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Page 19
... Jackson took com- mand at 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 ...
... Jackson took com- mand at 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 ...
Page 21
... Jackson , mounted on Little Sorrel , a horse as unpretentious as himself , and dressed in his faded old blue professor's uniform without one gleam of gold . He had only two staff officers , both dressed as plainly as himself . He was ...
... Jackson , mounted on Little Sorrel , a horse as unpretentious as himself , and dressed in his faded old blue professor's uniform without one gleam of gold . He had only two staff officers , both dressed as plainly as himself . He was ...
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... Jackson was given the First Shenandoah Brigade , a unit soon , like himself , to be raised by service into fame . On the first and third of May Virginia issued calls for more men ; and on the third Lincoln , who quite understood the ...
... Jackson was given the First Shenandoah Brigade , a unit soon , like himself , to be raised by service into fame . On the first and third of May Virginia issued calls for more men ; and on the third Lincoln , who quite understood the ...
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... Jackson in a far less favorable place . So vigorously had Blair and Lyon worked that they had armed thousands while Frost had only armed hundreds . But when Frost received siege guns and mortars from farther south Lyon felt the time had ...
... Jackson in a far less favorable place . So vigorously had Blair and Lyon worked that they had armed thousands while Frost had only armed hundreds . But when Frost received siege guns and mortars from farther south Lyon felt the time had ...
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... Jackson at once prepared to fight . Then sundry neutrals , of the gabbling kind who think talk enough will settle anything , induced the implacables to meet in St. Louis . The conference was ended by Lyon's declaration that he would see ...
... Jackson at once prepared to fight . Then sundry neutrals , of the gabbling kind who think talk enough will settle anything , induced the implacables to meet in St. Louis . The conference was ended by Lyon's declaration that he would see ...
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