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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 584 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 298 0 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 I. 112 0 Browse Search
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 76 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 72 0 Browse Search
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1 62 0 Browse Search
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1 62 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 52 0 Browse Search
Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Debates of Lincoln and Douglas: Carefully Prepared by the Reporters of Each Party at the times of their Delivery. 50 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 46 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: April 5, 1864., [Electronic resource], Interesting European news. (search)
Yankee civilization. It has been a constant boast of the North that it was a land of churches, schools and newspapers. New England has 4,042 churches; the Middle States, 9,714; the Northwestern States, 10,926. Maine has a larger proportion of schools than any other country in the world. In New England only one person over twenty years of age in every four hundred natives is unable to read and write. The Federal Government has granted over forty millions of acres of land for school purposes, and over four millions of acres for university purposes. Two thousand five hundred and twenty-six newspapers were published in the United States, by far the greater proportion in the North. If church buildings could make a people religious, if the means of education and the opportunities of knowledge could render them virtuous, the people of the United States ought to be the best people in the world. Or, if civilization consists in material development, they ought to be the most civ