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Page 13
... four- gun floating battery with an iron shield . A mile northwest of Moultrie , farther up the harbor , stood the Mount Pleasant battery , nearly two miles off from Sumter . At half - past four , in the first faint light of a gray ...
... four- gun floating battery with an iron shield . A mile northwest of Moultrie , farther up the harbor , stood the Mount Pleasant battery , nearly two miles off from Sumter . At half - past four , in the first faint light of a gray ...
Page 16
... four years in Con- federate hands , Sumter was recaptured by the Union forces on the anniversary of its surrender . It was often bombarded , though never taken , in the meantime . The fall of Sumter not only fired all Union loy- alty ...
... four years in Con- federate hands , Sumter was recaptured by the Union forces on the anniversary of its surrender . It was often bombarded , though never taken , in the meantime . The fall of Sumter not only fired all Union loy- alty ...
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... four thousand . They were a mere conglomera- tion of semi - independent units , mostly composed of raw recruits under officers who themselves knew next to nothing . As usual with such fledgling troops there was no end to the fuss and ...
... four thousand . They were a mere conglomera- tion of semi - independent units , mostly composed of raw recruits under officers who themselves knew next to nothing . As usual with such fledgling troops there was no end to the fuss and ...
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... four . Bounded on the west by the Alleghanies and on the east by the long Blue Ridge this valley was a regular covered way by which the Northern invaders might approach , cut Virginia in two ( for West Virginia was then a part of the ...
... four . Bounded on the west by the Alleghanies and on the east by the long Blue Ridge this valley was a regular covered way by which the Northern invaders might approach , cut Virginia in two ( for West Virginia was then a part of the ...
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... 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 Charlestown on the seventeenth of July - almost ...
... 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 Charlestown on the seventeenth of July - almost ...
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