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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: November 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], Wanted. (search)
n, on accepting a sword presented to him by Philadelphians, contains one undoubted fact. He says he has not yet done anything to merit such an honor. This is more modest than his boasting proclamation that he had put an end to Secession in Western Virginia, and his more recent pronunciamento from Washington-- "Soldiers, we have seen our last defeat. No more defeats; no more retreats You stand by me, and I'll stand by you"--which had an immediate commentary in the fastest time ever made by theenant-General? It could be said at least of old Scott that he had enjoyed a great reputation, but McClellan is absolutely an unknown man. Nothing but a small success, achieved by the aid of tremendous odds, over a few hundred Virginians, in Western Virginia, has given him that prestige with the infatuated Yankee nation which has induced them to place him over the head of old officers of their service, of men like Wool, who, if he had a sword presented to him, could not say, without a palpable a
The Daily Dispatch: November 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], From the border. (search)
them. It was the great feeder of the Federal Capital. For the past three months it has been literally lined with boats carrying immense quantities of coal to Washington and Alexandria; as also other boats heavily freighted with precious provisions for the hungry hirelings of Abraham. This canal was all-important to them, rendered more so from the fact that it had to supply the place of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. It was the only medium of transportation between the Capital and Western Virginia, and other points. They appreciated its value, and sent soldiers to guard and protect it. But soldiers were of no avail. The power brought against it was mightier than bayonets, and sentinels challenged in vain; the rain descended, the flood came, and washed away the canal banks — and great was the wash thereof! The election passed off quietly in this county. A very small vote was polled.--This is to be regretted; for it was hoped that every voter remaining in the county would t
The Daily Dispatch: November 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], In Memoriam. (search)
In Memoriam. --We learn that the regiment of which the late Col. J. W. Spalding was commander, in Western Virginia, is now making up a subscription with a view to the erection of a suitable monument over the remains of that officer, in Shockoe Hill Cemetery.