The Great Rebellion: A History of the Civil War in the United States, Volumes 1-2 |
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... Movement Against Charleston - Battle of James Island — He- roism of the Eighth Michigan and Seventy - ninth ... Movements and Rumors - Rebel Plan to Destroy McClellan's Army..483 CHAPTER XXXIX . JUNE , 1862 . Proximity of our Earth Works ...
... Movement Against Charleston - Battle of James Island — He- roism of the Eighth Michigan and Seventy - ninth ... Movements and Rumors - Rebel Plan to Destroy McClellan's Army..483 CHAPTER XXXIX . JUNE , 1862 . Proximity of our Earth Works ...
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... movements , which met with no successful resistance till he had finished the work assigned him . With a definite object in view , he pushed straight forward , deterred neither by ... MOVEMENT . 93 After various successful skirmishes , he.
... movements , which met with no successful resistance till he had finished the work assigned him . With a definite object in view , he pushed straight forward , deterred neither by ... MOVEMENT . 93 After various successful skirmishes , he.
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... movement , but a diagram of the route , which had been sent after the column with dispatches , was captured by them and thus revealed the whole strategem . Pegram immediately dispatched twenty - five hundred men and three pieces of ...
... movement , but a diagram of the route , which had been sent after the column with dispatches , was captured by them and thus revealed the whole strategem . Pegram immediately dispatched twenty - five hundred men and three pieces of ...
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... movement , ordered two six pounders to the rear , and changing front , commenced falling back in a steady orderly ... movements , immediately left the road in which they stood massed , and moved to the right and left to prevent it ...
... movement , ordered two six pounders to the rear , and changing front , commenced falling back in a steady orderly ... movements , immediately left the road in which they stood massed , and moved to the right and left to prevent it ...
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... movement was determined upon . But difficulties , which none but a military commander could see , lay in the way . Regiments already formed and equipped could with . our railroad facilities be transferred with comparative ease to the ...
... movement was determined upon . But difficulties , which none but a military commander could see , lay in the way . Regiments already formed and equipped could with . our railroad facilities be transferred with comparative ease to the ...
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