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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 70 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 61 1 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2 34 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 32 0 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1 26 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 22 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 17. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 20 0 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 18 0 Browse Search
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 3. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 14 0 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 14 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: April 23, 1864., [Electronic resource], Federal inhumanity to their own wounded. (search)
New York Tribunes, which, if we were not acquainted, with the inhumanity, of Federal officers, we should deem almost incredible. When the Cosmopolitan arrived at Beaufort with a cargo of 240 wounded men, a ball was going on. Generals Gilmore and Saxon, who were present, immediately left the festive scene and went to the boat, and then heard for the first time of the defeat of the army; the only intimation of a reverse prior to this was a telegram from Hilton Head stating that some wounded men were on their way. Gen. Saxon returned to the ball room, informed the guests of the catastrophe, and ordered the lights to be put out. We will give the rest of the narrative in the words of the New York Tribune: A second time he had to give the command before it was obeyed. A surgeon present made a little speech, setting forth the superfluity of the man date, inasmuch as the wounded men were not to be removed until the following morning About half a dozen doctors were at the ball. A teleg