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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2 1,245 1,245 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 666 666 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 260 260 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 197 197 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) 190 190 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1. 93 93 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 8: Soldier Life and Secret Service. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 88 88 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 82 82 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 79 79 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) 75 75 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: December 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], The cowardly Despotism at Washington. (search)
Sir: For nearly three months I have been confined, a close prisoner, shut out from air and exercise, and denied all communion with family and friends "Patience is said to be a great virtue," and I have practiced it, to my utmost capacity of endurance. I am told, sir, that upon your ipse dixit, the fate of citizens depends, and that the sign manual of the ministers of Louis the Fourteenth and Fifteenth, was not more potential in their day, than that of the Secretary of State in 1861. I, therefore, most respectfully submit, that on Friday, August 23d, without warrant or other show of authority, I was arrested by the Detective Police, and my house taken in charge by them: that all my private letters, and papers of a lifetime, were read and examined by them: that every law of decency was violated in the search of my house and person, and by the surveillance over me. We read in history, that the poor Maria Antoinette had a paper torn from her bosom by lawless hands
The Daily Dispatch: December 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], Reported capture of a whale. (search)
me, eight hands had been employed in this business, and 3 in working the ship lock. There remain how but two, colored hands, besides the keeper of the ship lock. The business of the lock has latterly increased, by reason of the number of lighters and small sailing vessels, chiefly engaged in transporting wheat, on private account, and wood, coal, lumber, provisions and forage for the army. The aggregate of tolls on the canal for the fiscal year 1860 was $229,256.54; for the fiscal year 1861, $122,805.52; aggregate loss, $106,451.02--or 46½ per cent, on the receipts of the previous year. The amount of tolls on passengers during the past fiscal year was $6,976 19, being an increase of $1,899.55 on the previous year. The report proceeds to note other causes of a diminished revenue, unavoidable in a time of war; and then gives a detail of the damages sustained during the year, from freshets and other causes, and the repairs necessary in consequence. The receipts on accoun