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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 520 520 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 182 182 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 112 112 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition. 64 64 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8 38 38 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died. 36 36 Browse Search
John Beatty, The Citizen-Soldier; or, Memoirs of a Volunteer 31 31 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition. 28 28 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 27 27 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 23 23 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: March 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], Europe and the War in America. (search)
e apprehend that no insolvent would ever declare his insolvency, if the world would go on accepting his signature to promises to pay. Like many other long-anticipate even's, this has startled us by the suddenness and the great scale on which it has at last occurred. These threatening and ambitions Federal States could not even contrive to stretch the corners of their credit so as to cover up the old year and bury it respectably. The United States Treasury was compelled, on the last day of December, to refuse specie payments for their demand notes. Banks of New York, Boston, Philadelphia and throughout the country, have followed the example. The Federal States of America are at this moment as insolvent as Austria. But the insolvency of the Federal States has this essential difference from the insolvency of the Austrian Empire--the Empire has a large revenue, which is regularly paid, and which, under prudent management might be made available to buy back its credits; the Republic ha