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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1862 , March
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, chapter 10 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America . (search)
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Chapter 5 Liberator lead—1839
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, I. List of officers from Massachusetts in United States Navy , 1861 1865
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), Appendix B. (search)
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 13
The Daily Dispatch: August 30, 1862., [Electronic resource], A Slight Brush at city Point. (search)
An unusual sight.
--At the Post-Office, last night, an unusual sight was witnessed — nothing less than an U. S. mail bag packed with Yankee letters, which was captured on the Rappahannock lines.--The letters are of late date.
One from Genesee county, L1, dated he 18th inst., says that county has raised nine companies under the last call, and that "when the Government gets in earnest the rebellion will be put down and traitors hung." A letter from a soldier at Battle Creek, Tenn., Aug. 8th, says:
"We have all the army here that was at Corinth, and 200 field pieces.
More infantry is expected in a few days."
A letter dated Lincoln county, Mo., Aug. 18th, from a son to his father, says the draft by the U. S. Government was very injudicious, as "Davis will get six men to Lincoln's one" He adds that he would rather see Indians than Federal in Missouri, for they could not steal or murder more.--Dr. Ben Tood, according to this letter, was taken out of bed by the Federal tro
The Daily Dispatch: December 23, 1865., [Electronic resource], Drunk and disorderly. (search)
Alleged Fraudulent financial operations — arrest made.
--Yesterday, a man named John Burns, who is well known in Batavia as highly respectable, presented a draft, purporting to be drawn by the Canton Banking Company, of Canton, on the First National Bank of New York, and signed by Anson Chappell, for one thousand dollars at the First National Bank in Batavia, and got it cashed.
This he did at the request of Thomas Chappell, a farmer, residing in Elba, Genessee county, and to him Burns gave the funds he had obtained on the draft.
The officers of the bank then telegraphed to the First National Bank of New York to know if the Canton Banking Company had funds there and received "no" for an answer.
Chappell immediately proceeded to the Farmers' Bank of Attica, in Batavia, and there tried to get a similar draft cashed, but did not succeed, as some other parties, with like paper, had preceded him, and the officers of the bank were suspicious that all was not right.
From there Chapp