Captains of the Civil War: A Chronicle of the Blue and the GrayLibrary of Alexandria, 1921 M01 1 - 424 pages |
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... Wood. Captains of the Civil War; A Chronicle of the Blue and the Gray William Charles Henry Wood PREFACE Sixty years ago today the guns that thundered round Captains of the Civil War; A Chronicle of the Blue and the Gray.
... Wood. Captains of the Civil War; A Chronicle of the Blue and the Gray William Charles Henry Wood PREFACE Sixty years ago today the guns that thundered round Captains of the Civil War; A Chronicle of the Blue and the Gray.
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William Charles Henry Wood. PREFACE. Sixty years ago today the guns that thundered round Fort Sumter began the third and greatest modern civil war fought by English- speaking people. This war was quite as full of politics as were the ...
William Charles Henry Wood. PREFACE. Sixty years ago today the guns that thundered round Fort Sumter began the third and greatest modern civil war fought by English- speaking people. This war was quite as full of politics as were the ...
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... gun floating battery with an iron shield. A mile northwest of Moultrie, farther up the harbor, stood the Mount Pleasant battery, nearly two miles off from Sumter. At half-past four, in the first faint light of a gray morning, a sudden ...
... gun floating battery with an iron shield. A mile northwest of Moultrie, farther up the harbor, stood the Mount Pleasant battery, nearly two miles off from Sumter. At half-past four, in the first faint light of a gray morning, a sudden ...
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... guns and fired them in succession. The aim lacked final correction; and the result was small, except that Moultrie, thinking itself in danger, concentrated all its efforts on silencing these guns. The silencing seemed most effective ...
... guns and fired them in succession. The aim lacked final correction; and the result was small, except that Moultrie, thinking itself in danger, concentrated all its efforts on silencing these guns. The silencing seemed most effective ...
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... guns, and then, with colors flying, marched down on board a transport to the strains of Yankee Doodle. Strange to say, after being four years in Confederate hands, Sumter was recaptured by the Union forces on the anniversary of its ...
... guns, and then, with colors flying, marched down on board a transport to the strains of Yankee Doodle. Strange to say, after being four years in Confederate hands, Sumter was recaptured by the Union forces on the anniversary of its ...
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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