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Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1,742 0 Browse Search
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States 1,016 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 996 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 516 0 Browse Search
A Roster of General Officers , Heads of Departments, Senators, Representatives , Military Organizations, &c., &c., in Confederate Service during the War between the States. (ed. Charles C. Jones, Jr. Late Lieut. Colonel of Artillery, C. S. A.) 274 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 180 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 172 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. 164 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 142 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 130 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: February 17, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Norfolk. (search)
is still raging with great fury on both sides. A prisoner belonging to the 30th Illinois regiment, says that the Federal forces number 50,000, and are commanded by Gen. McClernand. Our boys are fighting with great gallantry, and driving the enemy as they go. Eleven A. M.--We have captured three of the enemy's batteries and repulsed them everywhere. The loss is reputed to be heavy on both sides, but the Yankee loss is much the greatest. The troops from Tennessee, Mississippi, Texas, Alabama, and elsewhere, are fighting most gallantly. Twelve and a half o'clock.--We think we can safely say that the enemy's loss is tremendous. About two hundred Yankee prisoners have just been brought in, and they report that a number of their regiments are nearly annihilated. One and a half o'clock P. M.--We fought the enemy outside of our entrenchments from 5,50 this morning until one o'clock this afternoon, driving him inch by inch on every point in the field, capturing four pieces
The Daily Dispatch: February 17, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Norfolk. (search)
Runaway --A negro boy by the name of Floyd, has been staying with his young master at Evansport, and was taken sick and started home with a man by the name of Dr. H. W. Hunt, and the train left him at Burksville, Va. The said boy is about 35 years of age, dark complexion, about 5 feet 8 or 10 inches high.--His general weight is about 150 pounds. Any person taking up the said boy, will have him conffued in some safe jail, and I will pay all charges for his delivery to me. J. W. Alsobrooks, fe 17--1m* Will Tower, Alabama.
The Daily Dispatch: February 17, 1862., [Electronic resource], Southern War news. (search)
Southern War news. the Lincoln gunboats on the Tennessee. River — what they did at Flarence — Flow the people received them — the War in Tennessee. The Tuscumble (Ala.) Constitution, of the 13th Inst., gives us the following particulars of the visit of the enemy to Alabama: The news of the arrival of Lincoln's gunboats in our waters, on Saturday last, created the most intense excitement in our community, Hitherto the people had reposed in fancied security. The neighboring towns sent volunteer companies on the iron-horse, and the people of the country for about fifteen miles around, came trooping to town through mud and darkness immediately to the rescue. Promptly Gov. Shorter out the militia, and the Confederacy sent assistance. There is no longer any need to appeal to the people to take up arms. Every man you meet introduce conversation by the remark, "I came as soon as I got the news," We have made it our special business to find out what aid and <
The Daily Dispatch: February 17, 1862., [Electronic resource], Late Northern news. (search)
which their connection with the Union was maintained, to renounce all allegiance to the Constitution, to levy war upon the National Government, and, for the consummation of this treason, have unconstitutionally and unlawfully confederated together, with the declared purpose of putting an end, by force, to the supremacy of the Constitution within their respective limits; and whereas, this condition of insurrection, organized by pretended Governments, openly exists in South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Virginia, except in Eastern Tennessee and Western Virginia, and has been declared by the President of the United States, in a proclamation duly made in conformity with an act of Congress, to exist throughout this territory, with the exceptions already named; and whereas, the extensive territory thus usurped by these pretended Governments and organized into a hostile Confederacy, belongs to the United States, as an inseparable part the
The Daily Dispatch: February 17, 1862., [Electronic resource], Honorable thieves. (search)
Lecture of Hon. J. L. M. Curry, of Alabama, for the benefit of the Volunteers. On Thursday evening last, an admirable lecture was delivered by Mr. Curry, upon the subject previously announced: "The two wants of the Confederacy." The topice unfolded by the lecturer were, in substance, these: A just appreciation of the origin and nature of the present crisis, and of our political condition, and an enlarged and true stateamanship, to effect the promotion and maintenance of our institutions. After an exordium, in which he brieffy reviewed the fanciful theories and absurdities that had characterized the progress both of science and of polities in their earlier history, contrasting them with the altilitarian and practical spirit that prevall in this, our age, Mr. Curry entered upon an ample and thorough statement and illustration of both branches of his subject. It was a task both difficult and delicate, and we shall not here attempt to frame a synopets of discussions of a chara