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Page 481
... thousand - the exact number as well known to you as to me . After looking about two or three days you called and dis- tinctly told me that if I would add the Blenker division to the force already in the department , you would undertake ...
... thousand - the exact number as well known to you as to me . After looking about two or three days you called and dis- tinctly told me that if I would add the Blenker division to the force already in the department , you would undertake ...
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... thousand new troops , if I could have them now . If I had fifty thousand additional troops here now , I believe I could substantially close the war in two weeks . But time is everything ; and if I get fifty thousand new men in a month ...
... thousand new troops , if I could have them now . If I had fifty thousand additional troops here now , I believe I could substantially close the war in two weeks . But time is everything ; and if I get fifty thousand new men in a month ...
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... thousand . Suppose we add fifty per cent to this , for cavalry , artillery , and extra - duty men stretching as far as Richmond , making the whole force of the enemy sixty thousand . Gen. Meade , as shown by the returns , has with him ...
... thousand . Suppose we add fifty per cent to this , for cavalry , artillery , and extra - duty men stretching as far as Richmond , making the whole force of the enemy sixty thousand . Gen. Meade , as shown by the returns , has with him ...
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