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Page 15
... called fleet was a mere assemblage of vessels quite unable to fight the Charleston batteries and without the slightest chance of saving Sumter . Having done his best for the honor of the flag , though not a man was killed within the ...
... called fleet was a mere assemblage of vessels quite unable to fight the Charleston batteries and without the slightest chance of saving Sumter . Having done his best for the honor of the flag , though not a man was killed within the ...
Page 16
... called for 75,000 three- month volunteers . Two days later Confederate letters of marque were issued to any privateers that would prey on Union shipping . Two days later again Lincoln declared a blockade of every port from South ...
... called for 75,000 three- month volunteers . Two days later Confederate letters of marque were issued to any privateers that would prey on Union shipping . Two days later again Lincoln declared a blockade of every port from South ...
Page 25
... called for men whose term of service would be three years and not three months . Just a week later Missouri was saved for the Union by the daring skill of two determined leaders , Francis P. Blair , a Member of Congress who be- came a ...
... called for men whose term of service would be three years and not three months . Just a week later Missouri was saved for the Union by the daring skill of two determined leaders , Francis P. Blair , a Member of Congress who be- came a ...
Page 33
... called for three - month volunteers . In May the term of service for new enlistments was three years . In June the military chiefs at Washington were vainly doing all that military men could do to make something like the beginnings of ...
... called for three - month volunteers . In May the term of service for new enlistments was three years . In June the military chiefs at Washington were vainly doing all that military men could do to make something like the beginnings of ...
Page 59
... called themselves the Sons of Lib- erty . The war party , with a better appreciation of how names and things should be connected , used their own descriptive " Copperhead " in its ་ appropriate meaning of a poisonous snake in the grass ...
... called themselves the Sons of Lib- erty . The war party , with a better appreciation of how names and things should be connected , used their own descriptive " Copperhead " in its ་ appropriate meaning of a poisonous snake in the grass ...
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admirable arms army attack Banks battalion batteries battle Beauregard began blockade Bragg brigade Buell Bull Run campaign cavalry Charleston Chattanooga civil civilian Colonel command Confederate corps Culp's Hill defeat defense enemy Farragut Federal fighting fire flank fleet flotilla Fortress Monroe forts fought Fredericksburg Frémont front garrison Government Grant gunboats guns Halleck hand Harper's Ferry Henry Hill Hooker hundred ironclad Jackson Johnston Kearsarge knew land Lee's Lincoln Longstreet McClellan McClernand McDowell Merrimac miles military Mississippi naval navy never North Northern numbers officers Ohio orders Orleans Pope Port Hudson Potomac raid rails rear reinforcements retreat Richmond river road round sea-power sent Shenandoah Shenandoah Valley Sheridan Sherman ships shot side soldiers South Southern Stanton Stonewall Jackson stood strategic Stuart Sumter supplies surrender Tennessee thousand took troops turned Union armies Union forces Valley vessels Vicksburg victory Washington West Virginia whole