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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 836 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 690 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. 532 0 Browse Search
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army 480 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 406 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 350 0 Browse Search
Wiley Britton, Memoirs of the Rebellion on the Border 1863. 332 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 322 0 Browse Search
Col. John M. Harrell, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.2, Arkansas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 310 0 Browse Search
Col. John C. Moore, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 9.2, Missouri (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 294 0 Browse Search
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at, but a disaster and a disgrace.--To Irishmen the reflection that our exiled fellow-countrymen are on both sides, is melanancholy. The son of John Mitchell may have crossed words with Thomas Francis Meagher. Yankee accounts of Affairs in Missouri. Ironton, Mo., Aug. 20. --General Prentiss has been assigned to the command of the division embracing Cape Girardeau and Bird's Point. General Grant has been ordered to Jefferson City. The Confederates on the St. Francis river are said in the service of the United States if the members so desire. The following is the form of oath to be administered to the militia: "You, each and every one of you, do solemnly swear that you will honestly and faithfully serve the State of Missouri against all her enemies, and that you will do your utmost to sustain the Constitution and the law of the United States and of this State; and you do further swear that you will truly execute and obey the legal orders of all officers propert
iana troops, the Arkansas, the Texans and Missourian rivaled each other in this great and bloody day. For six long hours the palm of victory remained undecided. Seven times Lyon was repulsed from the Western heights by the Missouri and Arkansas forces, and seven times regained his position. He had a strong force of regulars posted with Potten's battery around his person. The Missouri troops at the North the Louisiana troops at the Southeast and South and General Weightman's brigade of Missouri forces at the Southwest, including his fine battery of artillery — having been victorious at each point — rallied to the heights on the West to support General Slack's division which had borne the of the fight to that time for five or six hours unsupported.--General Price and General Slack were both actively and gallantly urging forward this column when General Slack was severely wounded and taken from the field. General Price was slightly wounded also, but not disabled. He continue
The war in Missouri. The following is the official report of Col. Merritt, of the First Iowa Regiment: J. M. Schofield, Acting Adjutant General: Dear Sir: I have the honor to submit the following report of the part taken by the Iowa troops in the late hotly contested battle of "Wilson's Creek;" At six o'clock, P. M., on the 9th instant, the First Regiment of Iowa volunteers, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel William H. Merritt, Colonel J. F. Bates being sick, unit Before concluding this report, I must bear testimony to the gallant and meritorious conduct of Captain A L. Mason, of Company C, who fell in a charge at the head of his company. William H. Merritt Lieutenant Colonel Commanding. Northeast Missouri. The St. Louis Republican of the 18th says: The steamboat Jeanie Deans, which arrived on Saturday morning, brought a report from Canton, on the authority of a letter to Col. Bissel, that Gen. Harris had united with Martin Green, m
Resignation of Federal officers. Boston, August 24 --The following officers of the frigate Congress have resigned:--Captain of Marines, Robert Faucett, of Virginia; Second Lieutenant, Thos. P. Wilson, of Missouri; Midshipmen, H. B. Cuyborn and Hillary D. Cass, of New Orleans.
Missouri. Lyon could not be reinforced. Washington Aug. 23 --The Government is satisfied that Gen. Fremont could not have reinforced Gen. Lyon without endangering Eastern Missouri. Gen. M'Culloch's proclamation. St. Louis Aug. 23 --Gen. Ben McCulloch, under date 15th inst., issues a proclamation tending to quiet the fears of Union men. He also issued a general order, thanking the army for their gallant conduct, and characterizes their achievement as glorious and brilliaEastern Missouri. Gen. M'Culloch's proclamation. St. Louis Aug. 23 --Gen. Ben McCulloch, under date 15th inst., issues a proclamation tending to quiet the fears of Union men. He also issued a general order, thanking the army for their gallant conduct, and characterizes their achievement as glorious and brilliant. Mr. Brownlee has been released on the condition that he will resign his office, leave the city, and remove to a free State. Republican accounts of Confederate movements--they lie about their loss at Springfield. St. Louis August 23. --Two released prisoners, arrived from Springfield, reports that on Thursday, after the battle, General McCulloch moved after General Siegel; but, learning that he was reinforced, he moved towards Jefferson City. Quite a number of the wounded o
Republican tyranny. The brutal tyranny exercised by the Lincolnites in Maryland, Missouri, and wherever they have been able to obtain a foothold; the atrocities equalled only by those of the Sepays which their soldiery have committed, and the unheard of deed of despotism and darkness with which they threaten the South, have dissipated forever the complacent notion once so prevalent that America was the most civilized, humane and freedom-loving of modern nations. This can no longer be presented of the Northern States. The very people who claim to be the freest of all others have shown themselves the most cruel and despotic, and the sanctimonious men who are eternally talking about benighted Europeans and sending missionaries and colporteurs to elevate them to their own high religious standard, have proved themselves as beastly and degraded as the South- Sea Islanders. There is no despot in Europe who ever showed himself as merciless and implacable as Abraham Lincoln, and no mob
Missouri. This State, which can boast of some of the street and bravest men in the Southern confederacy, continues her herculean efforts throw off the thraldom of Lincoln and his mercenaries. The telegraph is altogether controlled by Lincoln men; yet, even giving show that the States-Rights der Ben McCulloch and his able colleagues, are making headway and filling his enemies with fear. Those enemies are is their types, the hogs in winter, who, is see the keen blast before it reaches and equal terribly.