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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 6,437 1 Browse Search
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation 1,858 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 766 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 310 0 Browse Search
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 302 0 Browse Search
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States 300 0 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) 266 0 Browse Search
Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley 224 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition. 222 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. 214 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: December 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Truth of history. (search)
wished a wider field for the display of their abilities than was afforded by a country governed by another country three thousand miles off, and through the hatred which the Yankees always have entertained, and will always entertain, towards Great Britain. The Stamp Act and the duty on tea, and the principle they involved, were nothing to the Yankees. They bated and envied the English; they felt rebuked in their presence, and they wished to get rid of them. That lay at the bottom of the waryland. These States had felt none of the grievances of which the Yankees complained. They were well satisfied with their condition; but they determined to stand by the Yankees in their struggle with the vast power and unbounded resources of Great Britain, come of it what might. One of these States--South Carolina, said as much when she joined the Confederacy and all the others, if they did not say so, yet acted from the same motive. Southern troops were present in every important battle fou
The Daily Dispatch: December 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], Attempted Murder of a mother and Daughter. (search)
all to bear the name of flag. We knew the flag we had to fight: yet, instead of getting as far from it, we were guilty of the hugs mistake of getting as near to it, as possible. We sought similarity. Adopting a principle diametrically wrong, we made a flag as nearly like their's as could, under favorable circumstances, be distinguished from it. Under unfavorable circumstances, (such as constantly occur in practice,) the two flags are indistinguishable. In the wars of the Roses in Great Britain one side adopted the white and the other the red rose. Suppose that our side had adopted milk white and the other flesh white, or one deep pink and the other a lighter shade of pink, would there have been any and to the confusion? When a body of men is approaching in time of war, it is rather an important matter to ascertain, if practicable, whether they are friends or foes. Certainly no question could well be more radical in its influence upon our action, plane, and movement