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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.
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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Sixty years ago today the guns that thundered round Fort Sumter began the third and greatest modern civil war fought by Englishspeaking people. This war was quite as full of politics as were the other two--the War of the American ...
Sixty years ago today the guns that thundered round Fort Sumter began the third and greatest modern civil war fought by Englishspeaking people. This war was quite as full of politics as were the other two--the War of the American ...
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While Charleston and Pensacola were fanning the flames of secession the wildfire was running round the Gulf, catching well throughout Louisiana, where the Governor ordered the state militia to seize every place belonging to the Union, ...
While Charleston and Pensacola were fanning the flames of secession the wildfire was running round the Gulf, catching well throughout Louisiana, where the Governor ordered the state militia to seize every place belonging to the Union, ...
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Two days later Confederate letters of marque were issued to any privateers that would prey on Union shipping. Two days later again Lincoln declared a blockade of every port from South Carolina round to Texas. Eight days afterwards he ...
Two days later Confederate letters of marque were issued to any privateers that would prey on Union shipping. Two days later again Lincoln declared a blockade of every port from South Carolina round to Texas. Eight days afterwards he ...
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This unfortunate incident hardened many neutrals and even Unionists against the Union forces; so much so that Sterling Price, a Unionist and former governor, became a Confederate general, whose field for recruiting round Jefferson City ...
This unfortunate incident hardened many neutrals and even Unionists against the Union forces; so much so that Sterling Price, a Unionist and former governor, became a Confederate general, whose field for recruiting round Jefferson City ...
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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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