Captains of the Civil War: A Chronicle of the Blue and the GrayGood Press, 2019 M11 26 - 1152 pages "Captains of the Civil War: A Chronicle of the Blue and the Gray" by William Wood William Charles Henry Wood, was a Canadian historian, Scout leader and naturalist. This volume tells the story of the Civil War, with a focus on the leading generals and political figures of the crisis. Using his experience as a historian, Wood gives a comprehensive review of the Civil War from the perspective of a non-American looking at it from the outside. |
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... carry to the grave the most grateful recollections of your kind consideration, and your name and fame Photograph by Brady In the collection of L C Handy, Washington GENERAL ROBERT E Photograph In the collection of L C Handy, Washington.
... carry to the grave the most grateful recollections of your kind consideration, and your name and fame Photograph by Brady In the collection of L C Handy, Washington GENERAL ROBERT E Photograph In the collection of L C Handy, Washington.
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... carried out by other men, while the second was, if anything, spoiled by himself; for here, as afterwards on a vastly greater scene of action, he failed to strike home at the critical moment. Yet though he failed in arms he won by ...
... carried out by other men, while the second was, if anything, spoiled by himself; for here, as afterwards on a vastly greater scene of action, he failed to strike home at the critical moment. Yet though he failed in arms he won by ...
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... carrying out a plan that the enemy could no more shake him off than they could escape their shadows. On the second of July the first brush took place at Falling Waters, five miles south of the Potomac, where Jackson came into touch with ...
... carrying out a plan that the enemy could no more shake him off than they could escape their shadows. On the second of July the first brush took place at Falling Waters, five miles south of the Potomac, where Jackson came into touch with ...
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... carried on the war and the parasites who hindered them. Of course the two-thirds who made up the war party were not all saints or even perfect patriots. Nor was the other third composed exclusively of wanton sinners. There were, for ...
... carried on the war and the parasites who hindered them. Of course the two-thirds who made up the war party were not all saints or even perfect patriots. Nor was the other third composed exclusively of wanton sinners. There were, for ...
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... carried its rice, cotton, and tobacco crops to market and brought back made goods in return. Yankees, Britishers, and Bluenoses (as Nova Scotian craft were called) did most of the oversea transportation. Moreover, the North was vastly ...
... carried its rice, cotton, and tobacco crops to market and brought back made goods in return. Yankees, Britishers, and Bluenoses (as Nova Scotian craft were called) did most of the oversea transportation. Moreover, the North was vastly ...
Contents
CHAPTER VIII | |
CHAPTER IX | |
CHAPTER X | |
Map by W L G Joerg American Geographical Society | |
CAMPAIGNS OF 1862 | |
Map by W L G Joerg American Geographical Society | |
INDEX TABLE OF CONTENTS | |
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