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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 65 31 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 22 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 18 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 18 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 17 3 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 14 0 Browse Search
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac 12 0 Browse Search
Allan Pinkerton, The spy in the rebellion; being a true history of the spy system of the United States Army during the late rebellion, revealing many secrets of the war hitherto not made public, compiled from official reports prepared for President Lincoln , General McClellan and the Provost-Marshal-General . 12 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. 12 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 10 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: August 8, 1862., [Electronic resource], Later from the North. (search)
hinery, this of war-making, and it takes long to start it, but its momentum, when once it shall be started, will prove to be irresistible. The rebels at Gloucester Point. A correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer writes from Yorktown, under date of July 29: During last week, Gen. Van Alen, in command at this post, received information from contrabands and deserters that the rebels, under Col. Hayes, were advancing on Gloucester Point with a force of two thousand infantry, artillery, and cavalry, and that they had made Gloucester Court-House a regular military station as well as provision depot.--This information was at first discredited, bry. Accordingly, we prepared for the crisis. Capt. Patterson, whose gunboat, Chocorua, always ready and on the watch, lay in the river between this and Gloucester Point, took up a position so as to rake the approaches to the fort. Thus prepared, he waited watchfully for their advent. About dark a contraband, whom Capt. Pat