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... NAVY : 1863-4 ་ ་ 307 X. GRANT ATTACKS THE FRONT : 1864 XI . SHERMAN DESTROYS THE BASE : 1864 66 327 66 366 66 XII . THE END : 1865 379 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE 66 397 INDEX 4 401 ILLUSTRATIONS GENERAL U. S. GRANT Photograph by Brady . In xi.
... NAVY : 1863-4 ་ ་ 307 X. GRANT ATTACKS THE FRONT : 1864 XI . SHERMAN DESTROYS THE BASE : 1864 66 327 66 366 66 XII . THE END : 1865 379 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE 66 397 INDEX 4 401 ILLUSTRATIONS GENERAL U. S. GRANT Photograph by Brady . In xi.
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... Navy Yard , distracted between the Union and secession . On the ninth Slemmer received orders from Winfield Scott , General - in - Chief at Washing- ton , to use all means in defense of Union property . Next morning Slemmer and his ...
... Navy Yard , distracted between the Union and secession . On the ninth Slemmer received orders from Winfield Scott , General - in - Chief at Washing- ton , to use all means in defense of Union property . Next morning Slemmer and his ...
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... Navy for the service of the South . Chase , like many another Southern officer , was stirred to his inmost depths by his own change of allegiance . " I have come , " he said , " to ask of you young officers , officers of the same army ...
... Navy for the service of the South . Chase , like many another Southern officer , was stirred to his inmost depths by his own change of allegiance . " I have come , " he said , " to ask of you young officers , officers of the same army ...
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... Navy Act , au- thorizing the purchase or construction of ten little gunboats . In April the main storm center went whirling back to Charleston , where Sherman's old friend Beauregard commanded the forces that encircled Sumter . Sumter ...
... Navy Act , au- thorizing the purchase or construction of ten little gunboats . In April the main storm center went whirling back to Charleston , where Sherman's old friend Beauregard commanded the forces that encircled Sumter . Sumter ...
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... Navy Yard at Norfolk . The work of demolition at Harper's Ferry had to be bungled off in haste , owing to shortness of time and lack of means . The demolition of Norfolk was better done , and the ships were sunk at anchor . But many ...
... Navy Yard at Norfolk . The work of demolition at Harper's Ferry had to be bungled off in haste , owing to shortness of time and lack of means . The demolition of Norfolk was better done , and the ships were sunk at anchor . But many ...
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