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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. 48 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 40 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 36 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 28 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 28 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 14 0 Browse Search
L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion 14 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. 11 1 Browse Search
Lt.-Colonel Arthur J. Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States 10 0 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 10 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: August 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Programme. (search)
proached a crisis. In view of a threatened invasion through Kentucky, it was deemed best some time ago to order to the most important gaps in the Kentucky line some of our Southern troops. We could hear of arms and ammunition being sent into Kentucky for the Union men of East Tennessee, and the precautionary step was not ill-advised. There are said to be at least 10,000 stand of arms at convenient distances along the line within the territory of Kentucky, and for some time squads of Unionists from East Tennessee have been leaving on foot, and passing through the mountains along cow paths. But no interception was accomplished until the last week. Then it was learned that Capt. Thornburg, of Union county, was attempting a passage with 80 men, armed with pikes, knives and rifles, to unite with Lincoln; and it is said that he holds a Lieut. Colonel's commission from Lincoln.--Capt. Ashby, of the gallant Ashby family, was detached with 200 men to intercept him, which he did, arres