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Page 33
... McDowell . But civilian interference ruined all . Even Lincoln had not yet learned the quintessen- tial difference between that civil control by which the fighting services are so rightly made the real servants of the whole people and ...
... McDowell . But civilian interference ruined all . Even Lincoln had not yet learned the quintessen- tial difference between that civil control by which the fighting services are so rightly made the real servants of the whole people and ...
Page 34
... McDowell " on to Richmond . " Making the best of a bad business , Scott had already begun his preparations for the premature advance . By the end of May Confederate pickets had been in sight of Washington , while McDowell , crossing the ...
... McDowell " on to Richmond . " Making the best of a bad business , Scott had already begun his preparations for the premature advance . By the end of May Confederate pickets had been in sight of Washington , while McDowell , crossing the ...
Page 36
... McDowell's superior force attacked or turned Beauregard's position at Bull Run . The Confederate problem was how to give Patterson the slip and reach Bull Run in time to meet McDowell with an equal force . X The Confederates had the ...
... McDowell's superior force attacked or turned Beauregard's position at Bull Run . The Confederate problem was how to give Patterson the slip and reach Bull Run in time to meet McDowell with an equal force . X The Confederates had the ...
Page 39
... McDowell's thirty - six thousand had marched past the President with bands playing and colors flying amid a scene of great enthusiasm . The press campaign was at its height ; so was the speechifying ; and ninety - nine people out of ...
... McDowell's thirty - six thousand had marched past the President with bands playing and colors flying amid a scene of great enthusiasm . The press campaign was at its height ; so was the speechifying ; and ninety - nine people out of ...
Page 40
... McDowell's staff , and " during the nine- teenth and twentieth the bivouacs at Centreville , almost within cannon range of the enemy , were thronged with visitors , official and unofficial , who came in carriages from Washington , were ...
... McDowell's staff , and " during the nine- teenth and twentieth the bivouacs at Centreville , almost within cannon range of the enemy , were thronged with visitors , official and unofficial , who came in carriages from Washington , were ...
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