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An English Combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery of the Field Staff., Battlefields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps. 10 2 Browse Search
Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865 8 0 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 6 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: June 13, 1862., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier 4 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: March 20, 1865., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
James Redpath, The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States. 4 0 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 4 0 Browse Search
Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War 4 0 Browse Search
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o nobly, for their liberties, their families and their homes, that the remembrance of their good fight must ever awaken in the hearts of their descendants those feelings of mingled respect and pity which, in a less barbarous age than that of this Norman conquest, such patriotic valor would have extorted from those whom policy, and interest had made their enemies." The above is an extract from a review of Thierry's history of the Norman conquest of England, published many years ago in a Brits. A large proportion of the peasantry were reduced to actual slavery, under the name of villeins, and the whole body were made subject to the will each of a separate lord. The word "curfew" is to this day a badge of Anglo-Saxon servitude under Norman masters. It arose from a law imposed by the conquerors, compelling the Saxon population to put out their fires and extinguish their lights (couvre feu) on a signal to be given by ringing the bell of the nearest convent, at an early hour in the e