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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1,788 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 514 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 I. 260 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 194 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 168 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore) 166 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition. 152 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. 150 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 132 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 122 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: February 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], Steamboat accident and loss of life. (search)
Steamboat accident and loss of life. --It has already been mentioned that five lives were lost by the burning of the steamer Charmer, on the night of the 10th inst., between Vicksburg and New Orleans. Among those supposed to be lost are Dr. Milligan and wife, of Pennsylvania; a man named Green. believed to be a New Orleans merchant, and Ambrose Davie and wife, a young married couple. N. M. Lee, of Richmond, Va., is among the saved.
The Daily Dispatch: February 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], The oil discoveries in Western Virginia. (search)
any other section of the United States yet explored.--While the work of development of this region is but just commenced, the few wells completed, but six in number, already give a larger yield of oil than the hundreds which have been sunk in Pennsylvania; and will probably never be surpassed except by other wells in the same neighborhood. The presence of Petroleum oil in this region has been known for years. A deposit of it, found on Hughes' River, a few feet below the surface, in a veiil considered, until within the past few months, almost a nuisance, from its continual presence in the water, rendering it unpalatable, and to some extent unfit for domestic use. The first oil well in this region was opened by a firm from Pennsylvania. These gentlemen, surmising from the appearance of the country, the great quantity of surface oil and gas, and other infallible signs, that a large amount of oil lay imbedded below, leased the old Rathbone Salt Well, cleaned it out, put in a