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... soldier but a leader born and bred . Though still unknown to public fame he was the one man to whom the most insightful leaders of both sides turned , and rightly turned ; for this was Robert Lee , Lee of Virginia , soon to become one ...
... soldier but a leader born and bred . Though still unknown to public fame he was the one man to whom the most insightful leaders of both sides turned , and rightly turned ; for this was Robert Lee , Lee of Virginia , soon to become one ...
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... soldier less . I shall resign and go to planting corn . Colonel Albert G. Brackett says : " Lee 999 was filled with sorrow at the condition of affairs , and , in a letter to me , deploring the war in which we were about to engage , made ...
... soldier less . I shall resign and go to planting corn . Colonel Albert G. Brackett says : " Lee 999 was filled with sorrow at the condition of affairs , and , in a letter to me , deploring the war in which we were about to engage , made ...
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... soldier , who commanded the little garrison of regulars at St. Louis . When Lin- coln called upon Governor Claiborne Jackson to supply Missouri's quota of three - month volunteers the Governor denounced the proposed coercion as ...
... soldier , who commanded the little garrison of regulars at St. Louis . When Lin- coln called upon Governor Claiborne Jackson to supply Missouri's quota of three - month volunteers the Governor denounced the proposed coercion as ...
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... soldiers , intrenched in mountain fastnesses fortified at their leisure . " It disastrously happened that the Union public were hungering for heroes at this particular time and that Union journalists were itching to write one up to the ...
... soldiers , intrenched in mountain fastnesses fortified at their leisure . " It disastrously happened that the Union public were hungering for heroes at this particular time and that Union journalists were itching to write one up to the ...
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... soldiers . Nor are armed mobs the same as armies . The short march to the front was both confused ) and demoralizing . No American officer had ever had the chance even of seeing , much less handling , thirty - six thousand men under ...
... soldiers . Nor are armed mobs the same as armies . The short march to the front was both confused ) and demoralizing . No American officer had ever had the chance even of seeing , much less handling , thirty - six thousand men under ...
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