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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 18 0 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1 15 5 Browse Search
Lt.-Colonel Arthur J. Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States 14 10 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 12 2 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore) 12 6 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. 10 2 Browse Search
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army 7 1 Browse Search
John G. Nicolay, The Outbreak of Rebellion 6 4 Browse Search
Colonel Charles E. Hooker, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.2, Mississippi (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 6 0 Browse Search
Col. John M. Harrell, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.2, Arkansas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 4 2 Browse Search
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of secessionists than the wives of "submissionists." There was a meeting here last week to nominate delegates to the Convention, and night were appointed a committee to make nominations, and out of the eight, three were ministers. We have a rifle corps here of 70 men, and our representative, P. C. J. Weston, a rice planter, has made them a present of 100 Minnie rifles ($3,500) and a Whitworth gun, ($1,500.) besides smaller contributions. We have also an artillery company of 64 men, and Governor Gist has just sent them a battery of six guns; and three rice planters have sent them their checks for $200 a piece. Then we have a troop, called the Marion Light Troop, of 52 men, to which I belong. We had a present of $250 last week; and if we do have to fight we will be ready to do so. Our railroad is still pushing on, and will not stop. All other business is at a stand still. Personal liberty law in Vermont. The final action of the Vermont Legislature, before its adjournment o
pected, and they inferred that in Virginia, as in South Carolina, it might turn out that the people were ahead of the politicians. The news from Maryland is significant. A South Carolina delegate tells me that he saw a letter addressed to Gov. Gist by the Colonel of a regiment of horse, 1300 strong, and belonging to the city of Baltimore and its vicinity, pledging the entire force in aid of South Carolina in case the Federal Government attempts coercion after the State has seceded. The mmitted to the vote of the regiment and decided unanimously in favor of South Carolina. The regiment consists of volunteers, and has been raised within a few days for the express purpose of helping South Carolina. This letter certainly came to Gov. Gist, nor is there any doubt of its genuineness. It is useless to disguise facts. The people of the South are determined to bring matters to a conclusion of one sort or another, and that speedily. Will write you again on Monday. Zed.