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The Daily Dispatch: January 19, 1865., [Electronic resource], Letter from President Davis to the Georgia Senators . (search)
The Daily Dispatch: January 19, 1865., [Electronic resource], Three hundred Dollars Reward. (search)
The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1865., [Electronic resource], Statistics of slavery. (search)
Statistics of slavery.
According the United States Census for 1850, the number of slaves then in the United States was 3, 204,013, distributed as follows: Alabama, 342,844; Arkansas, 47,100; District of Columbia, 3,687; Delaware, 2,290; Florida, 39,310; Georgia, 381, 682; Kentucky, 210,981; Louisiana, 244,809; Maryland, 90,368; Mississippi, 309,878; Missouri, 87,482; New Jersey, 236; North Carolina, 288,548; South Carolina, 384,984; Tennessee, 239,459; Texas, 58,161; Virginia, 472,528; Territories, 26.
In 1776, the slaves were as follows: Massachusetts, 3,500; Rhode Island, 4,373; Connecticut, 6,000; New Hampshire, 629; New York, 15,000; New Jersey, 7,600; Pennsylvania, 10,000; Delaware, 9,000; Maryland, 80,000; Virginia, 165,000; North Carolina, 75,000; South Carolina, 110,000, and Georgia, 16,000.
Total in 1776,502,132.
The first introduction of African slaves was in 1620, by a Dutch vessel which brought twenty from Africa to Virginia.
In his work upon the slave trade,
The Daily Dispatch: January 25, 1865., [Electronic resource], Cromwell , Lincoln and Virginia . (search)
The Daily Dispatch: January 26, 1865., [Electronic resource], An Interesting Incident of the battle of Franklin . (search)
An Interesting Incident of the battle of Franklin.
--A letter, by a participant in this sanguinary fight, says that the gallant Missouri brigade, led by General Cockerell, and attached to General French's division, entered the fight six hundred strong, and brought out only two hundred and sixty-one, having lost four hundred and nineteen men, killed, wounded and missing.
In speaking of the charge made by this brigade it says: "In a very few minutes General Cockerell returned, riding his wearied horse, and severely wounded in three places.--The horse of Colonel Gates, of his brigade, which had so often followed General Cockerell's over many a weary mile, turned, and, by instinct, followed him from the field also, the rider, shot through both arms, being unable to guide his horse.
I shall never forget the steady, calm gaze of this old hero of many a battle-field as he sat his horse erect as a statue, his paralyzed arms hanging to his side.
I assisted him from his horse, and he wa