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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 272 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 122 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. 100 0 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 90 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. 84 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. 82 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 82 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 74 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 70 0 Browse Search
John G. Nicolay, The Outbreak of Rebellion 70 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: August 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], A Reminiscence of Gen Scott. (search)
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 few will ever go back. Many of them have been heard to declare that their casualties were ten times as much as represented in the dispatches, and that the Georgia boys were as brave as lions, and nothing but overwhelming numbers won the day. Mrs. Meriwether, of Guadalupe county, Texas, has three sons in Col. H. E. McCulloch's regiment, whom she equipped at her own expense. She says a further son is ready to t
The Daily Dispatch: August 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], Clerical Dissolves. (search)
t only agreed upon the following plan of operations, but they have begun to put it into practice. According to my authority, Gen. Lee, who has now, as you know, set his corps d'armee in motion, under the pretext of attacking our army in Western Virginia, really intends to direct his force upon the upper Potomac, which he will cross at a distance of about forty miles from Washington. Once there, he will be joined by the Secessionists, who are secretly organizing all over Maryland, and will Patterson's movements; a strong column will be sent against Butler from Richmond; and Pryor, the chevalier of the bowie-knife, and Henningsen, the companion of Walker, the filibuster, will dislodge Rosecrans from the position he occupies in Western Virginia. Such, according to the information I have received, is the plan the Rebels have adopted. I know the Administration expressed the opinion, the other day, that Washington cannot be taken. I know such is not their opinion to-day, and th