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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2 1,039 11 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 833 7 Browse Search
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1 656 14 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 580 0 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 459 3 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 435 13 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 355 1 Browse Search
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders. 352 2 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 333 7 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 330 2 Browse Search
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he South, compared with which the "Grand Army" is mere moon shine. There is not a branch of business, genuine or counterfeit, that will not be established here by Northern agents, under high-sounding Southern names. "Dixie Land" corporations conducted by Cape Cod operators; "True Southron" mercantile and manufacturing establishments filled up with representatives of Boston, Lowell and Lynn; "Old Dominion" academies and seminaries under the superintendence of some Praise God Bare bones; "Jeff. Davis" or " Beauregard" Life Insurance Societies, which will be owned and conducted by some of the Yankee ex-colonels or high privates who are now trying to put us all to death. While Jonathan appears in the character of an open enemy we have nothing to fear. In the way of swindling, robbing, and confiscation, he has now accomplished his worst. As John Quincy Adams once said of a man who had taken him in--"he has deceived us once, that was his fault; if he deceives us again, it will be our o
nt--the New Postage Stamps. We saw yesterday, at the Post-Office Department, the design of the new five-cent stamp, which has just been adopted to meet the public requirements. The issue has been delayed in order to procure an engraving not liable to be counterfeiled, which is no easy matter where there is no engraver on steel to be bad. The present design comes from a lithographic establishment in this city, and will answer the purpose very well. It is an engraving of the head of President Davis with the words "Confederate States of America" above, and "Five Cents" below. The color of this stamp will be red, while those of larger denominations will be colored differently. They will be ready for printing on Monday next. The business of the Department is very heavy, and when we take into consideration the facts that the whole postal system has to be remodelled in our new Government; that the railroads run by military schedules, and that a myriad of small as well as large m