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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 214 214 Browse Search
The Atlanta (Georgia) Campaign: May 1 - September 8, 1864., Part I: General Report. (ed. Maj. George B. Davis, Mr. Leslie J. Perry, Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley) 44 44 Browse Search
Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865 28 28 Browse Search
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2 21 21 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. 17 17 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. 10 10 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: August 28, 1861., [Electronic resource] 9 9 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 9 9 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 9 9 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 9 9 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: September 2, 1861., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for August 27th or search for August 27th in all documents.

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ern accounts of skirmishes must be read with due allowance for the proneness to falsehood existing in the enemy's country: Tuesday's skirmish in Fairfax. The following is from the Washington correspondence of the New York Herald, dated August 27: Yesterday a picket guard of fifty of the Thirty-eighth New York Volunteers, under Captain Dennett, were sent out from their camp, near the Fairfax Theological Seminary, to Bailey's Cross Roads, about five miles distant. Captain Dencett pld they were turned over to General Banks for a further examination. This forenoon continued reports of heavy ordnance were heard, apparently in the vicinity of Washington. The cause has not transpired yet in camp. Point of Rocks, Md., Aug. 27. --We have just received important information here, stating that an attack was made on the Tammany regiment of Col. Stone's brigade, ten miles below this point, at Edward's Ferry, early on Saturday morning. We have not received full particu
the remainder. It is stated to be their intention to take up sufficient of the track to connect Winchester with Strasburg. There was no strong force in either Jefferson or Berkeley county. The property of the Union people had not yet been confiscated or molested up to the time my informant left. Vague rumors have circulated here to-day to the effect that the enemy were about to make a demonstration at Edwards' or Nolan's Ferry. From Missouri. Rolla, Mo., (via Franklin, Mo,) Aug. 27 --Letters received from Col. Boyd, by his wife, say that the report prevailed in Springfield that an attack had been made on Montgomery's force at Fort Scott, and that he successfully repulsed the Confederates A small force started from this place yesterday to disperse a body of Confederates at Hanes' Prairie, sixteen miles North. A sharp cannonading was heard in that direction this morning. Various Telegrams. Bridgeport,Conn., Aug. 28 --The Sheriff of this county w
with the Southern army. I have had no aspirations, I assure you, for either a crown of martyrdom, or any such laurels as your correspondent would encircle my brow with; but have been residing very quickly, with my family, in the place from which this letter is dated, for the last two weeks, exclusively occupied with domestic concerns. May I ask you to contradict, &c. Yours, respectfully. Mary B Gwin, England and the South. Dispatch to the New York Tribunes: Washington, August 27,--Mr. Adams, Minister at St. James, writes that in the British mind the independence of the rebels is fully admitted as a military and political necessity; that their acknowledgment by England is but a question of like and prudent courtesy. That while Britain is impatient to get cotton from the South, in exchange for manufactured goods, she is anxious not to lose Northern markets, and is unwilling to part with her hope of breaking down the Morrill tariff, by the same means with which