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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 456 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. 154 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 72 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) 64 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 58 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 54 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 44 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. 40 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 38 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 36 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: February 17, 1862., [Electronic resource], Latest Northern War news. (search)
for the national debt of England. Federal news from Fort Royal. The bark Charles Kean arrived at this port yesterday morning. By her we have received news from Sort S. C., up to noon of the 4th inst. By this arrival we learn that part of the naval and military expedition destined for operations against Savanban had taken its departure, and the rest was preparting to follow. The names of the transport vessels whish act as pioneers to the expedition, are the Bosion; Delaware, and Cosmopolitan, The transports were accompanied by six tugboats for the special purpose of debarking troops. The troops are in excelient health, and appear anxious to have a desh at the rebela. The negroes in the vicinity of Port Royal were ransacking the plantations and the dwellings of their masters, and whaterver they could not convert to some bensficial purpose they destroyed. All the cotton they could lay their hands upon they were disposing of for a mere nothing. This the
The Daily Dispatch: February 17, 1862., [Electronic resource], Late Northern news. (search)
o publish a word of his disunion orations. A bid providing for the emancipation of slaves, with compensation to the owners, is now before the Legislature of Delaware. By this bill it is provided that all slaves over thirty-five years of age shall be freed within ninety days after it becomes a law; all under thirty-five shallslavery is to cease after January 1, 1872. These provisions are made conditional upon this, that "Congress will, at its present session, engage to pay to the State of Delaware, in bonds of the United States, bearing interest at the rate of six per centum per annum, the sum of $900,000, in ten annual instalments, $90,000 to be payabestablish a fund for securing full and fair compensation to the owners of slaves who shall have been divested of their property by force of the act in question." Delaware has, according to the census of 1860, eighteen hundred and five slaves, and the sum asked of Congress for their gradual emancipation amounts to $500 a head, whic