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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 265 9 Browse Search
Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War 8 2 Browse Search
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary 4 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: January 25, 1862., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 3 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: December 25, 1865., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865 2 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 10: The Armies and the Leaders. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 2 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 33. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 2 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: December 25, 1865., [Electronic resource], Mining and the miner. (search)
Mining and the miner. In these cold and nipping days, when the good people of Richmond and Petersburg put their toes on the fender and poke their coal fires into blaze, they rarely think where that coal comes from, or of the labor, the courage, the patience and the skill required to bring its cheerfulness and glow to their hearth-stones. The coal measure of Chesterfield are worked at two print rest points. One near Coalfield station, on the Danville road, and the other at Clover Hill. At the latter place the works are quite extensive. The strata of coal outcrop there and dip to the westward, descending at about the angle of twenty-three degrees. These seams or layers of coal — alternating with layers of stone like the cake and jelly of jelly-cake — differ much in thickness. The richest is about twenty-seven feet through. Some are so thin that the working of them would not be productive.--The mines are of two kinds. One kind begin at the outcrop, where the coal comes