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... brigades . There was a deplor- able lack of cavalry , artillery , engineers , commis- sariat , transport , medical services , and , above all , staff . Armament was bad ; other munitions were worse . There would have been no chance what ...
... brigades . There was a deplor- able lack of cavalry , artillery , engineers , commis- sariat , transport , medical services , and , above all , staff . Armament was bad ; other munitions were worse . There would have been no chance what ...
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... Brigade , a unit soon , like himself , to be raised by service into fame . On the first and third of May Virginia issued calls for more men ; and on the third Lincoln , who quite understood the signs of the times , called for men whose ...
... Brigade , a unit soon , like himself , to be raised by service into fame . On the first and third of May Virginia issued calls for more men ; and on the third Lincoln , who quite understood the signs of the times , called for men whose ...
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... brigade marched on Martinsburg to destroy the workshops of the Baltimore and Ohio Railway and to support the three hundred troopers under J. E. B. Stuart , who was so soon to be the greatest of cavalry commanders on the Confederate Χ ...
... brigade marched on Martinsburg to destroy the workshops of the Baltimore and Ohio Railway and to support the three hundred troopers under J. E. B. Stuart , who was so soon to be the greatest of cavalry commanders on the Confederate Χ ...
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... brigades , of course becoming more and more inefficient as the units grew more and more com- plex . Of the still more essential discipline they naturally knew still less . There was no lack of courage ; for these were the same breed of ...
... brigades , of course becoming more and more inefficient as the units grew more and more com- plex . Of the still more essential discipline they naturally knew still less . There was no lack of courage ; for these were the same breed of ...
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... brigade , " demonstrated little save the general laxity of discipline ; for , with all my personal efforts , I could not prevent the men from straggling for water , blackberries , or anything on the way they fancied . " In the whole of ...
... brigade , " demonstrated little save the general laxity of discipline ; for , with all my personal efforts , I could not prevent the men from straggling for water , blackberries , or anything on the way they fancied . " In the whole of ...
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