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... Harper's Ferry and the Navy Yard at Norfolk . The work of demolition at Harper's Ferry had to be bungled off in haste , owing to shortness of time and lack of means . The demolition of Norfolk was better done , and the ships were sunk ...
... Harper's Ferry and the Navy Yard at Norfolk . The work of demolition at Harper's Ferry had to be bungled off in haste , owing to shortness of time and lack of means . The demolition of Norfolk was better done , and the ships were sunk ...
Page 19
... Harper's Ferry . Johnston played a great and noble part throughout the war ; and we shall meet him again and again , down to the very end . But Jackson claims our first attention here . Like all the great leaders on both sides Jackson + ...
... Harper's Ferry . Johnston played a great and noble part throughout the war ; and we shall meet him again and again , down to the very end . But Jackson claims our first attention here . Like all the great leaders on both sides Jackson + ...
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... Harper's Ferry was a strategic point in north- ern Virginia . It was the gate to the Shenandoah Valley as well as the point where the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad crossed the Potomac some sixty miles northwest of Washington . Harper's Ferry ...
... Harper's Ferry was a strategic point in north- ern Virginia . It was the gate to the Shenandoah Valley as well as the point where the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad crossed the Potomac some sixty miles northwest of Washington . Harper's Ferry ...
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... Harper's Ferry , when the sun was shining , as at a grand review in Paris . Into this gaudy assemblage rode Thomas Jona- X than Jackson , mounted on Little Sorrel , a horse as unpretentious as himself , and dressed in his faded old blue ...
... Harper's Ferry , when the sun was shining , as at a grand review in Paris . Into this gaudy assemblage rode Thomas Jona- X than Jackson , mounted on Little Sorrel , a horse as unpretentious as himself , and dressed in his faded old blue ...
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William Wood. Ferry felt that they would lose caste on Sunday afternoons under a commandant like this . Their feelings ... Harper's Ferry unless the Northern conglomeration had been even less like a fighting army than 22 CAPTAINS OF THE ...
William Wood. Ferry felt that they would lose caste on Sunday afternoons under a commandant like this . Their feelings ... Harper's Ferry unless the Northern conglomeration had been even less like a fighting army than 22 CAPTAINS OF THE ...
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