Captains of the Civil War: A Chronicle of the Blue and the GrayYale University Press, 1921 - 424 pages |
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... rest was all just sheer hard work . He kept his own counsel so carefully that no one knew anything about what he would do if the enemy advanced . Even the officers of outposts were forbidden to notice or mention his arrival or departure ...
... rest was all just sheer hard work . He kept his own counsel so carefully that no one knew anything about what he would do if the enemy advanced . Even the officers of outposts were forbidden to notice or mention his arrival or departure ...
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... rest- ing in a field . Galloping among them suddenly he shouted , " Throw down your arms or you are all dead men ! " Whereupon they all threw down their arms ; and his troopers led them off . Patter- son , badly served by his very raw ...
... rest- ing in a field . Galloping among them suddenly he shouted , " Throw down your arms or you are all dead men ! " Whereupon they all threw down their arms ; and his troopers led them off . Patter- son , badly served by his very raw ...
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... rest had foreseen ; because an earlier concentration at Bull Run would have drawn the two superior Federal forces together on the selfsame spot . There was still some risk about giving Patterson the slip . True , his three - month ...
... rest had foreseen ; because an earlier concentration at Bull Run would have drawn the two superior Federal forces together on the selfsame spot . There was still some risk about giving Patterson the slip . True , his three - month ...
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... rest by straggling and by the way in which the battery and battalion already mentioned had " claimed their discharge " at Blackburn's Ford . Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth , while , sorely against his will , the Federals were ...
... rest by straggling and by the way in which the battery and battalion already mentioned had " claimed their discharge " at Blackburn's Ford . Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth , while , sorely against his will , the Federals were ...
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... to Beauregard , posted some men to hold the Stone Bridge , and marched the rest to crown the Matthews Hill , fac- ing Sudley Springs a mile away . Meanwhile four - of " Joe " Johnston's five Shenandoah brigades Bee's THE CLASH : 1861 47.
... to Beauregard , posted some men to hold the Stone Bridge , and marched the rest to crown the Matthews Hill , fac- ing Sudley Springs a mile away . Meanwhile four - of " Joe " Johnston's five Shenandoah brigades Bee's THE CLASH : 1861 47.
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Page 289 - 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 188 - 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 364 - Your suggestion about getting a furlough to take the stump was certainly made without reflection. An officer fit for duty who at this crisis would abandon his post to electioneer for a seat in Congress ought to be scalped.
Page 176 - Must I shoot a simpleminded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert?
Page 259 - Order AP Hill to prepare for action ! pass the infantry to the front rapidly ! tell Major Hawks " — then stopped, leaving the sentence unfinished.
Page 227 - 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 7 - 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 190 - Dear Madam: I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle.
Page 186 - He brought out a map of Virginia on which he had evidently marked every position occupied by the Federal and Confederate armies up to that time. He pointed out on the map two streams ; which empty into the Potomac, and suggested that the army might be moved on boats and landed between the mouths of these streams. We would then have the Potomac to bring our supplies, and the tributaries would protect our flanks while we moved out. I listened respectfully, but did not suggest that the same streams...
Page 394 - The perspiration came out in large drops on his forehead, and he did not attempt to conceal his distress. He denounced the act as a disgrace to the age, and hoped I did not charge it to the Confederate Government. I told him I .could not believe that he or General Lee, or the officers of the Confederate army, could possibly be privy to acts of assassination ; but I would not say as much for Jeff. Davis, George Sanders, and men of that stripe.