 | John Townsend Trowbridge - Reconstruction - 1866 - 622 pages
...ransoms to the marauders. But now its time had come. The Confederate leaders demanded of the authorities one hundred thousand dollars in gold, or five hundred thousand dollars in United States currency ; promising that if the money was not forthcoming in fifteen minutes, the torch,... | |
 | John Townsend Trowbridge - Reconstruction - 1868 - 774 pages
...ransoms to the marauders. But now its time had come. The Confederate leaders demanded of the authorities one hundred thousand dollars in gold, or five hundred thousand dollars in United ^States currency; promising that if the money was not forthcoming in fifteen minutes, the torch... | |
 | John Townsend Trowbridge - Reconstruction - 1868 - 792 pages
...ransoms to the marauders. But now its time had come. The Confederate leaders demanded of the authorities one hundred thousand dollars in gold, or five hundred thousand dollars in United States currency ; promising that if the money was not forthcoming in fifteen minutes, the torch... | |
 | John Townsend Trowbridge - Reconstruction - 1868 - 796 pages
...ransoms to the marauders. But now its time had come. The Confederate leaders demanded of the authorities one hundred thousand dollars in gold, or five hundred thousand dollars in United States currency ; promising that if the money was not forthcoming in fifteen' minutes, the torch... | |
 | Frank Moore - United States - 1868 - 842 pages
...followed by mounted men under Gilmore. The main force, was in lino of battle, and a demand was made for one hundred thousand dollars in gold, or five hundred thousand dollars in Government funds, as ransom, and a number of citizens were arrested and held as hostages for its payment.... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1877 - 674 pages
...CHAMBERSBTJRG. 349 •deserted village of Chambersburg,1 in Pennsylvania, and demanded of the inhabitants two hundred thousand dollars in gold, or five hundred thousand dollars in " greenbacks " * or currency, as a tribute to insure the town from destruction. The tribute was not offered, and... | |
 | Bookbinding - 1879 - 810 pages
...to the proper authorities, a proclamation which he had issued, calling upon them to furnish me with one hundred thousand dollars in gold, or five hundred thousand dollars in greenbacks, and in case the money was not furnished I was ordered to burn the city and return to Virginia. The proclamation... | |
 | Jefferson Davis - Confederate States of America - 1881 - 930 pages
...Johnson's and a battery of artillery to that place, and demand of the municipal authorities the sum of one hundred thousand dollars in gold, or five hundred thousand dollars in United States currency, as a compensation for the destruction of the houses named and their contents... | |
 | Jefferson Davis - Confederate States of America - 1881 - 882 pages
...Johnson's and a battery of artillery to that place, and demand of the municipal authorities the sum of one hundred thousand dollars in gold, or five hundred thousand dollars in United States currency, as a compensation for the destruction of the houses named and their contents... | |
 | Jefferson Davis - Confederate States of America - 1881 - 902 pages
...Johnson's and a battery of artillery to that place, and demand of the municipal authorities the sum of one hundred thousand dollars in gold, or five hundred thousand dollars in United States currency, as a compensation for the destruction of the houses named and their contents... | |
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States currency ; promising that if the money was not forthcoming in fifteen minutes, the torch, would be applied. I know not whether it was possible to raise so great a sum in so short a time. At all events, it was not raised. 
