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Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3 309 19 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2 309 19 Browse Search
General Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant 170 20 Browse Search
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary 117 33 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 65 11 Browse Search
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 62 2 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 36 2 Browse Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 34 12 Browse Search
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee 29 3 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 29 3 Browse Search
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om a correspondent's letter to the Examiner, that the dwelling-house of the late Major John Seddon was burned by order of Butler as a retaliation for the burning of the dwelling of Montgomery Blair by our men in Maryland. Mrs. Seddon, the widow of Maperty of Hon. Montgomery Blair by the Confederate forces in their recent raid near Washington City. "By order of Major-General Butler." It appears that the Yankee Beast was under the impression that the house belonged to Mr. Seddon, the Ser with calamity. She declared to them, "I am glad to be accounted worthy to suffer for the cause. God permitted it, or Butler could not harm me." Had there been an unretaliated outrage committed by Confederates on Yankees — which there was nouthless and inhuman policy for the invasion and subjugation of the South. In retaliation, the Yankees, by order of Beast Butler, have burned the house of a widow lady, turning her and her infant children out of doors in the night time. It is, indee