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... West Point and an exceedingly good officer of engineers before he left them , on promotion , for the cavalry . Very ... Virginia , soon to become one of the very few really great commanders of the world . As Lee came up to the hotel at ...
... West Point and an exceedingly good officer of engineers before he left them , on promotion , for the cavalry . Very ... Virginia , soon to become one of the very few really great commanders of the world . As Lee came up to the hotel at ...
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... 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 whichever gaps might serve the purpose ...
... 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 whichever gaps might serve the purpose ...
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... West Virginia and Maryland , both of which he hoped to see on the Confederate side . He was him- self a West Virginian , born at Clarksburg ; and it grieved him greatly when West Virginia stood by the Union . Apart from this he did ...
... West Virginia and Maryland , both of which he hoped to see on the Confederate side . He was him- self a West Virginian , born at Clarksburg ; and it grieved him greatly when West Virginia stood by the Union . Apart from this he did ...
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... West Virginia . West Virginia , which became a separate State during the war , was strongly Federal , like eastern Tennessee . These Federal parts of two Confed- erate States formed a wedge dangerous to the whole South , especially to ...
... West Virginia . West Virginia , which became a separate State during the war , was strongly Federal , like eastern Tennessee . These Federal parts of two Confed- erate States formed a wedge dangerous to the whole South , especially to ...
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William Wood. X soon hear more , had two lines of invasion into West Virginia , both based on the Ohio . The northern converged by rail , from Wheeling and Parkersburg , on Grafton , the only junction in West Virginia . The southern ran ...
William Wood. X soon hear more , had two lines of invasion into West Virginia , both based on the Ohio . The northern converged by rail , from Wheeling and Parkersburg , on Grafton , the only junction in West Virginia . The southern ran ...
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