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Isaac O. Best, History of the 121st New York State Infantry 14 6 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 4 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. 3 1 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 2 0 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 1 1 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America, together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published: description of towns and cities. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 1 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: February 3, 1865., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: February 3, 1865., [Electronic resource], The effect of Example.--playing "Confiscation." (search)
The effect of Example.--playing "Confiscation." --In the village of Herkimer, New York, last week, three boys, having, no doubt, read of the desolation of the Shenandoah Valley, engaged in playing "confiscation," as they termed it. They entered the house of a lady who was absent from home for a week or two, and spent the most of two whole days in destroying and mutilating everything in reach. They ripped open and broke into pieces sofas and chairs, broke bureaus and mirrors, went into the cellar; taking all its contents in the way of preserves, molasses, vinegar, etc, up into the front parlor, and there spreading them out on carpet, and mixing them up with flour, feathers from the bed and almost every imaginable thing in the house. They took up handfuls of butter and lard and threw them over the walls and furniture, and, in fact, exhausted all their ingenuity to perfectly destroy everything they could find. --They then proceeded to "confiscate" the school-house, entering it t