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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 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], Queen Victoria (search)
o the means by which it was done. The town, with the exception of two or three houses, is utterly destroyed. It was done, however, by our own people, to prevent its being appropriated to a far worse end than conflagration — that is, the fall and winter abode of Yankees and runaway negroes. The facts, as related to me by reliable persons direct from the place, are, that Gen. Magruder (who, by-the way, has his eyes and ears in their places,) had learned definitely and satisfactorily that Gen. Butler had issued, or was about to issue, an order that the town should be very strongly fortified, and occupied by his troops as their permanent quarters. This was doubtless a part of his "plan for capturing a large number of slaves." Our military men had made one great mistake — though probably at that time it could not have been prevented — in allowing the invaders to occupy Newport News; and now that such a disaster could be prevented, every consideration of policy and strategy demanded tha<
The Daily Dispatch: August 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], Cooling Reflections. (search)
cated courage, and that the educated and intelligent cannoneer possesses an advantage over the trained hireling which years of drilling cannot compensate. Take an example Gen. Magruder's whole force of artillery at the battle of Bethel consisted of Brown's and Stanard's batteries of howitzers, seven pieces in all. It may be doubted whether the world ever witnessed such a cannonade. There certainly never had been up to that time anything like it on this Continent. So tremendous was it that Butler, in his dispatch to Scott, says that Magruder had twenty-five pieces of cannon. A West Point officer, now in the provisional army of Virginia, a man of intelligence and information, particularly upon the subject of artillery, rode over the ground a few days after the fight, and, judging from the signs still existing, pronounced it to have been astounding, and doubted whether there had ever been anything approaching it. Novo Stanard's battery had practiced a few days at Chimborazo with blank
The Daily Dispatch: August 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], Courtship and marriage (search)
cause he wanted one; and the lecturer pointed out the distinction between the man who wants to marry because he has fallen in love, and another who falls in love because he wants to marry. From whatever motive marriage was contracted, it was a most serious step. There was an old saying, and a true one, withal, that no man was thoroughly ruined unless he were badly married. As regards finesse for the marriage relation, the lecturer believed that a woman who was wise enough to understand. "Butler's Analogy," and housewife enough to cook an apple dumping was fit to become a wife. The doctor was of opinion that there was not much need for young folks to wait until they got comparatively rich before they married, but contended that they would be improved by having a few difficulties to contend with now and in the outset of life. As for the great obedience question," he rested on the philosophy contained in the following quaint epitaph, placed many years ago over the graves of a husban