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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 Englishspeaking people. This war was quite as full of politics as were the other ...
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 Englishspeaking people. This war was quite as full of politics as were the other ...
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... round the Gulf, catching well throughout Louisiana, where the Governor ordered the state militia to seize every place belonging to the Union, and striking inland till it reached the farthest army posts in Texas. In all Louisiana the ...
... round the Gulf, catching well throughout Louisiana, where the Governor ordered the state militia to seize every place belonging to the Union, and striking inland till it reached the farthest army posts in Texas. In all Louisiana the ...
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... round to Texas. Eight days afterwards he extended it to North Carolina and Virginia. 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 ...
... round to Texas. Eight days afterwards he extended it to North Carolina and Virginia. 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 ...
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... round Jefferson City on the Missouri promised a good crop of enemies to the Union cause. Lyon and Blair wished to march against Price immediately and smash every hostile force while still in the act of forming. But General Harney, who ...
... round Jefferson City on the Missouri promised a good crop of enemies to the Union cause. Lyon and Blair wished to march against Price immediately and smash every hostile force while still in the act of forming. But General Harney, who ...
Contents
CHAPTER II THE COMBATANTS | |
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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