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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 18 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 12 0 Browse Search
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2 6 0 Browse Search
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States 6 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: December 30, 1865., [Electronic resource] 6 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: October 31, 1861., [Electronic resource] 6 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore) 4 0 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 4 0 Browse Search
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 4 0 Browse Search
Baron de Jomini, Summary of the Art of War, or a New Analytical Compend of the Principle Combinations of Strategy, of Grand Tactics and of Military Policy. (ed. Major O. F. Winship , Assistant Adjutant General , U. S. A., Lieut. E. E. McLean , 1st Infantry, U. S. A.) 4 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: October 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Buy pretty Polly! (search)
r gentleman looks in the same way through the half-open door, Polly cries: "Ah, there you are, Mr."--,and always stops — it knows the name is not "Clarke," But this same Polly was the property of a sailor, who must have been a bit of a coward in a stiff no'-wester; and when the wind blows hard, the bird will cry by the hour together in the most distressed and supplicatory tones: "Lord have mercy on Bob Barnard!" attaching, of course, just as little meaning to its words as one of its kind in Antwerp, which repeats the Paternoster and Ave Maria exactly as if it were saving a rosary — a pious accomplishment it required from being, like the famous Vertvert, pet-parrot to a convent. The facility with which my pretty Polly picks up inarticulate sounds is really astonishing. Distant street-cries, conversations with great variety of voice and tone, yet without any articulate utterance, the creaking of a gate, the rolling gravel with a garden roller, running-water, coughing, sneezing, &c