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Fort Sumter stood about half a mile inside the harbor mouth, fully exposed to the
converging fire of four relatively powerful ... A mile northwest of Moultrie, farther
up the harbor, stood the Mount Pleasant battery, nearly two miles off from Sumter.
Fort Sumter stood about half a mile inside the harbor mouth, fully exposed to the
converging fire of four relatively powerful ... A mile northwest of Moultrie, farther
up the harbor, stood the Mount Pleasant battery, nearly two miles off from Sumter.
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Lee had chosen six miles of Bull Run as a good defensive position. But
Beauregard intended to attack, hoping to profit by the Federal disjointedness.
Consequently none of the eight fords were strongly defended except at Union
Mills on the ...
Lee had chosen six miles of Bull Run as a good defensive position. But
Beauregard intended to attack, hoping to profit by the Federal disjointedness.
Consequently none of the eight fords were strongly defended except at Union
Mills on the ...
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The same isthmus narrows to less than two hundred miles between Pittsburgh
and Harrisburg (on the Susquehanna River); and its whole line is almost equally
safe in Northern hands. A little farther south, along the disputed borderlands, ...
The same isthmus narrows to less than two hundred miles between Pittsburgh
and Harrisburg (on the Susquehanna River); and its whole line is almost equally
safe in Northern hands. A little farther south, along the disputed borderlands, ...
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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
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| 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 |
| Publisher | Library of Alexandria, 1921 |
| ISBN | 1465512829, 9781465512826 |
| Length | 424 pages |
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