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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: September 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], Seizure of a Southern vessel. (search)
he rebels at Romney, but none came. The pickets had been firing upon one another there for several days.--There are only about six hundred men at New Creek, including the Ringgold Cavalry. A battery of artillery, however, was sent down there yesterday morning. Proclamation of Gen. Kelly. Brigadier General Kelly has issued the following order: Headquarters District of Grafton, Grafton, Va., Sept. 7, 1861. The General commanding desires to reassure the people of Western Virginia that it is the desire and intention of the United States Government to give to the citizens full and ample protection in all their civil and political rights, and that private property, of whatever character or description, shall be held inviolate. In order to secure to the owners of slaves the most ample protection that can be given, as well as protect the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from loss and damage under its charter, it is expressly prohibited for any officer or soldier to t
The Daily Dispatch: September 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], Washington items. (search)
The campaign in Northwest Virginia. --Without presuming to criticise the plan of campaign for Western Virginia which our able military authorities decided upon in the outset, we think it has been rendered pretty clear by the course of events, that we have made a mistake in sending so large a force in the direction of Monterey and Huttonsville, to be penned up in the Cheat and Valley Mountains, and in sending so small a force in the direction of Lewisburg, to be outnumbered and checked firsould not be sufficiently reinforced to enable him to assume offensive operations again, recross the Ganley, and, in concert with General Wise, drive the enemy down the Kanawha. Our Government has become so committed to the operations in Western Virginia, that it cannot afford now to let them hang fire. The enemy would boast of holding that country as if every day of possession were equivalent to a fresh victory over us. The moral effect of his continding there would be exceedingly prejadic