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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 78 0 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 66 2 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 66 4 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. 49 5 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 37 5 Browse Search
G. S. Hillard, Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-General , U. S. Army 29 3 Browse Search
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac 27 3 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 22 8 Browse Search
A. J. Bennett, private , First Massachusetts Light Battery, The story of the First Massachusetts Light Battery , attached to the Sixth Army Corps : glance at events in the armies of the Potomac and Shenandoah, from the summer of 1861 to the autumn of 1864. 22 0 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 20 2 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: July 19, 1862., [Electronic resource], Northern news. (search)
ed that the General could not be released, nor seen, and that the Secretary of War was equally invisible. After vainly endeavoring to obtain an interview with the Secretary, Mayor Slaughter filed his petition and returned to Fredericksburg. General McCall, he reports, is in good health, and is situated as comfortably as is possible under his circumstances. The Richmond papers are received here every other day within thirty hours of their issued and there is not the least doubt but that thhe rest were dead and in the hospital. But no other division suffered as much. After Seven Pines it was no division at all. Many of these losses were compensated by reinforcements--seven regiments — say, 6,000 men, from Fortress Monroe, and General McCall's division of 10,000 effectives from the Rappahannock. But even with all these reductions the army could sustain itself against attack if it had requisite rest and supplies. I state these facts because the crisis seems to have passed. Rein
The Daily Dispatch: July 19, 1862., [Electronic resource], American affairs — another letter from Mr. Spence. (search)
Major-General McCall. This officer is exhibiting some tactic of character, now that he is here in captivity, which might be considered unbecoming even if his rank were lower. After being transferred from the Spotswood Hotel to the prison on 18th street, he sent back for some articles of clothing which be said he had left behey could be nowhere found. The General subsequently requested the steward of the prison to purchase him some clothing, and wrote his order, as follows: "For Gen. McCall--One woolen shirt, collar 13 inches; one pair drawers, two cambric handkerchiefs, one pair socks." The purchases were duly made, and the steward, presuminglished through the interference of the Yankee Government in our seaport trade, and which we all submit to with as good grace as possible. Not so, however, with Gen. McCall. When the articles were carried to him, he rebelled against the transaction altogether, refusing to receive the goods he had ordered and to pay the bill. The