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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 68 28 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 64 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore) 39 3 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore) 19 1 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Battles 18 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 17 1 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 16 0 Browse Search
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862., Part II: Correspondence, Orders, and Returns. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott) 16 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 11 3 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. 7 1 Browse Search
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hour at times, and rates of speed equaling or surpassing this soon became common on English passenger trains. A train on the Chicago and Northwestern Railway recently ran 91 miles in 90 minutes. The quickest prior runs recorded in the United States are 14 miles in 11 minutes, by an engine and six cars, on the New York Central; 10 miles in 7 1/4 minutes, on the Pennsylvania Railway; 144 miles in 2 hours 49 minutes, on the Hudson River Railway; 84 miles in 90 minutes, from Indianapolis to Union City; 305 miles in 7 hours 42 minutes, from Albany to Niagara. In ordinary running time, however, the English railways undoubtedly surpass all others. Between Paddington and Swin- don, on the Great Western Railway of England, the distance is 77 3/4 miles, and both the up and down trains travel it in 87 minutes, including the starting and stopping, or at the rate of 53.62 miles per hour. At full pace, the speed is as nearly as possible a mile a minute. The new express-train from Plymout