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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 472 144 Browse Search
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 358 8 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 215 21 Browse Search
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1 186 2 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. 124 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 108 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 103 5 Browse Search
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2 97 15 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 92 0 Browse Search
Elias Nason, McClellan's Own Story: the war for the union, the soldiers who fought it, the civilians who directed it, and his relations to them. 83 1 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: December 5, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
of their ability to throw hundred pound shell into the Capitol Square. We shall believe this when we see it lone. Should they, however, succeed, we may count upon one good effect, whatever may be the bad ones: That very large mass of persons who, having no business here, will persist in infesting the city, will decamp immediately on the explosion of the first shell within our limits. A Northern paper mentions, is a report, that Burnside, with twenty thousand men, has embarked at Fortress Monroe to go to Sherman's relief in Georgia. We do not credit the report. Grant has not twenty thousand men to spare. From Petersburg. Since last Thursday night the picket firing has been brisk on the Petersburg lines, and on Friday a heavy cannonade was kept up by the Yankees along the left and centre. During the cannonade on Friday morning, Brigadier-General Archibald Gracie, of Alabama, while inspecting the lines, was struck in the head by a bullet from a shrapnel shell and kille
The Daily Dispatch: December 5, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
We have received copies a New York papers of Friday, the 2d instant, and give below a summary of the news they contain: Sherman's expedition — Dahlgren and Foster co-operating within. The Yankee papers have nothing yet direct from Sherman. On Wednesday, a rumor was circulated at the New York gold board that General Burnside had embarked at Fortress Monroe with twenty thousand men, to co-operate with him in Georgia. From the following paragraph, in the Chicago Trune, it appears that the Yankees known at Foster and Dahlgren are to co-operate with Sherman, but do not yet know the whipping each of those commander have gotten from General Hardee: Mr. Elder, an escaped Union soldier from Charleston, and who was picked up by some of Admiral Dahlgren's boats has arrived at Chicago. He informs us that both Admiral Dahlgren and General Foster are cognizant of the movements of General Sherman, and are co-operating with him. Sherman is surely aiming at Savannah, where there