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Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 999 7 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 382 26 Browse Search
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac 379 15 Browse Search
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders. 288 22 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 283 1 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. 243 11 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 233 43 Browse Search
An English Combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery of the Field Staff., Battlefields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps. 210 2 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 200 12 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore) 186 12 Browse Search
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f Representatives was organized by the election of Schuyler Colfax as Speaker on the first ballot. He received 101 votes; Cox, 42; Dawson, 12; Mallory, 10; all others, 17. Necessary to a choice, 92. The Speaker, on assuming the chair, declared himself in favor of "crushing out the rebellion" by all the means within the power of the Government. Lincoln's message was not delivered in either House. From East Tennessee. The telegrams from East Tennessee are only confirmatory of Gen. Longstreet's retreat. A dispatch from Gen. Foster, dated the 7th inst., 7 A. M., says that he had sent Gen. Wilcox with his infantry and artillery towards the mountains to attack the enemy's flank at Bean's Station. A proclamation. Lincoln has issued the following proclamation, dated at the Executive Mansion, Washington, 7th inst: Reliable information being received that the insurgent force is retreating from East Tennessee, under circumstances rendering it probable that the Union
The Daily Dispatch: December 11, 1863., [Electronic resource], Ravages of the enemy when last this side of the Rapidan. (search)
Affairs in East Tennessee. Bristol, Dec. 10. --Our latest advices from the front are that General Longstreet's forces are in line of battle at Rutledge. His rear is skirmishing with the enemy, whose pursuit has not been vigorous since our forces left Morristown. Our cavalry were skirmishing all day on Monday with the advance of Wilcox's forces, on Clinch river. Capt. Everett's raiding party ventured to Abingdon yesterday. He attacked the enemy at Mt. Sterling, Ky., and routed them after a stubborn resistance, during which the courthouse and jail were burned. He captured a large number of fine horses and one hundred thousand dollars in greenbacks. The enemy being heavily reinforced, he retreated rapidly through Pound Gap, closely pursued by 1,200 cavalry, who are reported to be at Gladesville, Va.
it is divided, since he takes rank among the junior Lieutenant-Generals. Of the officers of this rank the following is the order of their appointment, to wit: Longstreet, Kirby Smith, Polk, Holmes, Hardee, Jackson, Pemberton, Ewell, A P. Hill, and D. H. Hill. Think of Jackson and Hardee coming after Holmes, and barely taking prrdly practicable, especially in midwinter. It is more probable that heavy demonstrations will be made in the direction of Knoxville, with a view to frightening Longstreet from his pray; and it may be that a reinforcing column will be sent to the relief of Burnside. Indeed, our cavalry scouts report that forces are already in motion for that destination, having, at last accounts, reached the neighborhood of Charleston. Nothing has been received from Longstreet himself for several days. That he has opened fire upon Knoxville there can be but little doubt, but with what result is not known. He will probably retreat in the direction of Bristol and Lyn