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... garrison , in or- der , as he said , not to provoke Carolina . More- over , in November he had replaced old Colonel Gardner , a Northern veteran of " 1812 , " by Anderson the Southerner , in whom he hoped to find 2 CAPTAINS OF THE CIVIL ...
... garrison , in or- der , as he said , not to provoke Carolina . More- over , in November he had replaced old Colonel Gardner , a Northern veteran of " 1812 , " by Anderson the Southerner , in whom he hoped to find 2 CAPTAINS OF THE CIVIL ...
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... northern side of the harbor mouth stood Fort Moultrie ; at the southern stood the batteries on Cummings Point ; and almost due west of Sumter stood Fort Johnson . Near Moultrie was a four- gun floating battery with an iron shield . A ...
... northern side of the harbor mouth stood Fort Moultrie ; at the southern stood the batteries on Cummings Point ; and almost due west of Sumter stood Fort Johnson . Near Moultrie was a four- gun floating battery with an iron shield . A ...
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... . Armament was bad ; other munitions were worse . There would have been no chance what- ever of holding Harper's Ferry unless the Northern conglomeration had been even less like a fighting army than 22 CAPTAINS OF THE CIVIL WAR.
... . Armament was bad ; other munitions were worse . There would have been no chance what- ever of holding Harper's Ferry unless the Northern conglomeration had been even less like a fighting army than 22 CAPTAINS OF THE CIVIL WAR.
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... Northern invaders might approach , cut Virginia in two ( for West Virginia was then a part of the State ) and , after devastating the valley itself ( thus destroying half the food - base of Virginia ) attack eastern Virginia through ...
... Northern invaders might approach , cut Virginia in two ( for West Virginia was then a part of the State ) and , after devastating the valley itself ( thus destroying half the food - base of Virginia ) attack eastern Virginia through ...
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... northern converged by rail , from Wheeling and Parkersburg , on Grafton , the only junction in West Virginia . The southern ran up the Great Kanawha , with good navigation to Charleston and water enough for small craft on to Gauley ...
... northern converged by rail , from Wheeling and Parkersburg , on Grafton , the only junction in West Virginia . The southern ran up the Great Kanawha , with good navigation to Charleston and water enough for small craft on to Gauley ...
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