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William Wood. ΤΟ MY AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE BOONE AND CROCKETT CLUB PREFACE SIXTY years ago today the guns that thundered round.
William Wood. ΤΟ MY AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE BOONE AND CROCKETT CLUB PREFACE SIXTY years ago today the guns that thundered round.
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William Wood. _ . _ _ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - PREFACE Sixty years ago today the guns that thundered round.
William Wood. _ . _ _ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - PREFACE Sixty years ago today the guns that thundered round.
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William Wood. PREFACE SIXTY years ago today the guns that thundered round Fort Sumter began the third and greatest modern civil war fought by English - speaking people . This war was quite as full of politics as were the other two- the ...
William Wood. PREFACE SIXTY years ago today the guns that thundered round Fort Sumter began the third and greatest modern civil war fought by English - speaking people . This war was quite as full of politics as were the other two- the ...
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... 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 morning , a ...
... 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 morning , a ...
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... guns , which were mounted on the upper works and therefore more exposed . Shell fire would have burst the bales and ... guns and fired them in succession . The aim lacked final correction ; and the result was small , except that Moultrie ...
... guns , which were mounted on the upper works and therefore more exposed . Shell fire would have burst the bales and ... guns and fired them in succession . The aim lacked final correction ; and the result was small , except that Moultrie ...
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