The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860 - '65 : Its Causes, Incidents, and Results Intended to Exhibit Especially Its Moral and Political Phases, with the Drift and Progress of American Opinion Respecting Human Slavery from 1776 to the Close of the War for the Union. II |
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... Fall of Richmond War ...... . End of the 724 Grant passive - Rebel attempt to arm Negroes -Warren's advance to the ... Falls back to Dinwiddie C. H - Lee strikes Warren heavi ly - Is successful , but finally stopped - Sheridan again ...
... Fall of Richmond War ...... . End of the 724 Grant passive - Rebel attempt to arm Negroes -Warren's advance to the ... Falls back to Dinwiddie C. H - Lee strikes Warren heavi ly - Is successful , but finally stopped - Sheridan again ...
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... fall , not down the river , but over the trackless mountains , through a des- olate , waterless waste , abandoning most of his wagons , but packing seven days ' provisions on mules , and thus giving his adversary the slip . Dragging his ...
... fall , not down the river , but over the trackless mountains , through a des- olate , waterless waste , abandoning most of his wagons , but packing seven days ' provisions on mules , and thus giving his adversary the slip . Dragging his ...
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... fall back to the next eleva- tion or turn in the road , where he would renew the dispensation of grape with like results , then con- cede another half - mile , and repeat the operation . Thus fighting and falling back , he wore out the ...
... fall back to the next eleva- tion or turn in the road , where he would renew the dispensation of grape with like results , then con- cede another half - mile , and repeat the operation . Thus fighting and falling back , he wore out the ...
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... fall back into Missouri , " and that the " total abandonment of their enter- prise of subjugation in Arkansas is the most conclusive evidence in the world that the Federals were worsted The victory at Pea Ridge was un- by Gen. Van Dorn ...
... fall back into Missouri , " and that the " total abandonment of their enter- prise of subjugation in Arkansas is the most conclusive evidence in the world that the Federals were worsted The victory at Pea Ridge was un- by Gen. Van Dorn ...
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... fall back the Indians there collected still re- to a region less wasted and exhaust - garded with just indignation the ed than that , which for many miles wrongs they had experienced , remem- surrounded the well - fought field of bering ...
... fall back the Indians there collected still re- to a region less wasted and exhaust - garded with just indignation the ed than that , which for many miles wrongs they had experienced , remem- surrounded the well - fought field of bering ...
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A. P. Hill abatis advance arms artillery assailed assault attack bank battle Bragg bridge Brig.-Gen brigade Burnside camp Capt captured cavalry charge Chattanooga command Confederate Corinth corps creek crossed D. H. Hill defenses dispatched division enemy enemy's fell fight fire flank fleet Fort Jackson Fortress Monroe Fredericksburg front Front Royal Grant gunboats guns Harper's Ferry heavy Heintzelman held Hill Hooker horses infantry intrenchments Jackson June land loss Maj.-Gen mand March McClellan McClernand ment miles military Mississippi Missouri morning moved movement nearly night officers Ohio Orleans Port position Potomac prisoners pushed railroad reached rear Rebel army Rebel batteries Rebel force rëenforced regiments repulsed retreat Richmond ridge river road Rosecrans routed says sent shell shot side sion skirmishers slaves Smith soldiers soon strong surrender Tennessee thence tion troops Union vance Vicksburg wagons Washington woods