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Page 48
... strength- en Evans at the Bridge . As the great Federal turning movement developed against the Con- federate left these brigades followed Evans and were themselves followed by other troops , till the real battle raged not along Bull Run ...
... strength- en Evans at the Bridge . As the great Federal turning movement developed against the Con- federate left these brigades followed Evans and were themselves followed by other troops , till the real battle raged not along Bull Run ...
Page 62
... strength of the South lay in cotton and tobacco , neither of which could be turned into money with- out going north or to sea . In finance the North was overwhelmingly strong by comparison , more especially because Northern sea - power ...
... strength of the South lay in cotton and tobacco , neither of which could be turned into money with- out going north or to sea . In finance the North was overwhelmingly strong by comparison , more especially because Northern sea - power ...
Page 74
... strength , " even with the most lavish use of bounties . The number of vessels in the navy kept on grow- ing all through . Of course not nearly all of them were regular men - of - war or even fighting craft " fit to go foreign . " At ...
... strength , " even with the most lavish use of bounties . The number of vessels in the navy kept on grow- ing all through . Of course not nearly all of them were regular men - of - war or even fighting craft " fit to go foreign . " At ...
Page 76
... strength operating against each other under perfectly equal conditions except that one has to move round the circumference of a circle while the other moves to meet it along the shorter lines inside . The army moving round the circum ...
... strength operating against each other under perfectly equal conditions except that one has to move round the circumference of a circle while the other moves to meet it along the shorter lines inside . The army moving round the circum ...
Page 81
... strength in battle unless it had left the North with fully twice as many . Conscription came a year later ( 1863 ) in the North than in the South and was vitiated by a sub- stitution clause . The fact that a man could buy himself out of ...
... strength in battle unless it had left the North with fully twice as many . Conscription came a year later ( 1863 ) in the North than in the South and was vitiated by a sub- stitution clause . The fact that a man could buy himself out of ...
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