Captains of the Civil War: A Chronicle of the Blue and the GrayYale University Press, 1921 - 424 pages |
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... battle was to go against the Federals at Wilson's Creek in the southwest of the State , and even at Lexington on the Missouri , as we shall presently see ; but this was only the breaking of the last Confeder- ate waves . As a State ...
... battle was to go against the Federals at Wilson's Creek in the southwest of the State , and even at Lexington on the Missouri , as we shall presently see ; but this was only the breaking of the last Confeder- ate waves . As a State ...
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... battle of the war was fought . The Union forces were based on the Potomac from Washington to Harper's Ferry . The Confederates faced them from Bull Run to Winchester , which points were nearly sixty miles apart by road and rail . The ...
... battle of the war was fought . The Union forces were based on the Potomac from Washington to Harper's Ferry . The Confederates faced them from Bull Run to Winchester , which points were nearly sixty miles apart by road and rail . The ...
Page 39
... battle , awaited his further ad- vance four days before retiring . Then , with his fourteen thousand , Patterson advanced again , stood irresolute under distracting orders from the Government in Washington , and finally went to ...
... battle , awaited his further ad- vance four days before retiring . Then , with his fourteen thousand , Patterson advanced again , stood irresolute under distracting orders from the Government in Washington , and finally went to ...
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... whole days before the last of Johnston's bri- gades arrived , just in time for the crisis of the battle . When Johnston had joined Beauregard their united effective total was thirty thousand men . There THE CLASH : 1861 45.
... whole days before the last of Johnston's bri- gades arrived , just in time for the crisis of the battle . When Johnston had joined Beauregard their united effective total was thirty thousand men . There THE CLASH : 1861 45.
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... battle . Sunday , July 21 , 1861 , was a beautiful mid- summer day . Both armies were stirring soon after dawn . But a miscarriage of orders delayed the Confederate offensive so much that the initiative of attack passed to the Federals ...
... battle . Sunday , July 21 , 1861 , was a beautiful mid- summer day . Both armies were stirring soon after dawn . But a miscarriage of orders delayed the Confederate offensive so much that the initiative of attack passed to the Federals ...
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Page 282 - I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the army and the government needed a dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship.
Page 282 - Burnside's command of the army you have taken counsel of your ambition and thwarted him as much as you could, in which you did a great wrong to the country and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer.
Page 281 - I have placed you at the head of the Army of the Potomac. Of course I have done this upon what appear to me to be sufficient reasons, and yet I think it best for you to know that there are some things in regard to which I am not quite satisfied with you.
Page 384 - The arms, artillery, and public property to be parked and stacked, and turned over to the officers appointed by me to receive them. This will not embrace the side-arms of the officers, nor their private horses or baggage.
Page 251 - Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees...
Page 184 - This morning, as for some days past, it seems exceedingly probable that this Administration will not be re-elected. Then it will be my duty to so cooperate with the President-elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration ; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he cannot possibly save it afterwards.
Page 219 - Let us discard such ideas. The strongest position a soldier should desire to occupy is one from which he can most easily advance against the enemy. Let us study the probable lines of retreat of our opponents, and leave our own to take care of themselves.
Page 358 - If the people raise a howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity-seeking. If they want peace, they and their relatives must stop the war.
Page 5 - And furthermore, as president of the Board of Supervisors, I beg you to take immediate steps to relieve me as superintendent, the moment the State determines to secede, for on no earthly account will I do any act or think any thought hostile to or in defiance of the old Government of the United States.
Page 370 - I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton.