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The Daily Dispatch: December 17, 1863., [Electronic resource] 9 1 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 8 2 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: August 5, 1861., [Electronic resource] 8 2 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 7 1 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: February 4, 1862., [Electronic resource] 3 3 Browse Search
Col. John M. Harrell, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.2, Arkansas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 3 1 Browse Search
Allan Pinkerton, The spy in the rebellion; being a true history of the spy system of the United States Army during the late rebellion, revealing many secrets of the war hitherto not made public, compiled from official reports prepared for President Lincoln , General McClellan and the Provost-Marshal-General . 3 3 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 2 0 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. 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: August 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 10 (search)
unpowder, have had enough of it.--Cincinnati Commercial. There is an amusing story of Congressman Gurley, from the Second Ohio District, going the rounds of the laughter-loving circles of the city. Gurley was one of the "fussy Congressmen" that was "anxious to smell gunpowder," and who, if the story is true, and it is abundantly vouched for, "had enough of it." A prominent citizen of Togo up a small acclivity to get into the road. When he reached it, who should be there but Congressman Gurley, who made a desperate grab at the reins near the buggy, and succeeded in clutching them. e buggy's progress. Citizen Toledo, satisfied there was no time to take a board passengers, hit Gurley a lick with his fist, and knocked him back some ten feet. Then commenced an indescribable scene re of meeting him the next morning in Washington, and apologizing for his apparent discourtesy. Gurley had resorted to shank's mare, and made a successful escape. Braver men than Gurley cut worse fi