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101Author:  Brooks Collection: Brooks, CharlesRequires cookie*
 Title:  Letter to Emmet Brooks  
 Published:  1998 
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102Author:  Brooks Collection: Brooks, CharlesRequires cookie*
 Title:  Letter to Eleanor Stuart Brooks  
 Published:  1998 
 Description: I hope you have received the letter sent off on yesterday. When I left home I thought perhaps I would have returned before this; but instead of that we are getting further away and I hope gaining an im portant victory for the Confederacy. Our division of the army was pretty quiet on Saturday and Sunday, but a pretty hard battle occured Sunday evening, to our right, on the York River Railroad about eight miles below Richmond. Gen. Hills division was the principal one engaged. Early this morning all Jackson's troops crossed the Chickihomany and all the army are following up the enemy; for I should have stated that he was again whipped on yesterday. We crossed the battle field on this mor ning! There were many dead and for miles the coun try wa is strewn with knapsacks blankets over- coats and various other articles. Squads of prisoners have been coming in all day and probably five or six hundred have been captured. I saw five about three hundred captured horses and mules this morning. The enemy have crossed a stream fourteen miles below Richmond and blown up the bridge, and heavy cannonading has been going on this evening across the stream. Time is important for them in order to get commisary stores out of the way. If it were not for his Gunboats McClelland might find some dif ficulty in finding a place of rest on Virginia's soil.[1] We havn't seen our wagons for five days and have lived principally on hard bread and havn't been particular about clean sheets or the abundance of our covering. It is now about sundown and I will stop; but probably add somthing more before I mail it.
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103Author:  Brooks Collection: Trible, SchylerRequires cookie*
 Title:  Letter to James Brooks  
 Published:  1998 
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104Author:  Brooks Collection: Brooks, CharlesRequires cookie*
 Title:  Letter to Emmet Brooks  
 Published:  1998 
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105Author:  Brooks Collection: Brooks, AndrewRequires cookie*
 Title:  Letter to Emmet Brooks  
 Published:  1998 
 Description: Your letter was received yesterday evening. I had mailed one to you in the morning. I have had very little opportunity to make the inquiries you wish. I have been on road detail to day (making corduroy road to Guinney's[2]) and have to go again to morrow, so you see it will be impossible to go to Guinney Station before Monday, if indeed I can go then. I suppose you were led to believe, that large profits could be made on skillets from having heard us speak of having to pay 12 or 15 dollars for one. If you could get that price, it would pay very well, but I do not think you could get it; unless you could get them to the different brigades of the army and sell them there, in which case, I think they would bring 12 dols'. The sutlers [3] of regiments do not buy them at all, so far as I can hear, unless they get orders for them. As for the Sutlers at the Station, I can not speak positively, but think they act in the same way. The day you went up, McKee [4] failed to get one, but got the promise of one soon, if he would leave 10 dols, his name etc, which he would not do. However I am of the opinion that you might sell them there for 8 dollars apiece, in lots of 20, or 30, and it might be as many as 60. I think there would be no risk in you staying a few days, at the Station. But you know there is no accomodation there, and no place to keep them. I got the box that night. It was a treat, I tell you, but you will know that after the sight of it. The coffee is delicious. McKee got his furlough next day and started in about an hour. John D. got his too, and went Monday. I want you to send me a tin plate by him. If you buy skillets, you ought to do it at once while the army is lying quiet. A good many soldiers have been courtmartialed in the brigade. Several were publicly whipped today, and four others . Haven't heard the sentences of the Killians[5].
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106Author:  Brooks Collection: Brooks, AndrewRequires cookie*
 Title:  Letter to Eleanor Stuart Brooks  
 Published:  1998 
 Description: Your letter by Jimmy Burns[2] was received this evening. Charles' letter came yesterday, after looking for a letter for a week. I had begun to think you had forgotten me, it was so long coming. He mentioned that Johny had gone to somewhere (but didn't say where) except that I would no doubt see him before I got his letter. He didn't tell me what he had gone for, or anything about it, nor did you except that he sent to Genl Lee a recommendation for my detail. What sort of a thing is it and who recommended me. I suppose he was in Richmond and took the contract to the war office. I havn't gotten the letter you say he wrote me and have never gotten but one letter from him since I left. I have been very anxious to hear from him, and know what is doing at the Furnace. It will now soon be time it was put in blast. When I commenced writing I had just returned from preaching, which we have every night. Dr. Hoge[3] and Mr. Lacy [4] are gone. There is a chaplain with each regiment of the brigade, two Presbyterians and three Methodists. Lieut Culton[5] has resigned - unable to stand infantry service. I dont know who will get his place, if his resignation is accepted. We heard considerable firing across the river yesterday, but havent heard the cause. Wednesday morning, I will get the box today -am very much obliged to you all for it -I am not much afraid of it being much like what y I get here, there is but one place I ever saw that I got such rations. I am sorry Miss Sue Harden is about to leave the neighborhood -young people are sadly scarce there. Emmett is on another trip to Uncle John's, wonder if he will get ther this time. I heard Mary Susan [6] was to atttend a small party at Dr. Dold's -a kind of farewell to Jim[7] I suppose. I am very well. Love to all the friends.
