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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1,030 0 Browse Search
Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States. 578 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. 482 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 198 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. 152 0 Browse Search
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 116 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 96 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 96 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 94 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 92 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: December 3, 1862., [Electronic resource], Bombardment of Lavaca. (search)
into the town, and the second some 78; thus ended the conflict. It was a miracle that no blood was spilled under such a shower of shot and shell, some of which were picked up afterwards, and had not exploded, weighing over one hundred pounds. A correspondent of the Houston (Texas) Telegraph writing under date of November 10th, says that it had been ascertained that the Yankees had sent to Galveston for a mortar fleet, for the purpose of shelling the place a second time. The most active preparations were being made by our troops at Lavaca to give them a warm reception. Lavaca is the second port on the Texas coast, and is the shipping point for Victoria, Gonzales, Sequin. San Antonio, and the principal districts of Southwestern Texas. It is a good sized village, numbering about three or four thousand inhabitants. It is situated on the Matagorda Bay, on a low, marshy plain, and presents every appearance of being an exceedingly dirty, disagreeable, and unhealthy place.