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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 974 0 Browse Search
John Dimitry , A. M., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.1, Louisiana (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 442 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 288 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) 246 0 Browse Search
A Roster of General Officers , Heads of Departments, Senators, Representatives , Military Organizations, &c., &c., in Confederate Service during the War between the States. (ed. Charles C. Jones, Jr. Late Lieut. Colonel of Artillery, C. S. A.) 216 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. 192 0 Browse Search
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2 166 0 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 146 0 Browse Search
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 144 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 136 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: August 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], For hire. (search)
submerge New Orleans by simply making a breach in one of the levees, a Southern contemporary shows very conclusively that the thing cannot be done. It demonstrates that to effectually overflow the delta, alluvial, cane producing region of Louisiana, the enemy would have, first, to build a levee dyke all along its gulf shore for some hundreds of miles — say, from Berwick's Bay round the mouth of the Mississippi, which they would have to dam up, along the borders of Lake Bourne, Lake Pontchearly up to the Mississippi State line. Having accomplished this, which would be necessary to prevent the water from running off, they would have to wait for a high stage of water in the Mississippi, and then they could out the levee, and "Louisiana would be drowned out" over about one-sixth of its extent. When a quantity of water overflows, or escapes through a break in the levee, it runs back into the country, and seeks one of the channels mentioned, which runs nearly parallel with
The Daily Dispatch: August 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 15 (search)
Harnett Quinn, a member of the Hewitt Garfield, of Louisiana, was badly injured by falling from a train on the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, last Saturday night.
The Daily Dispatch: August 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], A Regiment of Louisiana Cavally for the war. (search)
A Regiment of Louisiana Cavally for the war. --We learn from the Baton Rouge Advocate that the Hon B L. Hodge, who was 5 Lieutenant in the Shreveport Grays, now stationed in Yorktown, Va, has resigned his position and returned home to raise a regiment of cavalry for the Confederate services. The enterprise, of course, has the countenance and authority of the War Department.