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... reached the farthest army posts in Texas . In all Louisiana the Union Gov- ernment had only forty men . These occupied the Arsenal at Baton Rouge under Major Haskins . Haskins was loyal . But when five hundred state militiamen ...
... reached the farthest army posts in Texas . In all Louisiana the Union Gov- ernment had only forty men . These occupied the Arsenal at Baton Rouge under Major Haskins . Haskins was loyal . But when five hundred state militiamen ...
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... reached Washington on the first of March . Lincoln , delivering his Inaugural on the fourth , brought the country one step nearer war by show- ing the neutrals how impossible it was to reconcile his principles as President of the whole ...
... reached Washington on the first of March . Lincoln , delivering his Inaugural on the fourth , brought the country one step nearer war by show- ing the neutrals how impossible it was to reconcile his principles as President of the whole ...
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... by Virginia for its Arsenal as well as for its command of road , rail , and water routes . The plan to raid it was arranged at Richmond on the sixteenth of April . But when the raiders reached it 20 CAPTAINS OF THE CIVIL WAR.
... by Virginia for its Arsenal as well as for its command of road , rail , and water routes . The plan to raid it was arranged at Richmond on the sixteenth of April . But when the raiders reached it 20 CAPTAINS OF THE CIVIL WAR.
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William Wood. sixteenth of April . But when the raiders reached it on the eighteenth they found it abandoned and its Arsenal in flames . The machine shops , however , were saved , as well as the metal parts of twenty thousand stand of ...
William Wood. sixteenth of April . But when the raiders reached it on the eighteenth they found it abandoned and its Arsenal in flames . The machine shops , however , were saved , as well as the metal parts of twenty thousand stand of ...
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... reached Jefferson City only to find that the Governor had decamped for Boonville , still higher up the Missouri . Here , on the seventeenth , Lyon attacked him with greatly superior numbers and skill , defeated him utterly , and sent ...
... reached Jefferson City only to find that the Governor had decamped for Boonville , still higher up the Missouri . Here , on the seventeenth , Lyon attacked him with greatly superior numbers and skill , defeated him utterly , and sent ...
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