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... Staff in Mexico , where he had twice won promotion for service in the field . He had been a model Superintendent at West Point and an exceedingly good officer of engineers before he left them , on promotion , for the cavalry . Very tall ...
... Staff in Mexico , where he had twice won promotion for service in the field . He had been a model Superintendent at West Point and an exceedingly good officer of engineers before he left them , on promotion , for the cavalry . Very tall ...
Page 21
... staff officers , both dressed as plainly as himself . He was not a major - general , nor even a brigadier ; just a colonel . He held no trumpeting reviews . He made no flowery speeches . He didn't even swear . The armed mob at Harper's ...
... staff officers , both dressed as plainly as himself . He was not a major - general , nor even a brigadier ; just a colonel . He held no trumpeting reviews . He made no flowery speeches . He didn't even swear . The armed mob at Harper's ...
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... staff . Armament was bad ; other munitions were worse . There would have been no chance what- ever of holding Harper's Ferry unless the Northern conglomeration had been even less like a fighting army than 22 CAPTAINS OF THE CIVIL WAR.
... staff . Armament was bad ; other munitions were worse . There would have been no chance what- ever of holding Harper's Ferry unless the Northern conglomeration had been even less like a fighting army than 22 CAPTAINS OF THE CIVIL WAR.
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... Whereupon they all threw down their arms ; and his troopers led them off . Patter- son , badly served by his very raw staff , reported Jackson's little vanguard as being precisely ten times stronger than 38 CAPTAINS OF THE CIVIL WAR.
... Whereupon they all threw down their arms ; and his troopers led them off . Patter- son , badly served by his very raw staff , reported Jackson's little vanguard as being precisely ten times stronger than 38 CAPTAINS OF THE CIVIL WAR.
Page 40
... staff , and " during the nine- teenth and twentieth the bivouacs at Centreville , almost within cannon range of the enemy , were thronged with visitors , official and unofficial , who came in carriages from Washington , were under no ...
... staff , and " during the nine- teenth and twentieth the bivouacs at Centreville , almost within cannon range of the enemy , were thronged with visitors , official and unofficial , who came in carriages from Washington , were under no ...
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