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War Fifty Years Ago by James A Edgerton
This 1911 retrospective notes July 1861 events as Congress meets in special session, voting bonds and expanding powers amid Dayton era peril. It covers Falling Waters and Buckhannon battles, Patterson and McClellan operations, Wheeling legislature, and Missouri actions. It highlights leading figures like Hamlin Browning Grow and Pierpont, with multiple state and military movements shaping the early Civil War.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
USA
Federal Congress
Falling Waters
Bealington
Harpers Ferry
Buckhannon
West Virginia
Great Balls
Newport News
Mao
Grow
Texas
Congress
Pennsylvania
Elihu B. Washburne
Owen Lovejoy
John A. So
Ters
Carthage
Western Virginia
Wheeling
Kentucky
John C. Fremont
Cienfuegos
Sumter
Potomac
Senate
House
Virginia
John S. Carlile
William T. Willey
Andrew Johnson
Tennessee
Hannibal Hamlin
Lincoln
Mlinois
Douglas
Orville H. Browning
Lyman Trumbull
Maine
Lot M. Morris
William Pitt Fessenden
Massachusetts
Charles Sumner
Henry Wilson
Ohio
Benjamin F. Wade
John Sherman
James A. Bayard
Delaware
James Harlan
Iowa
Zachariah Chandler
Michigan
John P. Hale
New Hampshire
Preston King
New York
Edward D. Baker
Oregon
David Wilmot
Henry B. Anthony
Rhode Island
Jacob Collamer
Vermont
Timothy O. Howe
Wisconsin
Washington
Patterson
Williamsport
John J. Abercrombie
T. J
Stonewall
Watterson
Jetiston
Francis
Pierpont
Richmond
T. A. Morris
McClellan
Morris
Henry A. Wise
Garnett
Laurel Hill
Indiana
Georgia
Beverly