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... rest was all just sheer hard work . He kept his own counsel so carefully that no one knew anything about what he would do if the enemy advanced . Even the officers of outposts were forbidden to notice or mention his arrival or departure ...
... rest was all just sheer hard work . He kept his own counsel so carefully that no one knew anything about what he would do if the enemy advanced . Even the officers of outposts were forbidden to notice or mention his arrival or departure ...
Page 38
... rest- ing in a field . Galloping among them suddenly he shouted , " Throw down your arms or you are all dead men ! " Whereupon they all threw down their arms ; and his troopers led them off . Patter- son , badly served by his very raw ...
... rest- ing in a field . Galloping among them suddenly he shouted , " Throw down your arms or you are all dead men ! " Whereupon they all threw down their arms ; and his troopers led them off . Patter- son , badly served by his very raw ...
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... rest had foreseen ; because an earlier concentration at Bull Run would have drawn the two superior Federal forces together on the selfsame spot . There was still some risk about giving Patterson the slip . True , his three - month ...
... rest had foreseen ; because an earlier concentration at Bull Run would have drawn the two superior Federal forces together on the selfsame spot . There was still some risk about giving Patterson the slip . True , his three - month ...
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... rest by straggling and by the way in which the battery and battalion already mentioned had " claimed their discharge " at Blackburn's Ford . Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth , while , sorely against his will , the Federals were ...
... rest by straggling and by the way in which the battery and battalion already mentioned had " claimed their discharge " at Blackburn's Ford . Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth , while , sorely against his will , the Federals were ...
Page 47
... to Beauregard , posted some men to hold the Stone Bridge , and marched the rest to crown the Matthews Hill , fac- ing Sudley Springs a mile away . Meanwhile four - of " Joe " Johnston's five Shenandoah brigades Bee's THE CLASH : 1861 47.
... to Beauregard , posted some men to hold the Stone Bridge , and marched the rest to crown the Matthews Hill , fac- ing Sudley Springs a mile away . Meanwhile four - of " Joe " Johnston's five Shenandoah brigades Bee's THE CLASH : 1861 47.
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