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Page 39
... moved to and fro between them . Meanwhile McDowell's thirty - six thousand had marched past the President with bands playing and colors flying amid a scene of great enthusiasm . The press campaign was at its height ; so was the ...
... moved to and fro between them . Meanwhile McDowell's thirty - six thousand had marched past the President with bands playing and colors flying amid a scene of great enthusiasm . The press campaign was at its height ; so was the ...
Page 43
... moved to the rear to the sound of the enemy's cannon . " Thereafter , as military units , they simply ceased to exist . At one o'clock in the morning of this same day Johnston received a telegram at Winchester , from Richmond , warning ...
... moved to the rear to the sound of the enemy's cannon . " Thereafter , as military units , they simply ceased to exist . At one o'clock in the morning of this same day Johnston received a telegram at Winchester , from Richmond , warning ...
Page 64
... came from overseas . Transport was done by road , rail , sea , and in- land waters . Other things being equal , a hundred tons could be moved by water as easily as ten by rail or one by road . Now , the North 64 CAPTAINS OF THE CIVIL WAR.
... came from overseas . Transport was done by road , rail , sea , and in- land waters . Other things being equal , a hundred tons could be moved by water as easily as ten by rail or one by road . Now , the North 64 CAPTAINS OF THE CIVIL WAR.
Page 67
... moved . So Northern sea - power could make its controlling influence felt in one continuous line all round the eastern South , except for fifty miles where small craft were concerned and for two hundred miles in the case of larger ...
... moved . So Northern sea - power could make its controlling influence felt in one continuous line all round the eastern South , except for fifty miles where small craft were concerned and for two hundred miles in the case of larger ...
Page 76
... move round the circumference of a circle while the other moves to meet it along the shorter lines inside . The army moving round the circum- ference is said to be operating on exterior lines , while the army moving from point to point ...
... move round the circumference of a circle while the other moves to meet it along the shorter lines inside . The army moving round the circum- ference is said to be operating on exterior lines , while the army moving from point to point ...
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