The war with the south: a history of the late rebellion with biographical sketches of leading statesmen and distinguished naval and military commanders, etc, Volume 3Virtue & Yorston, 1867 - 738 pages |
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... fight for the privilege of plunder and oppression . You fight for your country , homes , wives , children , and the birthrights of freemen . Your Commanding - General , believing in the truth and sacredness of this cause , has cast his ...
... fight for the privilege of plunder and oppression . You fight for your country , homes , wives , children , and the birthrights of freemen . Your Commanding - General , believing in the truth and sacredness of this cause , has cast his ...
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... fight until their army was safe , and then galloped off . In the afternoon General Banks joined General Grover , and in the evening , after building his bridge and recrossing the river , Colonel Gooding rejoined General Emory , and all ...
... fight until their army was safe , and then galloped off . In the afternoon General Banks joined General Grover , and in the evening , after building his bridge and recrossing the river , Colonel Gooding rejoined General Emory , and all ...
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... Fight with the Warrenton Batteries . - Off the Red River . - Blockading the Red River . - Communications cut off . - Bold attempts to renew them . - Adventures of a Party . - The Cruise of the Albatross on the Red River . - A Fight ...
... Fight with the Warrenton Batteries . - Off the Red River . - Blockading the Red River . - Communications cut off . - Bold attempts to renew them . - Adventures of a Party . - The Cruise of the Albatross on the Red River . - A Fight ...
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... fighting being confined entirely to the starboard side . Still the fight went on . * * * " So thick was the smoke , that we had to cease firing several times ; and , to add to the horrors of the night , it was next to impossible to tell ...
... fighting being confined entirely to the starboard side . Still the fight went on . * * * " So thick was the smoke , that we had to cease firing several times ; and , to add to the horrors of the night , it was next to impossible to tell ...
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... fight now began . companion and towed her out of range . The fight. As Admiral Farragut was thus , by his position between the batteries of Vicksburg , Warrenton , and Grand Gulf above , and those of Port Hudson below , cut off from his ...
... fight now began . companion and towed her out of range . The fight. As Admiral Farragut was thus , by his position between the batteries of Vicksburg , Warrenton , and Grand Gulf above , and those of Port Hudson below , cut off from his ...
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