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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 472 144 Browse Search
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 358 8 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 215 21 Browse Search
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1 186 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. 124 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 108 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 103 5 Browse Search
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2 97 15 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 92 0 Browse Search
Elias Nason, McClellan's Own Story: the war for the union, the soldiers who fought it, the civilians who directed it, and his relations to them. 83 1 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: August 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], A Reminiscence of Gen Scott. (search)
o engineered the swindling beef contract, and who has had more jobs worked through than any other man." A regiment of Zouaves is now being formed in Tennessee for the army of the Confederate States, to serve during the war. The regiment is to be armed with rifles and sabre bayonets, and uniformed in the regular Zouave costume of the French. It is to be commanded by Colonel J. G. Anglade, who was for several years connected with that service in Europe. In the late advices from Fortress Monroe, it is stated that an educated German, a private belonging to the Tenth New York Regiment, has been arrested there for "holding correspondence with the enemy." A letter to General Lee was found on his person. Ambition for advancement is supposed to have been his principal motive. His letter contained no revelations of importance concerning the Fortress. The Indiana volunteers engaged in the Western Virginia raid and the Rich Mountain affair, have returned home, and but precious f
The Daily Dispatch: August 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], $100 reward (search)
[for the Richmond Dispatch.]Yankees selling Virginia negroes. It is said that two hundred and forty negroes have been sent from Fortress Monroe to Cuba. This is moreover, but carrying out the act of the Yankee Congress for the confiscation of the negroes belonging to Southerners. In the present bankruptcy of their Government, we see no resource they have, except to pay themselves by the capture and sale of our slaves. It may be easy for us to prove what number may have been stolen at this or that farm, or sent off and sold from this or that fort. It is not so easy, however, to identify what particular negroes were stolen by what particular Yankee. In enforcing reparation for our stolen property, the evidence as to the above most important points may be difficult to obtain — It is feared almost impossible. It seems that enactments might be so framed as to allow our negroes to bear witness in the cases above referred to. Laws for admitting their evidence might be so