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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 56 0 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 12 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 12 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 10 0 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2 10 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Irene E. Jerome., In a fair country 6 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men 4 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 4 0 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 8: Soldier Life and Secret Service. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 4 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: August 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Federal Generals — Wool for Butler. (search)
The Federal Generals — Wool for Butler. When the Queen of Sheba visited the great Oriental monarch, we read that she presented him with apes and peacocks, though it is not stated that they were designed for the chiefs of his "grand army." Since the Virginia races of Bethel and Manassas, the unlucky Federal Generals have been pitched out of the camp as unceremoniously as ever a litter of blind puppies were tumbled out of a bag into the horse-pond.--Under these circumstances a substitute was indispensable, and a venerable turkey cock is to supercede the "butler" sent in disgrace from Fortress Monroe. We doubt whether the world has ever seen a "grand army" headed by two such antiquated coxcombs as Fuss and Feathers and his rival, numbering one hundred and fifty years between them — equals in age, in vanity, and in mutual hatred. Of all the birds, the turkey is the most stupid; but he will fly at anything, even if ten times stronger than himself. So Gen. Magruder will have to