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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 41 23 Browse Search
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 26 2 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 22 0 Browse Search
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862., Part II: Correspondence, Orders, and Returns. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott) 17 3 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. 15 3 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 12 2 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 11 3 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 10 2 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore) 7 5 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 6 4 Browse Search
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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 4: the call for troops. (search)
and open the way to Washington, was the remembrance of a little bit of history:-- Washington had determined upon placing the capital where it now is. He had substantially laid out the plan which brought the capitol building, in the final location of it, close to the top of a slope which commands a view of the very large and substantially level ground east of the capitol where, by this plan, the city was to be built. But this level tract took in a large piece of the ground belonging to Mr. Carroll, and some belonging to the Custis family. On this account, Edmund Randolph, Washington's attorney-general, attacked him in a pamphlet, which was the mode of political warfare in those days. He urged that the location of the capital, and especially the plan of the city, was simply the result of nepotism on the part of the President, who desired to give great value by the Map of Chesapeake Bay and interior. From United States topographical map. location to the lands of his relatives,