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... fighting the flames while a few were firing at long intervals to show they would not yet give in . This excited the generous admiration of the enemy , who cheered the gallan- try of Sumter while sneering at the caution of the Union ...
... fighting the flames while a few were firing at long intervals to show they would not yet give in . This excited the generous admiration of the enemy , who cheered the gallan- try of Sumter while sneering at the caution of the Union ...
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... staff . Armament was bad ; other munitions were worse . There would have been no chance what- ever of holding Harper's Ferry unless the Northern conglomeration had been even less like a fighting army than 22 CAPTAINS OF THE CIVIL WAR.
... staff . Armament was bad ; other munitions were worse . There would have been no chance what- ever of holding Harper's Ferry unless the Northern conglomeration had been even less like a fighting army than 22 CAPTAINS OF THE CIVIL WAR.
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William Wood. conglomeration had been even less like a fighting army than the Southern was . Harper's Ferry was not only important in itself but still more important for what it covered : the wonderfully fruitful Shenandoah Valley ...
William Wood. conglomeration had been even less like a fighting army than the Southern was . Harper's Ferry was not only important in itself but still more important for what it covered : the wonderfully fruitful Shenandoah Valley ...
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... fighting services are so rightly made the real servants of the whole people and that civilian inter- ference which is very much the same as if a land- lubber owning a ship should grab the wheel re- peatedly in the middle of a storm ...
... fighting services are so rightly made the real servants of the whole people and that civilian inter- ference which is very much the same as if a land- lubber owning a ship should grab the wheel re- peatedly in the middle of a storm ...
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... fighting men , not any particular place , should always be their main objective . On the fourteenth of June Johnston had de- stroyed everything useful to the enemy at Harper's Ferry and retired to Winchester . On the twentieth Jackson's ...
... fighting men , not any particular place , should always be their main objective . On the fourteenth of June Johnston had de- stroyed everything useful to the enemy at Harper's Ferry and retired to Winchester . On the twentieth Jackson's ...
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