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Library of Congress1875

Military record of Louisiana; including biographical and historical papers relating to the military organizations of the state; a soldier's story of the late war, muster rolls, lists of casualities in the various regiments (so far as now known), cemeteries where buried, company journals, personal narratives of prominent actors, etc.

Three of the portraits are mounted photographs. Another issue has 54 pages in second group of paging. Pages 141 and 142 omitted in paging; text and register continuous. Advertisements: [8] p. at end. Also available in digital form.

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Library of Congress1908

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), August 20, 1908

v __ Early Incidents Of the Civil War THE STORY OF THE FRIGATE CUMBERLAND BY CAPTAIN JOHN O JOHNSON OF LIBERTY ME To the Editor of The Journal A few years ago 1 wrote a series of ar ticles relative to the U S Navy which were published in The Journal and which I have reason to believe were well received by the intelligent read ers of your valuable paper Many who read those articles are like Pip in Dick ens Great Expectations continual ly calling tor more and this is my ex cuse for again troubling you to read my poor manuscript and to correct the bad spells Though 1 have not the personal knowledge of the events I am about to describe that 1 had in relation to those of which I have previously written yet circumstances made me very conversant with my present sub ject which is the old US Frigate Cum berland a sailing ship that was very much in evidence before and at the be ginning of the war of the rebellion and which was sunk by the rebel ram Merri mac at Newport News April 8 1802 Since that time she seems to be

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Library of Congress1908

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), August 27, 1908

Early Incidents Of the Civil War _ i the story of the frigate CUMBERLAND BY CAPTAIN JOHN O JOHNSON OF LIBERTY ME Continued It was le desire to conciliate Virgin ia and no the fear of the rebel troops that led to this hesitating conduct on the part of Commodore McCauley and his refusal to permit Lieut Selfridge to go down and guard the mouth of the Elizabeth river Indeed he was pecu larly circumstanced He was surrouud ed on every hand by officers high in rank in thenavy most of them looked up to as the best officers in the service and all or nearly all of them rebels at heart But this fact was unknown to the commandant and was not mis trusted by him until later The only loval officers at this station at that time were the commandant commo dores or captains as there was no rank of commodore in our navy the senior officer in command of a squadron had that honorary title Morrison and Pen dergrastLieutenants Self ridge and Mur ray and Lieutenant of Mariues Hay wood But they all knew that Govern or Letcher of Virginia had forbidden the pilots of Virginia taking

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Library of Congress1900

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), January 4, 1900

Was it Providence A True Story of the Civil War It was in September ltj2 just before that terrible slaughter known as the bat tle of Autietam It was a time when tlie whole world looked on and held its breath The contending armies of the North and the South were about to meet iu a conflict that would go down iu history as one of the great battles of the world There arc those w ho remember how the old Iron Brigade went down as did the famous six hundred in its historic charge at Balak lava how but a remnant remained of that devoted band of heroes and that memory must be filled with horror as they recall the awful loss of precious lives One of the survivors of this Iron Brigade I believe but seven answered the rollcall after the hattle whm before it tin brigade was almost complete con sisting of two legimeuts the Sixth and Seventh Wisconsin Infantry then a mere boy of seventeen summers tells of a most remarkable incident which is the subject of this narrative and from the writers personal knowledge of the man there is no doubt of its truth The

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