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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 1,756 1,640 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 979 67 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. 963 5 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 742 0 Browse Search
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 694 24 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 457 395 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. 449 3 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 427 7 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died. 420 416 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 410 4 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: March 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
. Simon Cameron, Secretary of War. Gen. Simon Cameron was born in Lancaster county. Pennsylvania, Reverses and misfortunes in his father's family cast him very early in life on the world to shape and carve out his own fortune. After having removed to Sonbury, in Northumberland county, his father died, while Simon was yet a boy. In he came to Harrisburg and bound himself as an apprentice to the printing business as James Peacock. Having completed his apprenticeship he went to Washington city, and was employed as a journeyman printer. In 1824, his party — then in the ascendancy in the Congressional district--proposed to nominate him for Congress, an honor which he declined, as interfering with the enterprise in which he was then engaged. He was appointed Adjutant General of the State in 1828, an office which he filled creditably and acceptable during Gov. Shultz's term; and in 1831, unsolicited, he was appointed by Gen. Jackson as a visitor to West Point. He has always be
The Daily Dispatch: March 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], Dispatch from Major Anderson. (search)
Marriage. --The Virginia laws never have thrown any very great drawbacks in the way of persons desiring to enter the holy estate of matrimony, and even such as were put in the way of aspirants have been nullified by a trip to North Carolina or Washington, D. C., when found difficult to overcome. The following is copied from a bill lately introduced in the Senate on the subject of marriage licenses: "It shall be the duty of every Clerk issuing a marriage license, to ascertain from the party obtaining the same, and to make a record thereof before delivering the said license, as near as may be, of the time and place of the proposed marriage, the full names of both parties, their respective ages before marriage, whether they are single or widowed, the places of their birth and residence, occupation of the husband, and of the names of their parents, unless for good cause the Clerk deem it expedient to omit the names of their parents."