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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 84 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 54 8 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 41 5 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore) 36 0 Browse Search
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade) 36 0 Browse Search
Elias Nason, McClellan's Own Story: the war for the union, the soldiers who fought it, the civilians who directed it, and his relations to them. 36 0 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 32 0 Browse Search
James Barnes, author of David G. Farragut, Naval Actions of 1812, Yank ee Ships and Yankee Sailors, Commodore Bainbridge , The Blockaders, and other naval and historical works, The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 6: The Navy. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 24 2 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: June 11, 1861., [Electronic resource] 22 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 20 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: August 19, 1862., [Electronic resource], Later from the North. (search)
Later from the North. We have received Northern papers of the 16th instant. On the night of the 13th inst., the steamer West Point, with 221 convalescent troops from New port News, for Burnside's army, was run into at Aquia Creek by the steamer George Peabody, Capt. Travers, and sank in ten minutes. Seventy-three lives were lost, including the wives of Major Dort, Lieut. Col. Scott and Capt. Cummings, of the 6th N. H. regiment. The negro brigade of General Hunter, at Belton Head. S. C., has been disbanded, as "the negroes could not be made soldiers." A large number of Yankees are going over the Canada line and taking the oath of allegiance to the British Government, to avoid being drafted. In Washington, on the 14th Lincoln addressed a delegation of "colored men," who waited on him by invitation, to "talk over" the subject of emancipation. His address is reported in two columns of the New York Herald, and includes two verses of poetry! Gen. Pope in his official report of t