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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: October 23, 1863., [Electronic resource], Yankee history of the attempts to blow up the Ironsides — Excitement Ashore. (search)
ers nor garrison had heard a sound at all unusual. In vain did we look for signals; not a light appeared save those suspended on the rigging of the vessels off the coast. Both Gen. Gilmore and Admiral Dahlgren were signaled — the former at Folly Island, and the latter on his flag-ship, which lay at anchor in the inlet, although the sea all through the day had hardly power enough in it to crawl up the beach, but fawned upon the bright sands and licked them with its wet, sparkling lips. "Had Rowan been attacked? " "Had the rebels the hardihood to attempt to board the Ironsides?" "What does it all mean?" These and similar inquiries were made rather in the light of suggestion and speculation than with the hope of gathering a solution of the mixed problem with which each mind was busy. History of the affair. At half-past 9 o'clock of the night in question, the quartermaster on watch on board the new Ironsides reported to the officer of the deck a suspicious craft, with smokestac