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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (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. 8 4 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 6 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 4 4 Browse Search
James Russell Soley, Professor U. S. Navy, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, The blockade and the cruisers (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 4 2 Browse Search
Philip Henry Sheridan, Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army . 4 0 Browse Search
General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox 4 0 Browse Search
William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik 4 0 Browse Search
D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 4 2 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: July 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], Fifteenth day. (search)
of the Washington National Republican of Friday evening last. It confirms the statements of the Fredericksburg papers, and supposes that a number of the "rebels" were killed and wounded. The steamer Pawnee arrived at the Navy Yard this morning, bringing the body of Capt Ward, of the steamer Freeborn, who was killed in an action at Mathias' Point about dusk yesterday afternoon. As near as we can learn, the particulars are as follows: Capt. Ward, on Wednesday night, sent to Capt. Rowan, of the Pawnee, for two boat's crews, which were sent down under Lieutenant Chapman, in order to take possession of the point, and erect a battery. Early yesterday morning a landing was effected, and the pickets of the enemy were driven back. The number of men landed was between thirty and forty, Capt. Ward in the mean time promising to cover the men with his guns. About this time, a "contraband" slave, belonging to Dr. Hooe, a noted Secessionist, made his appearance with a shirt o