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On the ninth Slemmer received orders from Winfield Scott, General-in-Chief at Washington, to use all means in defense of Union property. Next morning Slemmer and his fifty faithful men were landed on Santa Rosa Island, just one mile ...
On the ninth Slemmer received orders from Winfield Scott, General-in-Chief at Washington, to use all means in defense of Union property. Next morning Slemmer and his fifty faithful men were landed on Santa Rosa Island, just one mile ...
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... no support, and not even any guidance from the Government at Washington, he surrendered with the honors of war and left by boat for St. Louis in Missouri. There was then in Louisiana another Union officer; but made of sterner stuff.
... no support, and not even any guidance from the Government at Washington, he surrendered with the honors of war and left by boat for St. Louis in Missouri. There was then in Louisiana another Union officer; but made of sterner stuff.
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He was on his way to Washington, where Winfield Scott, the veteran General-in-Chief, was anxiously waiting to see him; for this colonel was no ordinary man. He had been Scott's Chief of Staff in Mexico, where he had twice won promotion ...
He was on his way to Washington, where Winfield Scott, the veteran General-in-Chief, was anxiously waiting to see him; for this colonel was no ordinary man. He had been Scott's Chief of Staff in Mexico, where he had twice won promotion ...
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... quoting Lee's final words in Texas, carries us to the point of parting: "I still think my loyalty to Virginia ought to take precedence over that which is due to the Federal Government; and I shall so report myself in Washington.
... quoting Lee's final words in Texas, carries us to the point of parting: "I still think my loyalty to Virginia ought to take precedence over that which is due to the Federal Government; and I shall so report myself in Washington.
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But in the meantime Lincoln had been himself marooned in Washington. On the nineteenth of April, the day he declared his first blockade, the Sixth Massachusetts were attacked by a mob in Baltimore, through which the direct rails ran ...
But in the meantime Lincoln had been himself marooned in Washington. On the nineteenth of April, the day he declared his first blockade, the Sixth Massachusetts were attacked by a mob in Baltimore, through which the direct rails ran ...
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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
Bibliographic information
| Title | Captains of the Civil War: A Chronicle of the Blue and the Gray Volume 1 of Library of Alexandria Volume 31 of Chronicles of America series Volume 14, Part 2 of Franklin ed |
| Author | William Charles Henry Wood |
| Edition | abridged |
| Publisher | Library of Alexandria, 1921 |
| ISBN | 1465512829, 9781465512826 |
| Length | 424 pages |
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