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Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 75 11 Browse Search
Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley 67 5 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 49 1 Browse Search
Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant 34 2 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. 27 9 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 26 2 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 24 2 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: April 23, 1862., [Electronic resource] 22 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 18 0 Browse Search
H. Wager Halleck , A. M. , Lieut. of Engineers, U. S. Army ., Elements of Military Art and Science; or, Course of Instruction in Strategy, Fortification, Tactis of Battles &c., Embracing the Duties of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery and Engineers. Adapted to the Use of Volunteers and Militia. 18 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: December 5, 1860., [Electronic resource], Presidents Message. (search)
Poisoned. --On Saturday night last, a white man named Thomas Sacres, a resident of Caroline county, was poisoned by a negro man named Nelson, slave to Mr. Thos. Hackett, and died that night. The negro fellow has since made his escape, and may possibly be lurking about this city. We learn from a gentleman from Caroline yesterday afternoon, that the negro slave Nelson a had been arrested and committed to jail — that he confessed to having administered the poison — and that he declared slave Nelson a had been arrested and committed to jail — that he confessed to having administered the poison — and that he declared he had been hired to commit the dead by a white man and a white woman, who had agreed to pay him $10 to perform the horrid crime. On Monday last a post mortem examination of the dead body was made, and the stomach taken out and sent to this city to be analyzed by a competent chemist. That the most deadly poison will be discovered, there seems to be no