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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 I. 60 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 36 0 Browse Search
James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 26 2 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 26 0 Browse Search
John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History 24 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: June 11, 1861., [Electronic resource] 23 1 Browse Search
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 17 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: November 3, 1860., [Electronic resource] 16 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 16 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 16 0 Browse Search
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George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 3 (search)
cal horizon for some glimmer of hope that the dreaded resort to arms might be averted. No politician, in the petty sense, he was, in the highest, penetrated with a pure love of country, and believed that, if only time could be gained for reflection, the sober second thought of the people would end in their return to common-sense and reason. In accordance, therefore, with his belief in the wisdom of the most conservative course, he had, in the presidential election of 1860, cast his vote for Bell and Everett. The position at this time of officers of the regular army was an exceedingly trying one, especially for those who, like Captain Meade, were fully alive to the grave responsibility attaching to them as officers of the government, on whose example much depended. The defection of those officers who saw fit to cast their lot with the Confederacy caused the actions of all to be scrutinized, and often misunderstood, in the then excited frame of the public mind. In many instances t
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), Index. (search)
, 64, 83, 84, 100, 182, 188, 327, 332, 333, 335, 337, 339, 340. Barry, Commodore, I, 3. Barstow, S. F., II, 166. Bartlett, Joseph J., II, 100, 107, 231. Bates, Mr., I, 363, 364. Baxter, Henry, II, 48, 49, 50. Bayard, Geo. D., I, 136, 232, 261, 267, 334, 336, 338. Bayfield, Capt., I, 208. Beauregard, P. G. T., I, 196, 257, 271; II, 148. Beckham, Robert F., I, 212, 258, 324, 380, 389; II, 150, 262. Beecher, Henry Ward, II, 236, 237. Belknapp, Col., I, 100. Bell, John, I, 213. Belton, Col., I, 168. Benedict, G. G., II, 350, 351. Benham, H. W., II, 281. Benning, Henry L., II, 81. Berdan, Col., II, 69, 75. Berkeley, I, 387. Bernard, General, I, 8. Berry, Lieut., I, 25. Berry, Hiram G., I, 293, 296, 334, 352, 378. Biddle, Lieut., I, 190. Biddle, Chapman, I, 339; II, 47, 50, 52, 168. Biddle, Charles J., I, 224, 232, 237. Biddle, Craig, I, 241. Biddle, James C., II, 162, 209, 249, 254, 263, 268, 269; 313, 378. Bid