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... reinforcements and supplies for Anderson , was fired on and forced to turn back . Anderson , who had expected a man - of - war , would not fire in her defense , partly because he still hoped there might yet be peace . While Charleston ...
... reinforcements and supplies for Anderson , was fired on and forced to turn back . Anderson , who had expected a man - of - war , would not fire in her defense , partly because he still hoped there might yet be peace . While Charleston ...
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... reinforcements . A new local regiment made a better " story " in the press ; and new and superfluous regiments meant new and superfluous colonels , mostly of the speech- ifying kind . So it often happened that the State authorities felt ...
... reinforcements . A new local regiment made a better " story " in the press ; and new and superfluous regiments meant new and superfluous colonels , mostly of the speech- ifying kind . So it often happened that the State authorities felt ...
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... reinforcements the garrison that had held Pensacola since the beginning of the war . These were all severe blows to the Southern cause . But they were nothing to the one which immediately followed . The idea of an attack on New Orleans ...
... reinforcements the garrison that had held Pensacola since the beginning of the war . These were all severe blows to the Southern cause . But they were nothing to the one which immediately followed . The idea of an attack on New Orleans ...
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... party . Sickness and casual- ties had reduced the ships ' companies ; so there were not even a few seamen to spare as reinforcements for these fifteen hundred soldiers , whom Butler had sent THE NAVAL WAR : 1862 107.
... party . Sickness and casual- ties had reduced the ships ' companies ; so there were not even a few seamen to spare as reinforcements for these fifteen hundred soldiers , whom Butler had sent THE NAVAL WAR : 1862 107.
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... reinforcements . He superseded General Butler and was under orders to coöperate with McClernand , Grant's second - in - command , who was to come down the Mississippi from Cairo . But the proposed meeting of the two armies never took ...
... reinforcements . He superseded General Butler and was under orders to coöperate with McClernand , Grant's second - in - command , who was to come down the Mississippi from Cairo . But the proposed meeting of the two armies never took ...
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