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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 42 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 36 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 34 0 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 30 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 28 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 28 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 28 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 24 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. 24 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 22 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: July 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway in jail. (search)
The last battle. We give in another column such particulars as we have been able to gather of the battle in Western Virginia, between a few hundred heroic Virginians and an immensely superior force-- stated by some accounts as high as twelve thousand--who were held at bay by our Spartan band for two hours, an achievement which was never surpassed in the best days of Greece and Rome, and which should inspire with encouragement and emulation every Southern bosom. Our deepest sympathies are with the friends of those glorious men who have fallen in defence of their native land, but who have left behind them a name--one which will be as grand and imperishable as the mountains which they have consecrated with their pure and noble blood. It is now evident, as we have long believe, that the real demonstration against Virginia is to be made in the West by McClellan's column, which some accounts represent at more than 30,000 men. It ought to be easy to defend the passes of the Allegh
The Daily Dispatch: July 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Good News (search)
lves into the breach to stem the tide of Northern invasion, until this day, when they have in the field a splendid army of fifty thousand men, under command of one of the ablest and most distinguished Generals in the service, they have participated in every battle and skirmish with the enemy, and in every case but one the main causes of victory were due to them. At Fairfax Court-House, Aquia Creek, Pigs' Point, Mathias' Point, New Creek, and Romney, our forces were composed principally of Virginians. Their artillery companies did very much towards gaining the battle of Great Bethel and the fight at Vienna, and they were well represented at Sewell's Point. The gallantry of such men as Jackson, the hero of Alexandria; the brothers Ashby, who slew Hessians at Romney as Richard Cœur de Leon slew infidels in Palestine, and Capt. Marr, is not outshone in the annals of the old Revolution." It gives us pleasure to witness this generous appreciation of Virginia, an appreciation which,