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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1,057 5 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 114 0 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 106 2 Browse Search
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 72 0 Browse Search
John Esten Cooke, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of War. 70 0 Browse Search
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee 67 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 60 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. 58 0 Browse Search
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade) 56 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 54 2 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: September 30, 1863., [Electronic resource], Runaway. (search)
A lesson from History. --Strange as it seems now no man has ever lived in America who was more thoroughly denounced and abused than George Washington was at one time. It was not at all likely that such a character should appear at any period above the public horizon, and especially a period of great political convulsion, witce, and all uncharitableness. We defy any public man to pass through the world without enemies who discharges his duties without fear, favor, or affection. George Washington, whilst his shoulders were broad enough to carry through such a war as the American Revolution by his almost unsupported strength, bore himself with such pro eclipse the mighty orb, were scattered from his path, and were compelled themselves to reflect the glory of the setting sun. But the treatment received by Washington is by no means peculiar. "The multitude," as the eminent Dr. Blair observed seventy years ago, "are always prone to find fault with those who are set over them