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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1,126 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) 528 0 Browse Search
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary 402 0 Browse Search
A Roster of General Officers , Heads of Departments, Senators, Representatives , Military Organizations, &c., &c., in Confederate Service during the War between the States. (ed. Charles C. Jones, Jr. Late Lieut. Colonel of Artillery, C. S. A.) 296 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. 246 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 230 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 214 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 180 0 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 174 0 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 170 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: May 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ge that under the Constitution of the United States the President was usurping a power granted exclusively to the Congress. He is the sole organ of communication between that country and foreign powers. The law of nations did not permit me to question the authority of the Executive of a foreign nation to declare war against this Confederacy. Although I might have refrained from taking active measures for our defence, if the States of the Union had all imitated the action of Virginia, North Carolina, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee and Missouri, by denouncing the call for troops as an unconstitutional usurpation of power to which they refused to respond, I was not at liberty to disregard the fact that many of the States seemed quite content to submit to the exercise of the power assumed by the President of the United States, and were actively engaged in levying troops to be used for the purpose indicated in the proclamation. Deprived of the aid of Congress at the moment, I was un
The Daily Dispatch: May 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 14 (search)
Personal. --Hon. L. W. Spratt, of Charleston, S. C.; Col. Winder and family, of North Carolina; J. Barrett Washington, of Jefferson county; W. H. F. Lee, of New Kent county, and sundry others, arrived at the Spotswood House yesterday. Mr. Spratt will be remembered as one of the most uncompromising of all of the advocates of Southern rights, having been battling for the cause for over a quarter of a century. Hon. R. A. Pryor, late member of Congress, and at present Colonel Confederate State Army, is in Richmond, on business connected with the raising of a volunteer regiment.
The Daily Dispatch: May 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], Northern papers. (search)
reenaway, late pastor of the Methodist Protestant Church in this city. An artillery company has been organized at Lexington, under Capt. John McCauseland, an Assistant Professor at the Virginia Military Institute. Hon. Asa Biggs, of North Carolina, forwarded his resignation as a District Judge of the United States, to A. Lincoln, on the 23d April. Lieut. John N. Maffit, late of the U. S. Navy, tenders his services to North Carolina or to the Confederacy. The papers throughoutNorth Carolina or to the Confederacy. The papers throughout Virginia are pitching into the grocers and provision merchants for their extortionate charges. The ship Ironsides, with a large freight of cotton and flour for Liverpool, was on fire below New Orleans on the 29 ult. A grand military review took place in New Orleans on the 27 ult. Some 4,000 troops were in line. A book-keeper named J. R. Steger, is under arrest in Memphis for embezzling his employer's funds. Dr. A. G. Allen, a well known physician, died in Shenandoah county,
The Daily Dispatch: May 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], From the North. (search)
arm weather is approaching. The encampment will be made up chiefly of the volunteers from the adjacent counties. A Columbiad of huge dimensions, and of 10-inch bore, cast in Richmond, was conveyed through Petersburg to-day, destined for North Carolina. Its weight is 16,000 lbs. Its formidable appearance excited a great deal of curiosity. The new company of Archer Volunteers, commanded by Capt. F. H. Archer, 100 strong, paraded through the streets to-day for the first time. They are inction in the Mexican war, and will render a good account of his company should be come into hostile collision with the best Northern troops that may profane our soil. A most enthusiastic reception will be given to the First Regiment of North Carolina, consisting of one thousand volunteers, which is expected to arrive to-morrow. It is represented to be composed of the finest military companies in the State, all in perfect drill, and thoroughly armed and equipped. The blockade of Jame