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... thousand men . The actual garrison including officers , band , and the Castle Pinckney sergeant was less than a hundred . It was , how- ever , loyal to the Union ; and its commandant , Major Robert Anderson , though born in the slave ...
... thousand men . The actual garrison including officers , band , and the Castle Pinckney sergeant was less than a hundred . It was , how- ever , loyal to the Union ; and its commandant , Major Robert Anderson , though born in the slave ...
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... the government . " Three days later the provisional Confederate Con- gress at Montgomery in Alabama passed an Army Act authorizing the enlistment of one hundred prop- thousand men for one year's service . Nine days later THE CLASH : 1861 ...
... the government . " Three days later the provisional Confederate Con- gress at Montgomery in Alabama passed an Army Act authorizing the enlistment of one hundred prop- thousand men for one year's service . Nine days later THE CLASH : 1861 ...
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William Wood. thousand men for one year's service . Nine days later again , having adopted a Constitution in the meantime , this Congress passed a Navy Act , au- thorizing the purchase or construction of ten little gunboats . In April ...
William Wood. thousand men for one year's service . Nine days later again , having adopted a Constitution in the meantime , this Congress passed a Navy Act , au- thorizing the purchase or construction of ten little gunboats . In April ...
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... thousand veteran men . On the seventeenth of April Virginia voted for secession . On the eighteenth Lee had a long confidential interview with his old chief , Winfield Scott . On the twentieth he resigned , writing pri- vately to Scott ...
... thousand veteran men . On the seventeenth of April Virginia voted for secession . On the eighteenth Lee had a long confidential interview with his old chief , Winfield Scott . On the twentieth he resigned , writing pri- vately to Scott ...
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... thousand stand of arms . Then the Virginia militia- men and volunteers streamed in , to the number of over four thousand . They were a mere conglomera- tion of semi - independent units , mostly composed of raw recruits under officers ...
... thousand stand of arms . Then the Virginia militia- men and volunteers streamed in , to the number of over four thousand . They were a mere conglomera- tion of semi - independent units , mostly composed of raw recruits under officers ...
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