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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1,788 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 514 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. 260 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 194 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 168 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore) 166 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition. 152 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. 150 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 132 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 122 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: October 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], The salt works of the Confederate States. (search)
hel. Hence, the repeal by the Congress of the old duty on foreign salt, and the welcome given to any new cargo of this vital article. According to reports of the Treasury, this importation of salt was about 13,000,000 of bushels during the year 1854-55, and during 1855-56 it has been 15,405, 864 bushels. In the following years, 17,000,000 of bushels have been imported, though the domestic production from the salt springs had increased progressively up to 12.000,000, either in Virginia, Pennsylvania, or the State of New York. This domestic production is now supplying nearly two-fifths of the late Union; and, though unfit for provisions and fisheries, still it prevents the foreign salt from ruling the Northwestern market. Salt springs are also numerous in many of the Southern States, but generally under circumstances very unfavorable to the cheapness, abundance, and easy transportation of their products. Consequently these States ought to rely for their own consumption or trade