Captains of the Civil War: A Chronicle of the Blue and the GrayYale University Press, 1921 - 424 pages |
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... fighting the flames while a few were firing at long intervals to show they would not yet give in . This excited the generous admiration of the enemy , who cheered the gallan- try of Sumter while sneering at the caution of the Union ...
... fighting the flames while a few were firing at long intervals to show they would not yet give in . This excited the generous admiration of the enemy , who cheered the gallan- try of Sumter while sneering at the caution of the Union ...
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... staff . Armament was bad ; other munitions were worse . There would have been no chance what- ever of holding Harper's Ferry unless the Northern conglomeration had been even less like a fighting army than 22 CAPTAINS OF THE CIVIL WAR.
... staff . Armament was bad ; other munitions were worse . There would have been no chance what- ever of holding Harper's Ferry unless the Northern conglomeration had been even less like a fighting army than 22 CAPTAINS OF THE CIVIL WAR.
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... fighting army than the Southern was . Harper's Ferry was not only important in itself but still more important for what it covered : the wonderfully fruitful Shenandoah Valley , running southwest a hundred and forty miles to the neigh ...
... fighting army than the Southern was . Harper's Ferry was not only important in itself but still more important for what it covered : the wonderfully fruitful Shenandoah Valley , running southwest a hundred and forty miles to the neigh ...
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... fighting services are so rightly made the real servants of the whole people and that civilian inter- ference which is very much the same as if a land- lubber owning a ship should grab the wheel re- peatedly in the middle of a storm ...
... fighting services are so rightly made the real servants of the whole people and that civilian inter- ference which is very much the same as if a land- lubber owning a ship should grab the wheel re- peatedly in the middle of a storm ...
Page 37
... fighting men , not any particular place , should always be their main objective . On the fourteenth of June Johnston had de- stroyed everything useful to the enemy at Harper's Ferry and retired to Winchester . On the twentieth Jackson's ...
... fighting men , not any particular place , should always be their main objective . On the fourteenth of June Johnston had de- stroyed everything useful to the enemy at Harper's Ferry and retired to Winchester . On the twentieth Jackson's ...
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arms army attack Banks battalion batteries battle Beauregard began blockade Bragg brigade Buell Bull Run campaign cavalry Chattanooga civilian Colonel command Confederate corps Culp's Hill defeat defense enemy Farragut Federal fell fighting fire flank fleet flotilla Fortress Monroe forts fought Fredericksburg Frémont front garrison Government Grant gunboats guns Halleck hand Harper's Ferry Henry Hill Hill Hooker hundred ironclad Jackson Johnston Kearsarge knew land Lee's Lincoln Longstreet McClellan McClernand McDowell Meade Merrimac miles military Mississippi naval navy never North Northern numbers officers Ohio orders Orleans Pope Port Hudson Potomac raid rails rear reinforcements retreat Richmond river road 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 tion took troops turned Union armies Union forces Valley vessels Vicksburg victory Washington whole
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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.