Captains of the Civil War: A Chronicle of the Blue and the GrayYale University Press, 1921 - 424 pages |
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... 1863-4 66 287 66 307 X. GRANT ATTACKS THE FRONT : 1864 XI . SHERMAN DESTROYS THE BASE : 1864 66 327 66 366 66 XII . THE END : 1865 379 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE 66 397 66 INDEX 401 ILLUSTRATIONS " LET US HAVE PEACE " -APPOMAT- TOX , xi.
... 1863-4 66 287 66 307 X. GRANT ATTACKS THE FRONT : 1864 XI . SHERMAN DESTROYS THE BASE : 1864 66 327 66 366 66 XII . THE END : 1865 379 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE 66 397 66 INDEX 401 ILLUSTRATIONS " LET US HAVE PEACE " -APPOMAT- TOX , xi.
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... base of Virginia ) attack eastern Virginia through whichever gaps might serve the purpose best . More than this , the only direct line from Richmond to the Mississippi ran just below the southwest end of the valley , while a network of ...
... base of Virginia ) attack eastern Virginia through whichever gaps might serve the purpose best . More than this , the only direct line from Richmond to the Mississippi ran just below the southwest end of the valley , while a network of ...
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... base during the battle . Sunday , July 21 , 1861 , was a beautiful mid- summer day . Both armies were stirring soon after dawn . But a miscarriage of orders delayed the Confederate offensive so much that the initiative of attack passed ...
... base during the battle . Sunday , July 21 , 1861 , was a beautiful mid- summer day . Both armies were stirring soon after dawn . But a miscarriage of orders delayed the Confederate offensive so much that the initiative of attack passed ...
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... base for supplying many of his most pressing needs in arms , equipment , clothing , and even food - for Southern transport suffered from many disabilities . Fierce wolfish cries would mingle with the rebel yell in battle when the two ...
... base for supplying many of his most pressing needs in arms , equipment , clothing , and even food - for Southern transport suffered from many disabilities . Fierce wolfish cries would mingle with the rebel yell in battle when the two ...
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... base of war supplies , a force which enabled the Union armies to get and keep the strangle - hold which did the South to death . The blockade declared in April was no empty threat . The sails of Federal frigates , still more the ...
... base of war supplies , a force which enabled the Union armies to get and keep the strangle - hold which did the South to death . The blockade declared in April was no empty threat . The sails of Federal frigates , still more the ...
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Page 282 - I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the army and the government needed a dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship.
Page 281 - I have placed you at the head of the Army of the Potomac. Of course I have done this upon what appear to me to be sufficient reasons, and yet I think it best for you to know that there are some things in regard to which I am not quite satisfied with you.
Page 350 - Your suggestion about getting a furlough to take the stump was certainly made without reflection. An officer fit for duty who at this crisis would abandon his post to electioneer for a seat in Congress ought to be scalped.
Page 376 - The arms, artillery, and public property to be parked and stacked, and turned over to the officers appointed by me to receive them. This will not embrace the side-arms of the officers, nor their private horses or baggage.
Page 182 - This morning, as for some days past, it seems exceedingly probable that this Administration will not be re-elected. Then it will be my duty to so cooperate with the President-elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration ; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he cannot possibly save it afterwards.
Page 219 - Let us discard such ideas. The strongest position a soldier should desire to occupy is one from which he can most easily advance against the enemy. Let us study the probable lines of retreat of our opponents, and leave our own to take care of themselves.
Page 352 - If the people raise a howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity-seeking. If they want peace, they and their relatives must stop the war.
Page 183 - Dear Madam: I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle.
Page 7 - And furthermore, as president of the Board of Supervisors, I beg you to take immediate steps to relieve me as superintendent, the moment the State determines to secede, for on no earthly account will I do any act or think any thought hostile to or in defiance of the old Government of the United States.
Page 362 - I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton.