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" From this it was evident to my mind that the two days' fighting had satisfied him of his inability to further maintain the contest in the open field, notwithstanding his advantage of position, and that he would wait an attack behind his works. I... "
Life and Military Career of Winfield Scott Hancock - Page 207
by John Wien Forney - 1880 - 502 pages
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The History, Civil, Political and Military, of the Southern ..., Volume 4

Orville James Victor - 1861 - 598 pages
...7th," said the General, " reconnoissances showed that the enemy had fallen behind his entrenched lines, with pickets to the front, covering a part of the battle-field. From this it was evident to my mind that the two days' fighting bad satisfied htm of his inability to further...
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Annual Reports of the War Department, Part 2

United States. War Department - 1866 - 436 pages
...the morning of the 7th reconnoissances showed that the enemy had fallen behind his intrenched lines, with pickets to the front, covering a part of the battle-field. From this it was evident to my mind that the two days' fighting had satisfied him of his inability to further...
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The Life and Campaigns of Lieut.-Gen. U. S. Grant, from His Boyhood to the ...

Phineas Camp Headley - 1866 - 794 pages
...the morning of the 7th, reconnoissances showed that the enemy had fallen behind his intrenched lines, with pickets to the front, covering a part of the battle-field. From this it was evident to my mind that the two days' fighting had satisfied him of his inability to further...
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Message from the President of the United States to the two houses of ...

1866 - 724 pages
...the morning of the 7th recounoiesances showed that the enemy had fallen behind his intrenched linee, with pickets to the front, covering a part of the battle-field. From this it wa* evident to my mind that the two days' fighting had satisfied him of his inability to further...
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The Great Rebellion: A History of the Civil War in the United States, Volume 1

J. T. Headley - 1866 - 774 pages
...the morning of the 7th reconnoissances showed that the enemy had fallen behind his intrenched lines, with pickets to the front, covering a part of the battle-field. From this it was evident to my mind that the two days' fighting had satisfied him of his inability to further...
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The Abridgment ... Containing the Annual Message of the President of the ...

United States. President - 1866 - 722 pages
...the morning of the 7th rcconnoissanccs showed that the enemy had fallen behind his intrenched line», with pickets to the front, covering a part of the battle-field. From thia it wa* evident to my mind that the two days' fighting had satisfied him of hie inability to further...
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A Memoir of the Last Year of the War for Independence, in the ..., Issue 1

Jubal Anderson Early - 1867 - 144 pages
...the morning of the 7th, reconnoissances showed that the enemy had fallen behind his entrenched lines, with pickets to the front covering a part of the battle-field. From this it was evident to my mind that the two days fighting had satisfied him of his inability to further...
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Grant as a Soldier and Statesman: Being a Succinct History of His Military ...

Edward Howland - 1868 - 670 pages
...the morning of the 7th, reconnoissances showed that the enemy had fallen behind his intrenched lines, with pickets to the front, covering a part of the battle-field. From this it was evident to my mind that the two days' fighting had satisfied him of his inability to further...
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The Life and Campaigns of General U. S. Grant: From Boyhood to His ...

Phineas Camp Headley - 1869 - 794 pages
...the morning of the 7th, reconnoissanees showed that the enemy had fallen behind his intrenched lines, with pickets to the front, covering a part of the battle-field. From this it was evident to my mind that the two days' fighting had satisfied him of his inability to further...
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History of the American Civil War: Containing the events from the ...

John William Draper - 1870 - 716 pages
...behind their inward spoitsVivania trenched lines, with pickets to the front, covCourt-home. , •* ering a part of the battle-field. From this Grant inferred...for a movement by Lee's right flank. On the night of the 7th the march for Spottsylvauia Courthouse commenced. Warren and Hancock marched by the Brock Road...
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