The Civil War, Volumen3U.S. Civil War Centennial Commission, 1913 - 63 páginas A good introductory booklet surveying the eleven most popular aspects of the 1861-1865 conflict. |
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... fall : The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Govern- ment , by Jefferson Davis , President , C. S. A. , 1881 . DE TROBRIAND , REGIS : Four Years in the Army of the Potomac , 1889 . DOUBLEDAY : " Campaigns of the Civil War . " Scribners ...
... fall : The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Govern- ment , by Jefferson Davis , President , C. S. A. , 1881 . DE TROBRIAND , REGIS : Four Years in the Army of the Potomac , 1889 . DOUBLEDAY : " Campaigns of the Civil War . " Scribners ...
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... falls , the lower Miss- issippi will be open , Grand Gulf will be supplied from New Orleans , Banks will return Grant's corps with 15,000 men from his own command , and Grant will then ad- vance along the line of the Big Black River and ...
... falls , the lower Miss- issippi will be open , Grand Gulf will be supplied from New Orleans , Banks will return Grant's corps with 15,000 men from his own command , and Grant will then ad- vance along the line of the Big Black River and ...
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... fall back Fight on southern road . with heavy loss . I 36 R. , 672 . The ground in front of his position was open , and exposed to the fire of his infantry and artillery ; but on Green's right a dense thicket extended to within 200 ...
... fall back Fight on southern road . with heavy loss . I 36 R. , 672 . The ground in front of his position was open , and exposed to the fire of his infantry and artillery ; but on Green's right a dense thicket extended to within 200 ...
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... fall back on Grand Gulf , or if his line of retreat in that direction is cut off , he can strike for Haynes's Bluff , or for some point on the long line of the Walnut Hills , which are wholly unprotected by nature against an attack from ...
... fall back on Grand Gulf , or if his line of retreat in that direction is cut off , he can strike for Haynes's Bluff , or for some point on the long line of the Walnut Hills , which are wholly unprotected by nature against an attack from ...
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... falls back behind the Big Black , his reinforcements will have to make a wide circuit to join him . If he moves north to Brownsville , he can probably join his reinforcements at Livingston , or possibly at Clinton , but in that case he ...
... falls back behind the Big Black , his reinforcements will have to make a wide circuit to join him . If he moves north to Brownsville , he can probably join his reinforcements at Livingston , or possibly at Clinton , but in that case he ...
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A. J. Smith advance arrived artillery assault attack Baldwin's Banks batteries Bayou Big Black Bridge Bovina Bowen Bragg brigade Buford burg campaign Carr Cashtown cavalry Cemetery Hill Chambersburg Clinton Cockrell column command Confederate corps cross defenders directed division Doubleday drive drove Edwards Depot Emmitsburg enemy enemy's enfilade Ewell Federal fell back fight fire force front garrison Gettysburg Grand Gulf Grant Gregg ground guns Halleck Hancock Harper's Ferry Haynes's Bluff hold Hooker Hovey infantry Jackson Johnston July June left flank Little Round Top Longstreet Loring loss McClernand McPherson Meade Meade's miles Mississippi morning move numbers occupied ordered Osterhaus outflanked Peach Orchard Pemberton Pickett's Pleasonton Port Gibson Port Hudson position Potomac railroad Rappahannock ravine Raymond rear regiments reinforcements retreat Ridge right flank River Rosecrans says Seminary Ridge sent Sherman Sickles Sickles's skirmishers Stuart Tennessee trenches troops Tullahoma Vicksburg WARRENTON woods XI Corps yards
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Página 390 - When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and the like could succeed. When you got below and took...
Página 390 - My dear General : I do not remember that you and I ever met personally. I write this now as a grateful acknowledgment for the almost inestimable service you have done the country. I wish to say a word further. When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below ; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the...
Página 471 - COLONEL: The intention is to advance the infantry if the artillery has the desired effect of driving the enemy's off, or having other effect such as to warrant us in making the attack. When the moment arrives advise General Pickett, and of course advance such artillery as you can use in aiding the attack.
Página 290 - The object is to cut the enemy's communications, and to force him to attack me, as I do not consider my force sufficient to justify an attack on the enemy in position, or to attempt to cut my way to Jackson.
Página 354 - If the head of Lee's army is at Martinsburg and the tail of it on the plank road between Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, the animal must be very slim somewhere. Could you not break him ?" The Confederates under Ewell entered Pennsylvania June 22.
Página 489 - General Longstreet was delayed by a force occupying the high, rocky hills on the enemy's extreme left, from which his troops could be attacked in reverse as they advanced. His operations had been embarrassed the day previous by the same cause, and he now deemed it necessary to defend his flank and rear with the divisions of Hood and McLaws.
Página 464 - The result of this day's operations induced the belief that with proper concert of action, and with the increased support that the positions gained on the right would enable the artillery to render the assaulting columns, we should ultimately succeed, and it was accordingly determined to continue the attack.
Página 388 - If these conditions are accepted, any amount of rations you may deem necessary can be taken from the stores you now have, and also the necessary cooking utensils for preparing them.
Página 349 - Stuart's adjutant-general 3 says of this battle, that it made the Federal cavalry. Up to this time [he says] confessedly inferior to the Southern horsemen, they gained on this day that confidence in themselves and in their commanders which enabled them to contest so fiercely the subsequent battles of June, July, and October.
Página 387 - If you can't feed us, you had better surrender us, horrible as the idea is, than suffer this noble army to disgrace themselves by desertion.