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... History at Yale . WILLIAM WOOD , Late Colonel commanding 8th Royal Rifles , and Officer - in - charge , Canadian Special Mission Overseas . QUEBEC , April 12 , 1921 . CONTENTS I THE CLASH : 1861 II . THE COMBATANTS ix.
... History at Yale . WILLIAM WOOD , Late Colonel commanding 8th Royal Rifles , and Officer - in - charge , Canadian Special Mission Overseas . QUEBEC , April 12 , 1921 . CONTENTS I THE CLASH : 1861 II . THE COMBATANTS ix.
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... officers , band , and the Castle Pinckney sergeant was less than a hundred . It was , how- ever , loyal to the Union ; and its commandant , Major Robert Anderson , though born in the slave- owning State of Kentucky , was determined to ...
... officers , band , and the Castle Pinckney sergeant was less than a hundred . It was , how- ever , loyal to the Union ; and its commandant , Major Robert Anderson , though born in the slave- owning State of Kentucky , was determined to ...
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... 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 in which I have spent the best and happiest years of my life , the ...
... 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 in which I have spent the best and happiest years of my life , the ...
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... officer , the future Confederate General Bragg , per- suaded him that the Union was really at an end , to all intents and purposes , and when he found no orders , no support , and not even any guidance from the Government at Washington ...
... officer , the future Confederate General Bragg , per- suaded him that the Union was really at an end , to all intents and purposes , and when he found no orders , no support , and not even any guidance from the Government at Washington ...
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... officer of engineers before he left them , on promotion , for the cavalry . Very tall and handsome , magnificently fit in body and in mind , genial but of commanding presence , this flower of Southern chivalry was not only every inch a ...
... officer of engineers before he left them , on promotion , for the cavalry . Very tall and handsome , magnificently fit in body and in mind , genial but of commanding presence , this flower of Southern chivalry was not only every inch a ...
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