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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 836 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 690 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. 532 0 Browse Search
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army 480 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 406 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 350 0 Browse Search
Wiley Britton, Memoirs of the Rebellion on the Border 1863. 332 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 322 0 Browse Search
Col. John M. Harrell, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.2, Arkansas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 310 0 Browse Search
Col. John C. Moore, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 9.2, Missouri (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 294 0 Browse Search
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y at work, for several days past, landing large bodies of troops on Bratton Island and the Chandeleurs. Outrages in Missouri. Hon. J. H. Brown, of Texas, in his army newspaper, the War Bulletin, published in the camp of McCulloch's division, gives the following samples of Federal outrages in Missouri: Will the God of '76--of Washington, Sumter, Marion, and Moultrie — vouchsafe His blessing to the infidel ruffians who are now ravaging Missouri with fire and sword, stealing like MurrMissouri with fire and sword, stealing like Murrellites, murdering unarmed men, brutally insulting helpless women, and performing deeds of blood and violence known only to savage life? Persons farther South can form no adequate idea of thousands upon thousands of outrages committed in Missouri. Missouri. We could not believe it until we came up here and traveled in that State.--We have had minute facts in hundreds of cases detailed to us by ladies of the highest respectability — many of them exiles from home with their families, and are now in this t
e reasons were given for humbling ourselves under the hand of God. The first was found in our present exposed and threatened condition; the second, in the malignant spirit and vast resources of our enemies; the third, in the prevalence of sin in manifold forms of vice among us, sufficient to call down the vengeance of Heaven upon us; unless by repentance we arrest the arm of righteous indignation and obtain mercy. In unfolding these topics the speaker adverted, first, to our losses in Missouri, Kentucky, and Tennessee, and to the lust of spoil, and power, and revengeful spirit with which our enemy, with superior means and appliances of war, and superior numbers, is approaching our doors. From the contemplation of a state of things where the odds are so much against us, he found no refuge, save in the righteousness of our cause; but in order to avail ourselves of this plea the nation must be pursed of its sins. Among those enumerated were extravagance and love of ease; want of t