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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 37 1 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 32 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 22 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 16 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. 16 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 12 0 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) 11 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 10 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: November 29, 1861., [Electronic resource] 9 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: February 18, 1862., [Electronic resource] 8 0 Browse Search
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., The Confederate Government at Montgomery. (search)
Davis. At any rate, he was zealous. Colonel Keitt afterward stated to the writer and others in Charleston that William L. Yancey, member of the Confederate Senate, Confederate Commissioner to Europe in 1861. from a photograph. a majority of tge and wise views. Mr. Leroy Pope Walker, of Alabama, was appointed Secretary of War on the recommendation of Mr. William L. Yancey. Ambitious, without any special fitness for this post, and overloaded, he accepted the office with the understannto diplomacy, and was no obstacle to negotiating treaties. John H. Reagan, Confederate Postmaster-General. When Mr. Yancey received the appointment at the head of the commission, Mr. Rhett conferred with him at length, and found that the commecure recognition of the independence of the Confederate States, or to obtain assistance. Upon his return from abroad, Mr. Yancey met Mr. Rhett and said: You were right, sir. I went on a fool's errand. In December, 1863, at Richmond, James L. Orr,