Captains of the Civil War: A Chronicle of the Blue and the GrayLibrary of Alexandria, 1921 M01 1 - 424 pages |
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... Valley as well as the point where the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad crossed the Potomac some sixty miles northwest of Washington. Harper's Ferry was known by name to North and South through John Brown's raid two years before. It was now ...
... Valley as well as the point where the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad crossed the Potomac some sixty miles northwest of Washington. Harper's Ferry was known by name to North and South through John Brown's raid two years before. It was now ...
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... Valley, running southwest a hundred and forty miles to the neighborhood of Lexington, with an average width of only twentyfour. Bounded on the west by the Alleghanies and on the east by the long Blue Ridge this valley was a regular ...
... Valley, running southwest a hundred and forty miles to the neighborhood of Lexington, with an average width of only twentyfour. Bounded on the west by the Alleghanies and on the east by the long Blue Ridge this valley was a regular ...
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William Charles Henry Wood. Mississippi ran just below the southwest end of the valley, while a network of roads radiated from Winchester near the northeast end, thirty miles southwest of Harper's Ferry. Throughout the month of May ...
William Charles Henry Wood. Mississippi ran just below the southwest end of the valley, while a network of roads radiated from Winchester near the northeast end, thirty miles southwest of Harper's Ferry. Throughout the month of May ...
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... Valley with Patterson's superior force, while McDowell's superior force attacked or turned Beauregard's position at Bull Run. The Confederate problem was how to give Patterson the slip and reach Bull Run in time to meet McDowell with an ...
... Valley with Patterson's superior force, while McDowell's superior force attacked or turned Beauregard's position at Bull Run. The Confederate problem was how to give Patterson the slip and reach Bull Run in time to meet McDowell with an ...
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... Valley and so prevent all chance of immediate concentration at Bull Run. Johnston saw that the hour had come. It could not have come before, as Lee and the rest had foreseen; because an earlier concentration at Bull Run would have drawn ...
... Valley and so prevent all chance of immediate concentration at Bull Run. Johnston saw that the hour had come. It could not have come before, as Lee and the rest had foreseen; because an earlier concentration at Bull Run would have drawn ...
Contents
CHAPTER III THE NAVAL WAR 1862 | |
CHAPTER IV THE RIVER WAR 1862 | |
CHAPTER V LINCOLN WAR STATESMAN | |
CHAPTER VI LEE AND JACKSON 18623 | |
CHAPTER VII GRANT WINS THE RIVER WAR 1863 | |
CHAPTER VIII GETTYSBURG 1863 | |
CHAPTER IX FARRAGUT AND THE NAVY 18634 | |
CHAPTER X GRANT ATTACKS THE FRONT 1864 | |
CHAPTER XI SHERMAN DESTROYS THE BASE 1864 | |
CHAPTER XII THE END 1865 | |
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE | |
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advance Alabama arms army attack Banks battalion batteries battle Beauregard began blockade Bragg brigade Buell Bull Run campaign cavalry Centreville Charleston Chattanooga civilian Colonel command Confederate corps Culp's Hill Cumberland defeat defense enemy Farragut Federal fighting fire flank fleet flotilla Fortress Monroe fought Fredericksburg front garrison Government Grant gunboats guns Halleck hand Harper's Ferry Henry Hill Hooker hundred infantry ironclad Johnston Kearsarge knew land Lee's Lincoln Longstreet maneuvers McClellan McClernand McDowell Meanwhile Merrimac miles military Mississippi naval navy never North Northern numbers officers orders Orleans Pope Port Hudson Potomac raid rails rear reinforcements retreat Richmond river round sea-power sent Shenandoah Shenandoah Valley Sheridan Sherman ships shot side soldiers South Southern Stanton Stonewall Jackson stood strategic Stuart Sumter supplies surrender Tennessee thousand took troops turned Union armies Union forces Valley vessels Vicksburg victory Washington West Virginia whole