Stormy Petrel: The Life and Times of General Benjamin F. Butler, 1818-1893Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1969 - 335 pages |
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Page 79
... rail connection between Baltimore and the North had been broken . All telegraph lines north and west of the city were cut the next day . Thus Washington was almost com- pletely isolated . For nearly a week the only communication be ...
... rail connection between Baltimore and the North had been broken . All telegraph lines north and west of the city were cut the next day . Thus Washington was almost com- pletely isolated . For nearly a week the only communication be ...
Page 88
... rails , and they were private property . It is difficult to see how it can be that if my troops could not pass . . . one way members of the legislature could pass the other way.2 26 This answer seems to have left the Governor at a loss ...
... rails , and they were private property . It is difficult to see how it can be that if my troops could not pass . . . one way members of the legislature could pass the other way.2 26 This answer seems to have left the Governor at a loss ...
Page 103
... Rail- road's civil engineers who supervised the laying of tracks to vari- ous parts of the post , using rails and ties from Confederate stores captured at Alexandria , Virginia . Much work also had to be done to put Fortress Monroe into ...
... Rail- road's civil engineers who supervised the laying of tracks to vari- ous parts of the post , using rails and ties from Confederate stores captured at Alexandria , Virginia . Much work also had to be done to put Fortress Monroe into ...
Contents
Meet General Butler | 13 |
As the Twig is Bent | 20 |
A Practical Politician | 37 |
Copyright | |
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