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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 1,604 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 760 0 Browse Search
James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 530 0 Browse Search
Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States. 404 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 382 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.) 346 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 330 0 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3 312 0 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2 312 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 310 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: January 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], Letter from Col. F. H. Smith to a friend, on the questions of the day. (search)
ces by which she is at present surrounded. It seems to me she is compelled to meet this crisis, and have questions at issue settled; and the point is, how she may do this, with less damage to herself and her peculiar interests. Some advise that we remain in the Union and make a solemn demand upon the North for redress. But what avail will be the weak cry of Virginia, stripped of the united strength of her sister Southern States? Or what could Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, and Tennessee do, when their power in the Federal Union has been paralyzed by the secession of the cotton States? Or admit that redress were secured; how could she remain in a Union, overpowered as she would be by the united sentiment of the North, without additional constitutional guarantees? And could she get them? I know not. Others, considering the dissolution of the Union inevitable, are suggesting a Middle Confederacy. While I see no advantage in this arrangement, that could not be as