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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 593 9 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. 106 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) 90 4 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 46 0 Browse Search
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 35 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 32 0 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 32 2 Browse Search
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George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 1 (search)
decided parts, of uncommon quickness of perception and readiness in acquiring knowledge; studious withal, and exceptionally correct in his deportment. This school, as well as the others, he left with the respect and good wishes of the teachers and the affection of his school-mates. His mother, having failed in her first application for an appointment for her son to the Military Academy at West Point, was successful in her second, and in the summer of 1831 George was appointed by President Andrew Jackson to a cadetship, and entered the institution in September of that year, at the age of fifteen years and eight months. He was quite small in stature at this time, slender and delicate in appearance, and there were friends of his family who thought that he would be unequal to the severe training of the academy. His course, during the four years of cadet life, though not brilliant, was creditable. He was much better prepared than the average of those who entered the academy, and he
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 4 (search)
to charge. These were the Kane Rifles (Charley Biddle's regiment) and the Ninth, a very good regiment commanded by a Colonel Jackson. One regiment he could do nothing with—(but this, as well as all that precedes, is entre nous). The fact that the eGeneral Dix (who goes to Fortress Monroe), and make them harmonize with his own. If McDowell can only defeat and capture Jackson, and return here in time to advance on Richmond, Dix go up the James or Appomattox River and seize Petersburg, we will htell what will happen or what combinations occur. camp opposite Fredericksburg, June 6, 1862. You will see that Jackson has escaped up the Valley of the Shenandoah, in spite of the various arrangements made to cut off his retreat. From allIt ought to have pushed on from Front Royal to Strasburg, and not waited, as it would seem it did, till it had news that Jackson was falling back from Strasburg. We have had a continuous rain storm, part of the time very violent; the consequence ha
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), Index. (search)
11, 212, 216. Hunter, R. M. T., II, 258, 259. Hustler, William, I, 3. Hutton, Mr., II, 163. I Imboden, J. D., II, 25, 95. Ingalls, Rufus, II, 392. Ingersoll, Charles J., I, 8. Ingersoll, Harry, I, 85, 193. Ingersoll, Joseph R., I, 96, 150, 181. Ingersolls, I, 99. Ingraham, Charlotte, II, 159. Ingraham, Edward, I, 150, 353. Ingraham, Frank, I, 353; II, 159. Irvine, William, I, 3. Irwin, Capt., I, 21. Iverson, Alfred, II, 48, 50, 59. J Jackson, Andrew, I, 11. Jackson, Conrad F., I, 237, 302, 305, 340. Jackson, T. J. (Stonewall), I, 271, 272, 276, 279, 281, 285, 327. Jacksons, II, 136. Jalapa, battle of, 1847, I, 196. Janeway, Bishop, II, 258. Jastram, Lieut., I, 295. Jay, Mr., II, 272. Jay, Wm., I, 355, 356. Jenkins, Albert G., II, 19, 26, 101, 129. Jenkins, M., I, 287, 289-291. Johnson, Andrew, II, 288, 289, 291, 293, 295. Johnson, Edward, I, 197; II, 19, 24, 26, 57, 69, 90, 91, 92, 99, 101, 102,