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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 16,340 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 3,098 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 2,132 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 1,974 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 1,668 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 1,628 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) 1,386 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 1,340 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. 1,170 0 Browse Search
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 1,092 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: January 29, 1862., [Electronic resource], Late Northern and Southern news. (search)
an be carried out, not under the direction of incompetent militia officers, as ignorant of tactics as they are of the Kamchatka language, but by respectable and efficient drill masters, chosen from the army for the specific purpose. The Confederate States could thus be rendered one vast military camp of amateur soldiers, ready upon the first call to fill up the thinned ranks of the national army. We certainly have the men, and, with our present population of 8,000,000 whites, can put in they bales of cotton and about one hundred and fifty barrels of turpentine.--The captain of the schooner Ann Smith, and some civilians who were captured, were released, after two days imprisonment, on taking the oath not to bear arms against the United States. The Yankees did not bombard the town, as has been reported, but destroyed all the property within their reach. It is supposed that they were informed, in reference to the property and unprotected condition of the place, by fishermen in the
The Daily Dispatch: January 29, 1862., [Electronic resource], Late Northern and Southern news. (search)
on the emancipation question has completely alienated from its sympathies the Abolition element of English society — an element which, even if favorable to the United States, has not influence enough to shape or control the policy of Great Britain in matters vital to her interests. It is impossible to find in the history of En does not see this? Who does not perceive that the established success of the Southern Confederacy will render England, in the first place, independent of the United States for cotton; that, next, it will throw the rich carrying trade of the South into her hands; that next, it will relieve her trade to those States of the heavy taies. If she is slow, it is simply because she acts with discretion and characteristic prudence and circumspection; but she has already gone so far against the United States that it is wiser and safer and more discreet to go farther, even though it be to the arbitrament of arms, than to retrace her steps. She known that the coward
The Daily Dispatch: January 29, 1862., [Electronic resource], General Assembly of Virginia. (search)
others. Mr. Douglas introduced a bill authorizing the Governor to raise a force in Western Virginia for local defence. Resolutions. By Mr. Ball: Referring to the Committee on Finance to inquire as to the expediency of amending the Ordinance of the Convention "in relation to the rate of interest on State bonds," so as to provide for the payment of interest on the bonds of the State held and owned by loyal citizens of the Southern States as are not yet in alliance with the Confederate States. By Mr. Corbill: Of refunding to John W. Myer, of Amherst county, the amount of a license tax paid by him, which license was never used, he having, immediately after obtaining it, entered the military service of the State. Resolutions accordingly referred. The Senate bill, reported yesterday from the Committee on Finance, to amend and re-enact the 13th section of chapter 42 of the Code, in relation to executions levied on lands in favor of the Commonwealth, was reported back
The Daily Dispatch: January 29, 1862., [Electronic resource], Amusements. (search)
es may be hold, and there take such measures as may be needful to provide for the wants, and contribute to the comfort of such prisoners, at the expense of the United States, to such extent as may be permitted by the authorities under whom such prisoners are hold. Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War. The capture of Biloxi. --The Navy Department has received dispatches from Flag Officer McKean, dated Ship Island, January 8, in which he reports the arrival at that place of the United States steamer Mercedits, and the United States gun-boats Winona and Sagamore. By the first named he had received the communication of the Secretary of the Navy, andUnited States gun-boats Winona and Sagamore. By the first named he had received the communication of the Secretary of the Navy, and says, in accordance therewith, he shall dispatch the frigate Potomac to Vera Cruz. Having been informed on the 31st of December, that a rebel steamer was at anchor near Biloxi, he dispatched Commander Smith, with the steamers Water Witch, New London, and Henry Lewis, to endeavor to capture her; but upon reaching Biloxi it was