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The Daily Dispatch: June 5, 1861., [Electronic resource] 8 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore) 5 5 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3 4 0 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2 4 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 4 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 3 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 2 2 Browse Search
Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant 2 0 Browse Search
Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States. 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: June 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], Northern regiments returning home. (search)
witness a trial before the chief officer of the law, vulgarly called a Justice of the Peace. The case was "Hanks vs. Breese," and the facts were: First. That the parties had violated the law by playing "poker" on the Sabbath. (It is perhaps proper to state that the good folks of Deadwood had not seen the Supreme Court decisions.) Second. That Breese played very "low down," or, in other words, cheated plaintiff. Third. That the game broke up in a row, the parties being arrnt of money at stake at the time the quarrel commenced." "Steve," said the Judge familiarly, "you say that when Bill Breese shoved up his dollar. Lem Hanks took a sniffer and 'peared sort o' keerless. What did he do then?" "Why, he seed Bturning to the witness, he said, "Steve, if the Court recollects herself, then you came up with the spondulieks, and Bill Breese tuck down Lem's pile." This announcement was followed by murmurs of dissatisfaction. The attorney for the plaintiff