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107Author:  Alexander, HartleyRequires cookie*
 Title:  American Indian Myth Poems  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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108Author:  Andreyev, LeonidRequires cookie*
 Title:  To the Russian Soldier  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: SOLDIER, what hast thou been under Nicholas the Secone? Thou hast been a slave of the autocrat. Conscience, honor, love for the people, were beaten out of thee in merciless training by whip and stick.
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109Author:  AnonymousRequires cookie*
 Title:  Amours De Voyage  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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110Author:  AnonymousRequires cookie*
 Title:  Beowulf  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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111Author:  Beecher, Catharine E.Requires cookie*
 Title:  An essay on slavery and abolitionism, with reference to the duty of American females. By Catharine E. Beecher  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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112Author:  Bibb, HenryRequires cookie*
 Title:  Narrative of the life and adventures of Henry Bibb, an American slave, written by himself. With an introd. by Lucius C. Matlack.  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Sketch of my Parentage. — Early separation from my Mother. — Hard Fare. — First Experiments at running away. — Earnest longing for Freedom. — Abhorrent nature of Slavery.
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113Author:  BoethiusRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Consolation of Philosophy (Trans. W.V. Cooper, 1902)  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: 'To pleasant songs my work was erstwhile given, and bright were all my labours then; but now in tears to sad refrains am I compelled to turn. Thus my maimed Muses guide my pen, and gloomy songs make no feigned tears bedew my face. Then could no fear so overcome to leave me companionless upon my way. They were the pride of my earlier bright-lived days: in my later gloomy days they are the comfort of my fate; for hastened by unhappiness has age come upon me without warning, and grief hath set within me the old age of her gloom. White hairs are scattered untimely on my head, and the skin hangs loosely from my worn-out limbs.
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114Author:  Brawley, BenjaminRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Negro in American Fiction  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Ever since Sydney Smith sneered at American books a hundred years ago, honest critics have asked themselves if the literature of the United States was not really open to the charge of provincialism. Within the last year or two the argument has been very much revived; and an English critic, Mr. Edward Garnett, writing in "The Atlantic Monthly," has pointed out that with our predigested ideas and made-to-order fiction we not only discourage individual genius but make it possible for the multitude to think only such thoughts as have passed through a sieve. Our most popular novelists, and sometimes our most respectable writers, see only the sensation that is uppermost for the moment in the mind of the crowd, — divorce, graft, tainted meat or money, — and they proceed to cut the cloth of their fiction accordingly. Mr. Owen Wister, a "regular practitioner" of the novelist's art, in substance admitting the weight of these charges, lays the blame on our crass democracy which utterly refuses to do its own thinking and which is satisfied only with the tinsel and gewgaws and hobbyhorses of literature. And no theme has suffered so much from the coarseness of the mob-spirit in literature as that of the Negro.
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115Author:  Burr, George Lincoln, 1857-1938Requires cookie*
 Title:  "A Brief and True Narrative, by Deodat Lawson, 1692," from Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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116Author:  Burr, George Lincoln, 1857-1938Requires cookie*
 Title:  "Letter of Thomas Brattle, F. R. S., 1692"; from Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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117Author:  Burr, George Lincoln, 1857-1938Requires cookie*
 Title:  "Letters of Governor Phips to the Home Government, 1692-1693"; Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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118Author:  Burr, George Lincoln, 1857-1938Requires cookie*
 Title:  "The Wonders of the Invisible World," by Cotton Mather, 1693 ; from Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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119Author:  Burr, George Lincoln, 1857-1938Requires cookie*
 Title:  "More Wonders of the Invisible World," by Robert Calef, 1700 ; from Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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120Author:  Burr, George Lincoln, 1857-1938Requires cookie*
 Title:  A Modest Inquiry Into The Nature Of Witchcraft, By John Hale, 1702 ; from Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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