Captains of the Civil War: A Chronicle of the Blue and the GrayYale University Press, 1921 - 424 pages This volume tells the story of the Civil War, with a focus on the leading generals and political figures of the crisis. |
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... number of over four thousand . They were a mere conglomera- tion of semi - independent units , mostly composed of raw recruits under officers who themselves knew next to nothing . As usual with such fledgling troops there was no end to ...
... number of over four thousand . They were a mere conglomera- tion of semi - independent units , mostly composed of raw recruits under officers who themselves knew next to nothing . As usual with such fledgling troops there was no end to ...
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... numbers and skill , defeated him utterly , and sent him flying south with only a few hundred followers left . Boonville was , in itself , a very small affair indeed . But it had immense re- sults . Lyon had seized the best strategic ...
... numbers and skill , defeated him utterly , and sent him flying south with only a few hundred followers left . Boonville was , in itself , a very small affair indeed . But it had immense re- sults . Lyon had seized the best strategic ...
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... numbers and skill , defeated him utterly , and sent him flying south with only a few hundred followers left . Boonville was , in itself , a very small affair indeed . But it had immense re- sults . Lyon had seized the best strategic ...
... numbers and skill , defeated him utterly , and sent him flying south with only a few hundred followers left . Boonville was , in itself , a very small affair indeed . But it had immense re- sults . Lyon had seized the best strategic ...
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... numbers and a great preponderance in guns , soon drove the Confederates off the Matthews Hill . As the Confederates recrossed Young's Branch and climbed the Henry Hill the regular artillery of the Federals limbered up smartly , galloped ...
... numbers and a great preponderance in guns , soon drove the Confederates off the Matthews Hill . As the Confederates recrossed Young's Branch and climbed the Henry Hill the regular artillery of the Federals limbered up smartly , galloped ...
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... numbers ; and they enjoyed the priceless advantage of having some regulars among them . If the Federal division at the Stone Bridge had only pushed home its attack at this favorable moment the Confederates must have been defeated . But ...
... numbers ; and they enjoyed the priceless advantage of having some regulars among them . If the Federal division at the Stone Bridge had only pushed home its attack at this favorable moment the Confederates must have been defeated . But ...
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Page 170 - I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the army and the government needed a dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship.
Page 170 - Burnside's command of the army you have taken counsel of your ambition and thwarted him as much as you could, in which you did a great wrong to the country and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer.
Page 169 - I have placed you at the head of the Army of the Potomac. Of course I have done this upon what appear to me to be sufficient reasons, and yet I think it best for you to know that there are some things in regard to which I am not quite satisfied with you.
Page 125 - This morning, as for some days past, it seems exceedingly probable that this Administration will not be reelected.
Page 126 - Dear Madam: I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle.
Page 220 - SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, December 22, 1864. To His EXCELLENCY PRESIDENT LINCOLN, WASHINGTON, DC I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton.
Page 210 - If the people raise a howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularityseeking. If they want peace, they and their relatives must stop the war.
Page 145 - Let us discard such ideas. The strongest position a soldier should desire to occupy is one from which he can most easily advance against the enemy. Let us study the probable lines of retreat of our opponents, and leave our own to take care of themselves.
Page 6 - And furthermore, as president of the Board of Supervisors, I beg you to take immediate steps to relieve me as superintendent, the moment the State determines to secede, for on no earthly account will I do any act or think any thought hostile to or in defiance of the old Government of the United States.
Page 125 - He brought out a map of Virginia on which he had evidently marked every position occupied by the Federal and Confederate armies up to that time. He pointed out on the map two streams ; which empty into the Potomac, and suggested that the army might be moved on boats and landed between the mouths of these streams. We would then have the Potomac to bring our supplies, and the tributaries would protect our flanks while we moved out. I listened respectfully, but did not suggest that the same streams...