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Page 29
... battle was to go against the Federals at Wilson's Creek in the southwest of the State , and even at Lexington on the Missouri , as we shall presently see ; but this was only the breaking of the last Confeder- ate waves . As a State ...
... battle was to go against the Federals at Wilson's Creek in the southwest of the State , and even at Lexington on the Missouri , as we shall presently see ; but this was only the breaking of the last Confeder- ate waves . As a State ...
Page 36
... battle of the war was fought . The Union forces were based on the Potomac from Washington to Harper's Ferry . The Confederates faced them from Bull Run to Winchester , which points were nearly sixty miles apart by road and rail . The ...
... battle of the war was fought . The Union forces were based on the Potomac from Washington to Harper's Ferry . The Confederates faced them from Bull Run to Winchester , which points were nearly sixty miles apart by road and rail . The ...
Page 39
... battle , awaited his further ad- vance four days before retiring . Then , with his fourteen thousand , Patterson advanced again , stood irresolute under distracting orders from the Government in Washington , and finally went to ...
... battle , awaited his further ad- vance four days before retiring . Then , with his fourteen thousand , Patterson advanced again , stood irresolute under distracting orders from the Government in Washington , and finally went to ...
Page 45
... whole days before the last of Johnston's bri- gades arrived , just in time for the crisis of the battle . When Johnston had joined Beauregard their united effective total was thirty thousand men . There THE CLASH : 1861 45.
... whole days before the last of Johnston's bri- gades arrived , just in time for the crisis of the battle . When Johnston had joined Beauregard their united effective total was thirty thousand men . There THE CLASH : 1861 45.
Page 47
... battle . Sunday , July 21 , 1861 , was a beautiful mid- summer day . Both armies were stirring soon after dawn . But a miscarriage of orders delayed the Confederate offensive so much that the initiative of attack passed to the Federals ...
... battle . Sunday , July 21 , 1861 , was a beautiful mid- summer day . Both armies were stirring soon after dawn . But a miscarriage of orders delayed the Confederate offensive so much that the initiative of attack passed to the Federals ...
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