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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 84 0 Browse Search
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1 72 2 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 57 1 Browse Search
Elias Nason, McClellan's Own Story: the war for the union, the soldiers who fought it, the civilians who directed it, and his relations to them. 49 3 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 45 3 Browse Search
John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History 39 3 Browse Search
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 38 4 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. 36 2 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 34 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. 31 3 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: August 31, 1861., [Electronic resource], Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch. (search)
From Norfolk. [Special Correspondence of the Dispatch.] Norfolk, Aug. 29th, 1861. The Federal fleet that sailed from Old Point a few days ago, and mentioned in my last letter, is said to have gone to Roanoke Island, N. C., about 100 miles south of Cape Henry. This small Island is situated to the eastward of Tyrell county, and is surrounded by a vast sheet of water which connects Albemarle and Pamilco Sounds, and too shallow, of course, for large vessels.* I learn that Simon Cameron, Federal Secretary of War, whose brother was killed at Manassas, is the same individual who, about ten years ago, was connected with the Gosport Iron Works, on the opposite side of the river, and a few hundred feet from the entrance to the Navy-Yard. He was concerned with A. Mahaffey, of Pennsylvania. They got the contract for building the machinery for the U. S. steamer Powhatan, and the work was done, for which the concern received ample remuneration. They bought valuable property in a