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Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders. 40 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 23 1 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 23 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: April 24, 1862., [Electronic resource] 8 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: November 6, 1860., [Electronic resource] 6 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: February 5, 1861., [Electronic resource] 6 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: January 8, 1861., [Electronic resource] 5 1 Browse Search
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 3 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 15. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 3 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. 3 1 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: August 8, 1864., [Electronic resource], The voice of a Virginia mother. (search)
's followers having desolated her home — but her spirit and her loyalty rise with her afflictions, and she utters the sentiments and the devotion of true patriotism and religion. At a time like this, and under the circumstances which surround us, we shall be pardoned for so far intruding upon the privacy of this high-spirited and pious lady as to mention her name. It is Mrs. Letitia Lewis, wife of Colonel William L. Lewis, of the Sweet Springs, Monroe county. She is the daughter of Governor John Floyd, the elder, and sister of the second governor of that name — the late General John B. Floyd. --Faithful to the fame and the loyalty of her maiden name, she honors that brilliant one she bears as matron, and which descends to her husband from the glorious revolutionary family which, in Charles and Andrew Lewis, gave to their country heroes whose characters and deeds shed lustre upon her history. How it must stir the blood and fix the resolution of the true Southern man, and how it mus