Reflections of a Civil War Historian: Essays on Leadership, Society, and the Art of WarUniversity of Missouri Press, 2004 - 254 pages |
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... moved to the vicinity of Manassas to join the Confederate army in Virginia , eventually becoming an element of Maj . Gen. James Longstreet's division . Lee participated conspicuously and well during the various minor episodes of the ...
... moved to the vicinity of Manassas to join the Confederate army in Virginia , eventually becoming an element of Maj . Gen. James Longstreet's division . Lee participated conspicuously and well during the various minor episodes of the ...
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... moved with an element of Longstreet's corps , Maj . Gen. Richard H. Anderson's division , the army's infantry reserve . Lee's battalion was referred to as “ light artillery ” and the objective was , obviously , for the army reserve ...
... moved with an element of Longstreet's corps , Maj . Gen. Richard H. Anderson's division , the army's infantry reserve . Lee's battalion was referred to as “ light artillery ” and the objective was , obviously , for the army reserve ...
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... moved in darkness and, after a tiresome trek, encamped just before dawn on the 30th, not knowing precisely where they were in relation to Jackson's corps, only that they were somewhere on the Warrenton Turnpike. At daybreak Lee ...
... moved in darkness and, after a tiresome trek, encamped just before dawn on the 30th, not knowing precisely where they were in relation to Jackson's corps, only that they were somewhere on the Warrenton Turnpike. At daybreak Lee ...
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... moved toward the extreme left of Jackson's lines . One of the men in Lee's battalion later penned a news release for the Rich- mond Dispatch : 20. Newspaper clipping , August 31 , 1862 , in scrapbooks of Blewett Lee , Lee Museum . The ...
... moved toward the extreme left of Jackson's lines . One of the men in Lee's battalion later penned a news release for the Rich- mond Dispatch : 20. Newspaper clipping , August 31 , 1862 , in scrapbooks of Blewett Lee , Lee Museum . The ...
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... moved up, intimidated by Lee's effective fire. Suffering tremendously from the continuing artillery bursts, three Federal regiments slashed desperately forward, in a futile at- tempt to assault Lee's guns. The howitzers belched canister ...
... moved up, intimidated by Lee's effective fire. Suffering tremendously from the continuing artillery bursts, three Federal regiments slashed desperately forward, in a futile at- tempt to assault Lee's guns. The howitzers belched canister ...
Contents
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The War Strikes Home | 52 |
A Virginian | 66 |
Lincolns Presidential Example in Dealing with the Military | 78 |
The War inside the Church | 99 |
The Crux of Frank L | 111 |
We Shall Cease to Be Friends | 133 |
Civil War to World War I | 147 |
The War Board the Basis of the United States | 158 |
Creation Mobilization | 169 |
The Evolution of Tactics in the Civil War | 200 |
On Remembering and Reliving History | 221 |
Index | 237 |
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