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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. 573 1 Browse Search
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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore) 394 0 Browse Search
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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 384 0 Browse Search
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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 256 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 II. 244 0 Browse Search
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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 1: operations in Virginia.--battle of Chancellorsville.--siege of Suffolk. (search)
Clellan and Buell in the summer and early autumn of 1862, had charged all failures to suppress the rebellion to the inefficiency of the Government, whose hands they had continually striven to weaken. They had succeeded in spreading general alarm and distrust among the people; and, during the despondency that prevailed after the failure of the campaign of the Army of the Potomac, ending in inaction after the Battle of Antietam, See chapter XVIII, volume II. and of the Army of the Ohio in Kentucky, when Bragg and his, forces were allowed to escape to a stronghold near Nashville, See page 511, volume II. elections were held in ten Free-labor States, and, in the absence of the votes of the soldiers (two-thirds of whom were friends of the administration), resulted in favor of the Opposition. In these ten States Mr. Lincoln's majority in 1860 was 208,066. In 1862, the Opposition not only overcame this, but secured a majority of 35,781. The expectation of conscription to carry on
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 3: political affairs.--Riots in New York.--Morgan's raid North of the Ohio. (search)
e work of the Peace Faction, 91. Morgan's raid in Kentucky colored troops, 92. Morgan's raid in Indiana, 93ckner, who was in East Tennessee on the borders of Kentucky, to dash into that State and seize Louisville, anday from Lebanon, and his ranks had been swelled by Kentucky secessionists to more than four thousand men, withand Shackleford, consisting of Ohio, Michigan, and Kentucky troops. These had formed a junction at Lebanon oneral Judah's division, stationed in the section of Kentucky between the Cumberland and Barren rivers, had beensisted chiefly of Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Kentucky cavalry, and went up the Ohio River in boats to iners of Ohio, preparatory to making his way back to Kentucky as quickly as possible. He knew that Hobson was ie might cross over into Western Virginia, or Northeastern Kentucky, and make his way back to Tennessee with his a boy, found shelter with sympathizing friends in Kentucky. The utter carelessness of the officer in charge
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 4: campaign of the Army of the Cumberland from Murfreesboro'to Chattanooga. (search)
ly wounded in an encounter with guerrillas in Kentucky. The chief object of the Confederates at rland River. The range extends from near the Kentucky line almost to Athens, in Alabama. Its northBreckinridge, and commenced plundering Southeastern Kentucky, and expelling Unionists from the StatSanders crossed the Cumberland Mountains from Kentucky, struck the East Tennessee and Georgia railwah trifling loss, Sanders made his way back to Kentucky, after capturing three guns, ten thousand smaf business being to keep disloyal citizens in Kentucky and elsewhere in check, and to protect the Unce under Colonel De Courcey, who came up from Kentucky. He held out for three or four days, when Burn Department; and the commanders in Ohio and Kentucky were ordered to make every exertion to secureRiver, and that the redeemed commonwealths of Kentucky and Tennessee should not be again subjected t with grateful emotions that the conqueror of Kentucky and Tennessee has been elevated to a position[2 more...]
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 5: the Chattanooga campaign.--movements of Sherman's and Burnside's forces. (search)
and W. Prescott Smith, Master of Transportation on the Baltimore and Ohio road. In the space of eight days, the two corps, twenty thousand strong, marched from the Rapid Anna to Washington, and were thence conveyed through West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee, to the Tennessee River. Halleck determined to hold Chattanooga and East Tennessee at all hazards. For that purpose he ordered the concentration of three armies there, under one commander, and on the 16th of October, 1863. anLongstreet followed as rapidly as possible. Wheeler and Forrest had failed to seize the height on which works had been thrown up on the south side of the Holston, owing to the gallant bearing of some. of the troops of General W. P. Sanders, of Kentucky, who was in immediate command at Knoxville. Knoxville is on the northern bank of the Holston River, one of the main streams that form the Tennessee-River, and a large portion of it stands on a table-land, 150 feet above the river, about a mil
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 8: Civil affairs in 1863.--military operations between the Mountains and the Mississippi River. (search)
eorgia, 241. Forrest's assigned duties, 242. Forrest's raid into Kentucky, 243. he is repulsed at Paducah, 244. he attacks Fort Pillow, 24 Grimes, James Harlan. Kansas.--James H. Lane, Samuel C. Pomeroy. Kentucky.--Lazarus W. Powell, Garrett Davis. Maine.--Lot M. Morrill, Willirinnell, John A. Kasson, A. W. Hubbard. Kansas.--A. Carter Wilder. Kentucky.--Lucien Anderson, George H. Yeaman, Henry Grider, Aaron Harding, ys after Palmer fell back from before Dalton. He extended it into Kentucky, and, under the inspiration of the tone of feeling and action amon, rested a little at Jackson, and then pushed on March 23. toward Kentucky. He sent Colonel Faulkner to capture Union City, a fortified town it was supposed, of either making another raid into Tennessee and Kentucky, or re-enforcing Johnston, then contending hotly with Sherman in N. It raised a storm of indignation in Congress, and Wickliffe, of Kentucky, asked the Secretary of War, through a resolution of the House of
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 10: the last invasion of Missouri.--events in East Tennessee.--preparations for the advance of the Army of the Potomac. (search)
ginia Morgan in East Tennessee, 282. his last raid into Kentucky he receives a staggering blow, 283. the author in the gce were occurring in the hilly country of Central and Eastern Kentucky and in East Tennessee, before we proceed to a consideo feeble to oppose them, was sent over the mountains into Kentucky to raid through that State, and, if possible, divert somee summer of 1864. At the close of May, Morgan entered Kentucky by way of Pound Gap, May 29, 1864. with about twenty-fiv enabled to sweep rapidly through the eastern counties of Kentucky, from Johnson to Harrison, by way of Paintville on the weding East Tennessee, at the time Burnside entered it from Kentucky, he had his Headquarters at the pleasant House of the unfoute of railway being yet in ruins. Morgan's raid into Kentucky, though disastrous to his immediate command, accomplishedf the great railway. Burbridge remained several weeks in Kentucky after his expulsion of Morgan, reorganizing and remountin
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 11: advance of the Army of the Potomac on Richmond. (search)
captured a company of Union soldiers, but on his return he was struck a severe blow by General Averill, not far from Romney, and driven entirely out of the new Commonwealth, with a loss of his prisoners and a large proportion of his own men and horses. Ten days afterward, Champe Ferguson, one of the most notorious of the lower order of guerrilla leaders, was surprised while at the Rock House, in Wayne County, of West Virginia, by Colonel Gallup, who was in command on the eastern border of Kentucky. Ferguson and fifty of his men were made prisoners, and fifteen others were killed. A few days before that, Lieutenant Verdigan, one of Ferguson's followers, with ten men, surprised and captured a steamboat on the Kanawha River, on board of which was General Scammon (then commanding at Charleston, in the Kanawha Valley), four officers and twenty-five private soldiers. All but Scammon and his two aids were paroled by the guerrillas. These officers were sent to Richmond and confined in th
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 14: Sherman's campaign in Georgia. (search)
honorable custody of a peaceful ordnance sergeant: seized and made prisoners of war the very garrisons sent to protect your people against negroes and Indians, long before any overt act by the (to you) hateful Lincoln Government; tried to force Kentucky and Missouri into rebellion in spite of themselves; falsified the vote of Louisiana; turned loose your privateers to plunder unarmed ships; expelled Union families by the thousand; burned their houses, and declared by act of Congress the confisc from the front of Petersburg and Richmond, to assume the command of the cavalry of the army, and he was sent back to Nashville, with various dismounted detachments, with orders to collect and put in fighting order all the mounted men serving in Kentucky and Tennessee, and report to General Thomas. Thus the latter officer was furnished with strength believed to be sufficient to keep Hood out of Tennessee; and he was invested with unlimited discretionary powers in the use of his material. Sherm
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 15: Sherman's March to the sea.--Thomas's campaign in Middle Tennessee.--events in East Tennessee. (search)
had escaped across the Tennessee at Bainbridge, evading the gun-boats which Admiral S. P. Lee had sent up the river, at Thomas's request, to intercept him. While Hood was investing Nashville, he sent a cavalry force, under General Lyon, into Kentucky, to operate on the Louisville railroad. General Thomas detached General McCook's cavalry division, and sent it in pursuit of Lyon. McCook attacked and routed a part of Lyon's forces at Hopkinsville, when the latter commenced a hasty retreat. Cre. These important works were now utterly destroyed, while spoils, in the shape of cannon, ammunition, and railway rolling stock, fell into Stoneman's hands. The object of the expedition having been accomplished, General Burbridge returned to Kentucky, and General Stoneman, with Gillem's command, went back to Knoxville. The writer visited Nashville, and the battle-field in its vicinity, at the beginning of May, 1866, after a voyage on the Cumberland to Fort Donelson and back, See page 2
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 16: career of the Anglo-Confederate pirates.--closing of the Port of Mobile — political affairs. (search)
is organization in Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky, in co-operation with a force under Price, who was to invbeen crushed by a bullet, in the battle of Perryville, in Kentucky. In the Democratic Convention, a committee composed ofd to prepare a platform of principles. James Guthrie, of Kentucky, was chosen its chairman. Vallandigham was the ruling spard adjourned, but did not dissolve. Mr. Wickliffe, of Kentucky, after saying, that circumstances might make it necessaryote of only the two late slave-labor States, Delaware and Kentucky, and the State of New Jersey. The offer of sympathy and were all Democrats, namely: Delaware--Riddle, Saulsbury; Kentucky--Davis, Powell; Indiana--Hendricks; California--McDougallis, Thomas, Webster; West Virginia--Blair, Brown, Whaley; Kentucky--Anderson, Kendall, Smith, Yeaman; Ohio--Ashley, Eckley, nson, Miller, Randall, Styles, Strause; Maryland--Harris; Kentucky--Clay, Grider, Harding, Malloy, Wadsworth; Ohio--Bliss, C
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