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Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 999 7 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 382 26 Browse Search
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac 379 15 Browse Search
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. 288 22 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 283 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 II. 243 11 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 233 43 Browse Search
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. 210 2 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 200 12 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore) 186 12 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: March 14, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
lowing extract from the Washington Star: There is a report prevalent in town that Sherman, according to statements from rebel sources, has achieved great successes in late engagements with the rebel forces. According to this report, Longstreet had confronted Sherman, Hardee was threatening his flank, and Cheatham had come up in his rear. Sherman turned suddenly upon Cheatham, utterly annihilating him, and then pounced in turn upon Hardee and Longstreet, scattering them like chaff. Longstreet, scattering them like chaff. We give this as the rumor afloat, without being able to say what credit should be accorded to it. Richmond papers make no mention of it; but as they are under orders to say nothing in regard to military affairs, of course their silence goes for nothing. A drunken Vice-President. Andy Johnson, the drunken Yankee Vice-President, gets the following from the New York Tribune: Mr. Andrew Johnson, our new Vice-President, is said to have been demented by liquor when sworn into office
The Daily Dispatch: March 14, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
g insufficient to warrant the detention of the accused, they were discharged. Thomas J. Norton and Andrew J. Fondren, members of the Eighth Georgia regiment, were charged with shooting and wounding William White, a free negro. The affair occurred in Rocketts on Saturday afternoon, the excuse therefore being that the accused shot White because he ran from them (instead of halting) upon being hailed. Norton, who did the shooting, claimed that, as a guard, he had been instructed by General Longstreet to shoot down any man who refused to halt when challenged, and he conceived it his duty to do what he had done. His Honor took a different ground, and denied that any officer had a right to give any such instructions — not even the President himself. He further said that he should do what he could to put a stop to this street-shooting in future, and concluded by postponing the matter for a few days in order to procure the attendance of superior officers, from whom such arbitrary inst