Captains of the Civil War: A Chronicle of the Blue and the Gray, Volume 31Yale University Press, 1921 - 424 pages |
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... campaign . But Sherman was determined to stand by the Union , come what might . Yet he was equally determined to wind up the affairs of the State Academy so as to hand them over in per- fect order . A few days after the seizure of the ...
... campaign . But Sherman was determined to stand by the Union , come what might . Yet he was equally determined to wind up the affairs of the State Academy so as to hand them over in per- fect order . A few days after the seizure of the ...
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... campaign was already being fought in West Virginia . West Virginia , which became a separate State during the war , was strongly Federal , like eastern Tennessee . These Federal parts of two Confed- erate States formed a wedge dangerous ...
... campaign was already being fought in West Virginia . West Virginia , which became a separate State during the war , was strongly Federal , like eastern Tennessee . These Federal parts of two Confed- erate States formed a wedge dangerous ...
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... campaign in West Virginia . But the Kanawha campaign , which lasted tili November , had only just begun , with Rosecrans as successor to McClellan ( who had been recalled to Washington for very high command ) and with General Jacob D ...
... campaign in West Virginia . But the Kanawha campaign , which lasted tili November , had only just begun , with Rosecrans as successor to McClellan ( who had been recalled to Washington for very high command ) and with General Jacob D ...
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... campaign in West Virginia was a foregone conclusion . It was not marked by any real bat- tles ; and there was no scope for exceptional skill of the higher kind on either side . But it made McClellan's bubble reputation . McClellan was ...
... campaign in West Virginia was a foregone conclusion . It was not marked by any real bat- tles ; and there was no scope for exceptional skill of the higher kind on either side . But it made McClellan's bubble reputation . McClellan was ...
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... campaign , the Government wanted to retrieve Bull Run they turned to the " Man of Destiny " who had been given the nois- iest advertisement as the " Young Napoleon of the West . " McClellan had many good qualities for organization , and ...
... campaign , the Government wanted to retrieve Bull Run they turned to the " Man of Destiny " who had been given the nois- iest advertisement as the " Young Napoleon of the West . " McClellan had many good qualities for organization , and ...
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