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Page 33
... civilian interference ruined all . Even Lincoln had not yet learned the quintessen- tial difference between that civil control by which the fighting services are so rightly made the real servants of the whole people and that civilian ...
... civilian interference ruined all . Even Lincoln had not yet learned the quintessen- tial difference between that civil control by which the fighting services are so rightly made the real servants of the whole people and that civilian ...
Page 37
... civilian chiefs at Washington did not see that the best of all defense was to destroy the enemy's means of destroying them , and that his greatest force of fighting men , not any particular place , should always be their main objective ...
... civilian chiefs at Washington did not see that the best of all defense was to destroy the enemy's means of destroying them , and that his greatest force of fighting men , not any particular place , should always be their main objective ...
Page 42
... civilian drivers ; while other , and quite superfluous , civil- ians clogged every movement and made confusion worse confounded . " The march , " says Sherman , who commanded a brigade , " demonstrated little save the general laxity of ...
... civilian drivers ; while other , and quite superfluous , civil- ians clogged every movement and made confusion worse confounded . " The march , " says Sherman , who commanded a brigade , " demonstrated little save the general laxity of ...
Page 54
... civilians , became a torrent . Bull Run was only a special - constable affair on a gigantic scale . The losses were comparatively small - 3553 killed and wounded on both sides put together : not ten per cent of the less than forty ...
... civilians , became a torrent . Bull Run was only a special - constable affair on a gigantic scale . The losses were comparatively small - 3553 killed and wounded on both sides put together : not ten per cent of the less than forty ...
Page 69
... civilian inter- ference . The Administration actually refused to buy the beginnings of a ready - made sea - going fleet when it had the offer of ten British East Indiamen specially built for rapid conversion into men - of- war . Forty ...
... civilian inter- ference . The Administration actually refused to buy the beginnings of a ready - made sea - going fleet when it had the offer of ten British East Indiamen specially built for rapid conversion into men - of- war . Forty ...
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