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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 272 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 122 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. 100 0 Browse Search
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 90 0 Browse Search
Elias Nason, McClellan's Own Story: the war for the union, the soldiers who fought it, the civilians who directed it, and his relations to them. 84 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 II. 82 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 82 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 74 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 70 0 Browse Search
John G. Nicolay, The Outbreak of Rebellion 70 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: April 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
er produce were boated down, and on the route had to meet the competition of the free States, as well as at the end of the route. Mr. Scott said he had supposed that the salt, coal and oil of the West found its market in the States bordering on their territory. The cattle of the West find a market in Pennsylvania and Maryland, and none of that great trade has its direction South. Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, and even New York, furnish the market which that great staple of Western Virginia finds practicable. He did not know about the pork and potatoes — They might be boated down the Ohio, to find a market in the South; but he spoke from information derived from others in regard to the salt, coal and oil, and in regard to the cattle trade he spoke from his own knowledge. He urged with force the position that this Convention ought to look to the whole and act for the whole and shape their measures with respect to all interests. Where opinions, conflict, we must yield
The Daily Dispatch: April 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Venezuela. (search)
n the traffic, for King A. has left his foot-prints deep in this county in the last several years. One of our military companies — the Valley Guards--paraded on Saturday, and gave the public a chance to see the Zouave drill. Col.Gibbons was commanding. The Colonel was lately the Captain of this company of citizen soldiers. He is one of the best officers in the State. Very justly was he elevated to the position of Colonel of the Regiment. Like the California gold fever, the Western Virginia oil excitement has reached us, and five companies have left here for the greasy region. This oil will soon do away with many other oils. I perceive less than half the Massachusetts whale-ships have gone out this season. It may be, that this oil will supercede whale oil, in which case Virginia will take a very prominent part in the commerce of the world with her oil. Perhaps it would be well to grease Virginia with this oil, that she might slip out of the Union--and drown the State Co