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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore) 106 2 Browse Search
Col. Robert White, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 2.2, West Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 101 1 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 96 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) 82 4 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore) 70 0 Browse Search
James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion 60 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1. 59 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 I. 56 2 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 44 4 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 44 2 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: October 11, 1861., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for John B. Floyd or search for John B. Floyd in all documents.

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The Daily Dispatch: October 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], Juvenile Warfare. (search)
Gen. Floyd and the Wise Legion. The following card from General John B. Floyd is published by request: Hdq'rs Army of the Camp on Sewell, October 6th, 1861. Editors of Enquirer: Gentlemen — In the Enquirer of October 1st you have published certain letters, dated in Camp Defiance, purporting, under my command. TGeneral John B. Floyd is published by request: Hdq'rs Army of the Camp on Sewell, October 6th, 1861. Editors of Enquirer: Gentlemen — In the Enquirer of October 1st you have published certain letters, dated in Camp Defiance, purporting, under my command. These persons pretend to narrate my conduct in this campaign, particularly in the late actions on the Gauley and retreat to Meadow Bluff. Their statements are calumniatory falsehoods, having no shadow of truth for their foundation; but their intention, and not less their malignity, is too obvious to permit me to believe that they c of gentlemen and the character of officers, as to invent and publish libels on their General and their companions in arms, thus vile in spirit and untruthful in material, that they may be tried by the military tribunals, and punished, if guilty, according to the laws of the army. I am, sir, your obd't serv't, John B. Floyd
The Daily Dispatch: October 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Mysterious Murder. (search)
d to introduce Southern melodies in her burlesque, and Laura Keene forced to make the South in the right in her "Seven Sons," and the Bryants singing "Dixie's Land" at the point of the bayonet, and Herrman essaying the "Marsellaise," and teaching Floyd and Cobb prestidigitation, and the New Bowery folk ordered to play "Bull Run," with a new finale, until further notice. Imagine the Tribune suppressed and the Times denied the mails; the Day Book itself again and the Daily News revived; the Jourorts announced a great victory, and their general orders congratulated officers and men upon their bravery and success.--Even at Carnifex Ferry the South claim a victory, and their reports say "we did not lose a single man killed," compliment General Floyd upon "a generalship seldom displayed anywhere," (Heaven save the mark!) and state that "both the fight and the fall back to this side of the river are among the most remarkable incidents in the history of war." Thus running away is termed "he