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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... sent in a summons to surrender. Anderson refused. At a quarter to one the next morning the summons was repeated, as pilots had meanwhile reported a Federal vessel approaching the harbor. Anderson again refused and again admitted that he ...
... sent in a summons to surrender. Anderson refused. At a quarter to one the next morning the summons was repeated, as pilots had meanwhile reported a Federal vessel approaching the harbor. Anderson again refused and again admitted that he ...
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... sent all the surplus arms and stores across the river into Illinois, while he occupied the most commanding position near the arsenal with his own troops, thus forestalling the Confederates, under Brigadier-General D. M. Frost, who was ...
... sent all the surplus arms and stores across the river into Illinois, while he occupied the most commanding position near the arsenal with his own troops, thus forestalling the Confederates, under Brigadier-General D. M. Frost, who was ...
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... sent him flying south with only a few hundred followers left. Boonville was, in itself, a very small affair indeed. But it had immense results. Lyon had seized the best strategic point of rail and river junction on the Mississippi by ...
... sent him flying south with only a few hundred followers left. Boonville was, in itself, a very small affair indeed. But it had immense results. Lyon had seized the best strategic point of rail and river junction on the Mississippi by ...
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... sent forces from which two flying columns, three thousand strong, converged on Philippi, fifteen miles south of ... sent political chiefs, like Henry A. Wise, ex-Governor of Virginia, and John B. Floyd, the late Federal Secretary of War ...
... sent forces from which two flying columns, three thousand strong, converged on Philippi, fifteen miles south of ... sent political chiefs, like Henry A. Wise, ex-Governor of Virginia, and John B. Floyd, the late Federal Secretary of War ...
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... sent the others flying. Meanwhile Stuart, who had been reconnoitering, came upon a company of Federal infantry resting in a field. Galloping among them suddenly he shouted, "Throw down your arms or you are all dead men!" Whereupon they ...
... sent the others flying. Meanwhile Stuart, who had been reconnoitering, came upon a company of Federal infantry resting in a field. Galloping among them suddenly he shouted, "Throw down your arms or you are all dead men!" Whereupon they ...
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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