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... Southern officer , was stirred to his inmost depths by his own change of allegiance . " I have come , " he said , " to ask of you young officers , officers of the same army in which I have spent the best and happiest years of my life ...
... Southern officer , was stirred to his inmost depths by his own change of allegiance . " I have come , " he said , " to ask of you young officers , officers of the same army in which I have spent the best and happiest years of my life ...
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... Southern chivalry was not only every inch a soldier but a leader born and bred . Though still unknown to public fame he was the one man to whom the most insightful leaders of both sides turned , and rightly turned ; for this was Robert ...
... Southern chivalry was not only every inch a soldier but a leader born and bred . Though still unknown to public fame he was the one man to whom the most insightful leaders of both sides turned , and rightly turned ; for this was Robert ...
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... 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 mile northwest of Moultrie , farther up the harbor , stood 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 mile northwest of Moultrie , farther up the harbor , stood the ...
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... Southern life , above all , a change imposed by force from outside , instead of the grad- ual change he wished to see effected from within . He was opposed to slavery ; and both his own and X his wife's slaves had long been free . Like ...
... Southern life , above all , a change imposed by force from outside , instead of the grad- ual change he wished to see effected from within . He was opposed to slavery ; and both his own and X his wife's slaves had long been free . Like ...
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William Wood. conglomeration had been even less like a fighting army than the Southern was . Harper's Ferry was not only important in itself but still more important for what it covered : the wonderfully fruitful Shenandoah Valley ...
William Wood. conglomeration had been even less like a fighting army than the Southern was . Harper's Ferry was not only important in itself but still more important for what it covered : the wonderfully fruitful Shenandoah Valley ...
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