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... West Point expert , and of Dr. Allen Johnson , chief editor of the series and Professor of American History at Yale . WILLIAM WOOD , Late Colonel commanding 8th Royal Rifles , and Officer - in - charge , Canadian Special Mission ...
... West Point expert , and of Dr. Allen Johnson , chief editor of the series and Professor of American History at Yale . WILLIAM WOOD , Late Colonel commanding 8th Royal Rifles , and Officer - in - charge , Canadian Special Mission ...
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... West , a merchant vessel coming in with reinforcements and supplies for Anderson , was fired on and forced to turn back . Anderson , who had expected a man - of - war , would not fire in her defense , partly because he still hoped there ...
... West , a merchant vessel coming in with reinforcements and supplies for Anderson , was fired on and forced to turn back . Anderson , who had expected a man - of - war , would not fire in her defense , partly because he still hoped there ...
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William Wood. X before the Star of the West was fired on at Charles- ton ) some twenty Secessionists came to seize the old Spanish Fort San Carlos , where , up to that time , the powder had been kept . This fort , though lying close ...
William Wood. X before the Star of the West was fired on at Charles- ton ) some twenty Secessionists came to seize the old Spanish Fort San Carlos , where , up to that time , the powder had been kept . This fort , though lying close ...
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... West Point and an exceedingly good officer of engineers before he left them , on promotion , for the cavalry . Very tall and handsome , magnificently fit in body and in mind , genial but of commanding presence , this flower of Southern ...
... West Point and an exceedingly good officer of engineers before he left them , on promotion , for the cavalry . Very tall and handsome , magnificently fit in body and in mind , genial but of commanding presence , this flower of Southern ...
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... 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 Mount Pleasant battery , nearly two miles off from Sumter . At ...
... 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 Mount Pleasant battery , nearly two miles off from Sumter . At ...
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