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Page 23
... Mississippi ran just below the southwest end of the valley , while a network of roads radiated from Winchester near the northeast end , thirty miles southwest of Harper's Ferry . Throughout the month of May Jackson went on working his ...
... Mississippi ran just below the southwest end of the valley , while a network of roads radiated from Winchester near the northeast end , thirty miles southwest of Harper's Ferry . Throughout the month of May Jackson went on working his ...
Page 28
... Mississippi by hold- ing St. Louis . He had also secured supremacy in arms , munitions , and morale . By turning the Governor out of Jefferson City , the State capital , he had deprived the Confederates of the prestige and convenience ...
... Mississippi by hold- ing St. Louis . He had also secured supremacy in arms , munitions , and morale . By turning the Governor out of Jefferson City , the State capital , he had deprived the Confederates of the prestige and convenience ...
Page 56
... Mississippi , Tennessee , Louisiana , Texas , and Arkansas . But the moun- tain folk of western Virginia and eastern Tennessee were strong Unionists ; and West Virginia became a State while the war was being fought . On the other hand ...
... Mississippi , Tennessee , Louisiana , Texas , and Arkansas . But the moun- tain folk of western Virginia and eastern Tennessee were strong Unionists ; and West Virginia became a State while the war was being fought . On the other hand ...
Page 66
... Mississippi would effect the division , while holding the Ohio would make the eastern part a peninsula , with the upper end of the isthmus safe in Northern hands between Pitts- burgh , the great coal and iron inland port , and ...
... Mississippi would effect the division , while holding the Ohio would make the eastern part a peninsula , with the upper end of the isthmus safe in Northern hands between Pitts- burgh , the great coal and iron inland port , and ...
Page 68
... Mississippi , the supple left fingers could feel their way along the tributary streams until the clutching hand had got its grip on the whole of the Ohio , Cumberland , Tennessee , Missouri , Arkansas , and Red rivers . This meant that ...
... Mississippi , the supple left fingers could feel their way along the tributary streams until the clutching hand had got its grip on the whole of the Ohio , Cumberland , Tennessee , Missouri , Arkansas , and Red rivers . This meant that ...
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