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William Wood. X X But just a week before Lincoln experienced this inexpressible relief he lost , and his enemy won , a single officer , who , according to Winfield Scott , was alone worth more than fifty thousand veteran men . On the ...
William Wood. X X But just a week before Lincoln experienced this inexpressible relief he lost , and his enemy won , a single officer , who , according to Winfield Scott , was alone worth more than fifty thousand veteran men . On the ...
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... lost to the South already . In Kentucky , the next border State , opinions were likewise divided ; and Kentuckians fought each other with help from both sides . Anderson , of Fort Sumter fame , was appointed to the Kentucky command in ...
... lost to the South already . In Kentucky , the next border State , opinions were likewise divided ; and Kentuckians fought each other with help from both sides . Anderson , of Fort Sumter fame , was appointed to the Kentucky command in ...
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... lost the rest by straggling and by the way in which the battery and battalion already mentioned had " claimed their discharge " at Blackburn's Ford . Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth , while , sorely against his will , the ...
... lost the rest by straggling and by the way in which the battery and battalion already mentioned had " claimed their discharge " at Blackburn's Ford . Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth , while , sorely against his will , the ...
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... lost formation in their advance ; where- upon " Jeb " Stuart , with only a hundred and fifty horsemen , swooped down and smashed them to pieces by a daring charge . Then , just as the scat- tered white turbans went wildly bobbing about ...
... lost formation in their advance ; where- upon " Jeb " Stuart , with only a hundred and fifty horsemen , swooped down and smashed them to pieces by a daring charge . Then , just as the scat- tered white turbans went wildly bobbing about ...
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... lost the war . And yet Bull Run had many points of very great importance . In spite of all shortcomings it showed the good quality of the troops engaged : if not as soldiers , at all events as men . It proved that the war , unlike the ...
... lost the war . And yet Bull Run had many points of very great importance . In spite of all shortcomings it showed the good quality of the troops engaged : if not as soldiers , at all events as men . It proved that the war , unlike the ...
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