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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 36 0 Browse Search
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee 18 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 16 2 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 16 0 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 10: The Armies and the Leaders. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 12 0 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 10 0 Browse Search
G. S. Hillard, Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-General , U. S. Army 10 0 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 10 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 10 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. 8 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: August 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], Cooling Reflections. (search)
"A man may fight none the worse for having said his prayers before going into battle," said old Allen, in the novel of "Old Mortality. "--The Crimean war proves the veteran's theory to be correct. The British troops on that occasion were of a condition far superior, socially and intellectually, to any that had taken the field since the introduction of standing armies. It is true, they had no Marlborough and no Wellington to command them, and that therefore we hear of no Blenheim and no Waterloo. But the individual British soldier fought better than he ever did, and he was far more enlightened, far more polished, and a far better member of society than his predecessor, who made the fame and the fortunes of the illustrious chiefs we have just named. The incidents of the present war tend more than anything that has heretofore occurred, to confirm the truth established by the results of the war in the Crimea. The Yankees claim to be of the same stock with ourselves. Their armi