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Page 30
... loss , to Beverly , thirty miles farther south still . Here there was a combat at Rich Mountain on the eleventh of July . The Confederates again retreated , losing General Garnett in a skirmish the following day . This ended McClellan's ...
... loss , to Beverly , thirty miles farther south still . Here there was a combat at Rich Mountain on the eleventh of July . The Confederates again retreated , losing General Garnett in a skirmish the following day . This ended McClellan's ...
Page 54
... losses were comparatively small - 3553 killed and wounded on both sides put together : not ten per cent of the less than forty thousand who actually fought . Moreover , the side that won the battle lost the war . And yet Bull Run had ...
... losses were comparatively small - 3553 killed and wounded on both sides put together : not ten per cent of the less than forty thousand who actually fought . Moreover , the side that won the battle lost the war . And yet Bull Run had ...
Page 62
... loss of a good quarter of the engineers . In agriculture of all kinds both North and South were very strong for purposes of peace . Each had food in superabundance . But the trad- ing strength of the South lay in cotton and tobacco ...
... loss of a good quarter of the engineers . In agriculture of all kinds both North and South were very strong for purposes of peace . Each had food in superabundance . But the trad- ing strength of the South lay in cotton and tobacco ...
Page 83
... losses of war are not to be measured in money . The real loss was the loss of a million men , on both sides put together , for these men who died were of the nation's best . CHAPTER III THE NAVAL WAR : 1862 BULL RUN had THE COMBATANTS 83.
... losses of war are not to be measured in money . The real loss was the loss of a million men , on both sides put together , for these men who died were of the nation's best . CHAPTER III THE NAVAL WAR : 1862 BULL RUN had THE COMBATANTS 83.
Page 96
... loss required for re- ducing the forts and would take the weak defenses of New Orleans entirely by surprise . Then , when New Orleans fell , the forts , cut off from all sup- plies , would have to surrender without the firing of another ...
... loss required for re- ducing the forts and would take the weak defenses of New Orleans entirely by surprise . Then , when New Orleans fell , the forts , cut off from all sup- plies , would have to surrender without the firing of another ...
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