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... Tennessee . These Federal parts of two Confed- erate States formed a wedge dangerous to the whole South , especially to Virginia and the Carolinas . Each side therefore tried to control this area itself . The Federals , under McClellan ...
... Tennessee . These Federal parts of two Confed- erate States formed a wedge dangerous to the whole South , especially to Virginia and the Carolinas . Each side therefore tried to control this area itself . The Federals , under McClellan ...
Page 56
... 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 , the four ...
... 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 , the four ...
Page 57
... Tennessee . Among the small seafaring population along the Southern coast there were also some strongly Union men . Counting out Northern Confederates and South- ern Federals as canceling each other , so far as effective fighting was ...
... Tennessee . Among the small seafaring population along the Southern coast there were also some strongly Union men . Counting out Northern Confederates and South- ern Federals as canceling each other , so far as effective fighting was ...
Page 68
... Tennessee , Missouri , Arkansas , and Red rivers . This meant that the North would not only enjoy the vast advantages of transport by water over transport by land but that it would cause the best lines of invasion to be opened up as ...
... Tennessee , Missouri , Arkansas , and Red rivers . This meant that the North would not only enjoy the vast advantages of transport by water over transport by land but that it would cause the best lines of invasion to be opened up as ...
Page 121
... Tennessee flows into the Ohio . Then , on the seventh of November , he closed the first confused campaign on the Mississippi by at- tacking Belmont , Missouri , twenty miles down- stream from Cairo , in order to prevent the Con ...
... Tennessee flows into the Ohio . Then , on the seventh of November , he closed the first confused campaign on the Mississippi by at- tacking Belmont , Missouri , twenty miles down- stream from Cairo , in order to prevent the Con ...
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