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... Valley as well as the point where the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad crossed the Potomac some sixty miles northwest of Washington . Harper's Ferry was known by name to North and South through John Brown's raid two years before . It was now ...
... Valley as well as the point where the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad crossed the Potomac some sixty miles northwest of Washington . Harper's Ferry was known by name to North and South through John Brown's raid two years before . It was now ...
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... Valley , running southwest a hundred and forty miles to the neigh- borhood of Lexington , with an average width of only twenty - four . Bounded on the west by the Alleghanies and on the east by the long Blue Ridge this valley was a ...
... Valley , running southwest a hundred and forty miles to the neigh- borhood of Lexington , with an average width of only twenty - four . Bounded on the west by the Alleghanies and on the east by the long Blue Ridge this valley was a ...
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... Valley with Patterson's superior force , while 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 ...
... Valley with Patterson's superior force , while 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 ...
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... Valley and so prevent all chance of imme- diate concentration at Bull Run . Johnston saw that the hour had come . It could not have come before , as Lee and the rest had foreseen ; because an earlier concentration at Bull Run would have ...
... Valley and so prevent all chance of imme- diate concentration at Bull Run . Johnston saw that the hour had come . It could not have come before , as Lee and the rest had foreseen ; because an earlier concentration at Bull Run would have ...
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... valley between the Henry Hill and Matthews Hill . Three miles in front , across Bull Run , stood Centreville , the Federal camp and field base during the battle . Sunday , July 21 , 1861 , was a beautiful mid- summer day . Both armies ...
... valley between the Henry Hill and Matthews Hill . Three miles in front , across Bull Run , stood Centreville , the Federal camp and field base during the battle . Sunday , July 21 , 1861 , was a beautiful mid- summer day . Both armies ...
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