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Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 28 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 21 5 Browse Search
John D. Billings, The history of the Tenth Massachusetts battery of light artillery in the war of the rebellion 15 3 Browse Search
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1 15 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 14 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 12 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 25. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 11 1 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. 7 1 Browse Search
Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley 6 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: September 18, 1861., [Electronic resource] 6 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: August 13, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the Rip-Raps. (search)
From the Rip-Raps. James Clark, who has been for some weeks past imprisoned at the Rip-Raps, but is now released under the cartel, informs us that among the citizens still confined there are Adolphus Goddin, of Richmond, and.--Blake, late overseer on Maj. Wm. Allen's plantation. Thos. A. Hutton, who was on board the steamer Louisiana when she was destroyed, and afterwards made prisoner by the Yankees, has also arrived in Richmond from the Rip-Raps. The gentleman last named was kept on board a vessel for six weeks, in irons. From the same source we learn that ten steamers, loaded with troops, passed out of the mouth of James river a few days ago, and six more were met going down the river yesterday. This intelligence strengthens the belief that McClellan is evacuating his position.
The Daily Dispatch: August 13, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Texas. (search)
— description of Monticello, &c. Camp, in Orange Co., Aug. 4. I will commence this paper with some minor matters expecting to be able to close with more important ones. Take, first, one or two trivial, but pleasant incidents connected with the late engagements near Richmond. A certain gentleman, (who, by the way, had passed the pickets by showing a receipt for his year's subscription to a newspaper,) returning from one of the battle- fields, and going through the estate of Maj. Allen, happened to get into conversation with one of the negro men belonging to the place. During the interview the gentleman saw President Davis and General Lee approaching. Said he to the servant, "would you like to see President Davis and Gen. Lee!" "Yes, massa." The gentleman, then, at some length, and with great simplicity, endeavored to explain who and what they were. He told the negro that the President was the head man of our whole Southern country, and that Gen. Lee had planned and s