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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 19 1 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 19 1 Browse Search
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2 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. 12 4 Browse Search
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States 10 0 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. 10 2 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: September 4, 1862., [Electronic resource] 10 0 Browse Search
James Redpath, The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States. 8 0 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1 8 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. 7 1 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: December 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], Important from Mississippi sound — large Lincoln force on Ship Island — immense reinforcements expected. (search)
necticut, and Atlantic, with two regiments from Massachusetts and one from Maine. The forces on the island, when he left, were about 8,000 men, and 30,000 more troops were expected in a few days. Those now on Ship Island are under command of Col. Phelps, he being the senior colonel, and is said to be a rank Abolitionist. The Quartermaster-General is Col. Butler, brother to Gen. Butler, who is the Commander of the expedition, and is looked for daily. Col. Phelps (before Capt. Legarde lefCol. Phelps (before Capt. Legarde left the island) had a proclamation ready to send on shore. It was so rapidly abolition that the Commander of the fleet had refused to allow any of the boats from the fleet to go ashore with it, and orders had been given if any of the army boats attempted to go ashore with a view of distributing the proclamation to sink the boats. Copies of it had been sent North for the Northern papers, and a steamer had been dispatched to overhaul the vessel that had the copies on board. As soon as Gen. P