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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 213 57 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10 189 23 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8 53 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. 9 1 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 7 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 3 3 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: November 15, 1860., [Electronic resource] 2 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 1 1 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition. 1 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 1 1 Browse Search
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out of their estates to the persons who have been injured and oppressed by them. I have ordered, in the most positive manner, that every militia man who has borne arms with us and afterwards joined the enemy, shall be hanged. I desire you will take the most rigorous measures to punish the rebels in the district which you command." This letter fell into the hands of Washington, and was made, with the similar orders issued by Lord Rawdon, the topic of indignant remonstrance with Sir Henry Clinton, their superior officer, to whom some modifying letters were written by these officers, to mitigate the enormity of their acts. They would need no mitigation in order to make them conform to the bloody minded counsels of the Lincoln press of this day.--On the contrary, the tone and almost the very words are renewed every day through their columns. It is another part of history that, in little more than a year after this letter was written, Cornwallis himself was a prisoner to