, four; and the steam-frigate Merrimack, afterward made famous by its attack on the National squadron in Hampton Roads and a contest is harness boast himself as he that putteth it off. Only a portion of the vessels at the Gosport station were absolutely destroyed. The New York, on the stocks in one of the ship-houses, was totally consumed. The Pennsylvania, Dolphin, and Columbia had nothing saved but the lower bottom timbers; the Raritan was burnt to the water's edge; the Merrimack was burnt to her copper-line and sunk; the Germantown was also burnt and sunk; while the useless old United States, in which Decatur won glo