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Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3 309 19 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2 309 19 Browse Search
General Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant 170 20 Browse Search
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary 117 33 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 65 11 Browse Search
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 62 2 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 36 2 Browse Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 34 12 Browse Search
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee 29 3 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 29 3 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Gen. McClellan and the Press. (search)
From Fortress Monroe. The Black Republican correspondent of the Northern Associated Press communicates the following: Fortress Monroe, Aug. 6.--General Butler returned to Old Point this morning. Nothing has yet transpired as to his remaining here, but it is understood that the Federal army at Fortress Monroe is to ir proper complement of members or were rejected by the Union Defence Committee of the Government For the rest, the Government has been compelled to draw upon General Butler for the means of keeping up the army in Washington to anything like its former numbers, and replacing in Baltimore the regiments which have gone home. The forces under Butler's command, by consequence, are reduced to less than 2,500 men, and that portion of the Government's plan of conquest and subjugation which contemplated an advance upon Richmond from Yorktown, will have to be "indefinitely postponed." From similar causes "Gen. Banks' column"--so called, probably, from the fact tha
The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Current events. (search)
e men out of their pay, I would state that the rolls of my company have been made out since Thursday last, and are ready at any time the United States Paymaster may require them. Incident of the evacuation of Hampton. A New York paper says: Harry Pearson, the actor, well known in New York, has turned tavern keeper.--He last week started a restaurant at Hampton, Virginia, furnished it well, and was ready to commence operations, whet the rumor of the enemy's approach induced Gen. Butler to order the evacuation of Hampton — Pearson is said to have filled a cart with his most precious treasures, including a negro, and hurried away; as the rumors came closer, the wagon went on at a marvellous rate, Pearson on one horse and the negro on another — quite a picture for a comic actor to remember. If he can reproduce it on the stage some day, it will doubtless be highly applauded. [If this flying actor should ever happen to come into Dixie's Land in his theatrical peregrin
The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Current events. (search)
Generals Pierce and Butler. --We alluded on Saturday to the statement published by Brigadier General Pierce, of Massachusetts, in regard to the Bethel fight. He claims to have acted throughout under Butler's orders, and thus places the onus of the defeat upon the shoulders of that mighty General. In conclusion, General Pierce says that "after the battle had taken place, and public opinion had fastened on me the opprobrium of the defeat, I applied for a court of inquiry, that the facts miButler's orders, and thus places the onus of the defeat upon the shoulders of that mighty General. In conclusion, General Pierce says that "after the battle had taken place, and public opinion had fastened on me the opprobrium of the defeat, I applied for a court of inquiry, that the facts might be set aright, and the blame, if there was any, rest on the proper officer. In answer to my application — nay, my demand — I received but one reply, that a court of inquiry would reveal far too much that would injure the service