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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1,057 5 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 114 0 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 106 2 Browse Search
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 72 0 Browse Search
John Esten Cooke, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of War. 70 0 Browse Search
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee 67 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 60 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. 58 0 Browse Search
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade) 56 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 54 2 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: August 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 7 (search)
tizens into jail, refuse to exchange prisoners, and threaten to hang all persons caught in arms against his majesty? Have not Lincoln and his myridoms done the very same thing? Did not Sir Wm. Howe address a letter on official business to "Geo. Washington, Esq.?" --Did not Gen. Washington refuse to receive it? Has not the act of the British General been always stigmatized by American writers as a very small affair? Has it not been copied by Lincoln's Secretary of War, in apparent anxiety toGen. Washington refuse to receive it? Has not the act of the British General been always stigmatized by American writers as a very small affair? Has it not been copied by Lincoln's Secretary of War, in apparent anxiety to imitate his model as closely as possible? In the war with Napoleon, England declared the whole coast of France and her allies, from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, in a state of blockade, though it would have taken all the ships in the world to have blockaded it. What has Lincoln done but the very same thing which the King in Council then did, and that although he represents a Government which at that time very nearly went to war with England for attempting to enforce the blockade in que
The Daily Dispatch: August 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 8 (search)
tic aspirations by resuming the active duties of the camp and field. We confess a little vanity mingles with our apparent hospitality, for we want to show our Southern friends our magnificent mountain scenery, in rich and varied picturesqueness, rivalling that of Switzerland; the Natural Bridge, that sublime master-piece of Nature's masonry; that noble institution, the Virginia Military Institute, the most imposing edifice in the State; the bronze copy of Houdon's fae simile statue of Washington; the venerable College of Washington, endowed by the Father of his Country, and now nobly represented in the field by the Liberty Hall Volunteers--the flower of our youth; our decent churches and school houses; our fertile farms and snug dwellings; our green meadows and bending orchards; our cold springs and clear streams; and last, but not least, our sturdy, flaxen-haired boys, and our red-cheeked and bright-eyed mountain girls. In our unsophisticated mountain homes, (where we affect