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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 1,756 1,640 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 979 67 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. 963 5 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 742 0 Browse Search
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 694 24 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 457 395 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. 449 3 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 427 7 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died. 420 416 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 410 4 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: may 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], Extra session of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States. (search)
of his exploits in that capacity were commented on by the Iowa papers in no very complimentary way. He told the Mayor that his ability as a telegraphic operator enabled him, with very small trouble, while passing any telegraph wire, to ascend and affix an apparatus by which he could find out what was going over the line. The Mayor thereupon concluded that he was a dangerous personage. Prisoner denied the inference, and wished to send for various persons in authority, who would vouch for his status. The Secretary of the Commonwealth appeared as a witness against him. The case was continued, and party sent to jail. Antonio Custilloti, a "vagrant from Washington, D. C., and a suspicious person," was committed without examination till the 27th inst. John S. Vorhees, on whose person was found a number of papers transcribed with hyrogliphics, was brought before the Mayor, and arraigned, but not released, no satisfactory explanation of his business here ever having been given.