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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 146 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. 41 5 Browse Search
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac 40 2 Browse Search
John Beatty, The Citizen-Soldier; or, Memoirs of a Volunteer 37 13 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 27 9 Browse Search
Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War 26 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 24 0 Browse Search
A. J. Bennett, private , First Massachusetts Light Battery, The story of the First Massachusetts Light Battery , attached to the Sixth Army Corps : glance at events in the armies of the Potomac and Shenandoah, from the summer of 1861 to the autumn of 1864. 23 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: April 6, 1861., [Electronic resource] 16 2 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 16 0 Browse Search
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with the farmer to be sent to Richmond: Co. I, 5th, Va, Cavalry.--1st Lieut. W R Sticklin, 2d Lieut F C Boston; Sergeant W Lipscomb, Corporal A D Johnson; Privates M R Woodson, J J Wood, B J. Bowls, J W McGec, J W Burgess, J A Tompkins, S A Dobhella, J C Maddux, T W Brockenborough, W H Davis, B M Modend, Co. G--Privates G M Creasy, J V Garland, A S Brinkley, J A Land. Co B, 15th Va cavalry — Privates M F West. Co G, 3d Va cavalry, captured May 9th, 1864--Sergt S F Coleman, Corp'l M J Wilson, Privates T H Adams, T E Cobell, J W Goodman, J A Hendrick, B W Baldwin, W J Robinson, J S Robinson. Co E, 2d Va cavalry — Private R M West. As this list was written very indistinctly some of the names may not be correct. The prisoner had only a few moments to prepare it. Movements on the Southside — Demonstration on Drewry's Bluff last night. When the enemy fell back from before Petersburg and Drewry's Bluff on Monday reconnaissances were made by our troops, and it was ascer<
ble for him to support the Federal Administration as to breathe the vital air. Whether he would have contented himself with a moderate and decent "loyalty, " like that of Fillmore, or have plunged into the depth of personal debasement, like Everett and Cushing, must be, of course, a matter of conjecture. The corruption of the grave which has seized upon his body is nothing to the corruption of that living death which would have fastened upon a soul like his, degraded to the companionship of Wilson and Butler. There is another sad reflection in the paragraph we have quoted. In view of the certainty that the North would demand of the South the abolition of slavery, he, Daniel Webster, begs the people of the South to accede to that demand! We have always looked upon Daniel Webster as one of the greatest of American statesmen and orators; but whatever else he was great in, it is now evident that he was not a great man. The maxim of an illustrious light of English jurisprudence, Fla