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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore) 79 13 Browse Search
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 66 6 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 54 2 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 49 1 Browse Search
James Russell Soley, Professor U. S. Navy, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, The blockade and the cruisers (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 34 2 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 33 5 Browse Search
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade) 23 1 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 23 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: December 20, 1861., [Electronic resource] 21 1 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 18 0 Browse Search
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Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), The civil history of the Confederate States (search)
d sailed for England. In the meantime Captain Charles Wilkes, U. S. N., commanding the United Stateear the island on the alert for the Trent, Captain Wilkes sighted the approaching vessel on the highthe second cutter also appearing alongside Captain Wilkes formed a line outside the main deck cabin ompliments of some portions of the press. Captain Wilkes for a brief moment was the pride of the na not getting much sleep out of that exploit of Wilkes, and I suppose we must look up the law of the awyer, but it seems to me pretty clear that if Wilkes saw fit to make that capture on the high seas, a prize court. The shrewd President saw that Wilkes could not let the Trent go free, while he boreson and Slidell on board a British vessel, Captain Wilkes having acted without any instructions fromense of his government mainly on the fact that Wilkes acted without any direction or instruction or the United States had sanctioned the action of Wilkes, it would have become responsible for the orig[2 more...]