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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 134 (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 147 (search)
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 8 : from the battle of Bull Run to Paducah --Kentucky and Missouri . 1861 -1862 . (search)
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 17 (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 320 (search)
General Leslie Coombs, of Kentucky, writes to a friend in Cincinnati, under date of April 27, as follows:--
We could not control the Governor and his coconspirators, but we appealed to the people, and on next Saturday we expect to elect John J. Crittenden, James Guthrie, and others, to a brotherly peace conference--by a majority unparalleled heretofore in Kentucky.
I shall not be surprised at fifty thousand.
The destructionists, anticipating their fate, have recently resolved to abandon the contest.
Then, in Heaven's name 1 let us alone — keep the peace on your side of the river, and we will give treason such a rebuke in Old Kentucky that it will never again dare to raise its hideous head among us. We cannot turn our Governor out of office till his term expires, and he is the military commander-in-chief of the State; but we can keep Kentucky in the Union--if you will let us.
When a beardless boy, I left my father's home in Kentucky, and marched, with thousands of bra
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Index, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), Index. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Johnston , Richard Malcolm 1822 -1898 (search)
Johnston, Richard Malcolm 1822-1898
Author; born in Powelton, Ga., March 8, 1822; graduated at Mercer University, Georgia, in 1841, and a year later was admitted to the bar. In 1857-61 he was Professor of Literature in the University of Georgia.
He was an officer in the Confederate army throughout the Civil War. In 1867 he moved to Baltimore, and engaged in authorship.
His works include Georgia sketches; Dukesborough tales; Historical sketch of English Literature (with W. H. Browne); Old mark Langston; Two Gray Tourists; Mr. Absalom Billingslea, and other Georgia folk; Ogeechee cross Firings; Widow Guthrie; The Primes and their neighbors; Studies: literary and social; Old times in Middle Georgia; Pearse Amerson's will, etc. He died in Baltimore, Md., Sept. 23, 1898.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Peace Congresses. (search)