Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War in Three PartsU.S. Government Printing Office, 1863 - Ball's Bluff, Battle of, Va., 1861 |
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... President and his cabinet prevented them from acquiring , and to lay it before them with such recommendations and suggestions as seemed to be most imperatively demanded ; and the journal of the proceedings of your committee show that ...
... President and his cabinet prevented them from acquiring , and to lay it before them with such recommendations and suggestions as seemed to be most imperatively demanded ; and the journal of the proceedings of your committee show that ...
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... President and the War Department that the gunboats should take and destroy the rebel batteries which had then begun to make their ap- pearance upon the river , and which even then endangered the safety of vessels passing up and down the ...
... President and the War Department that the gunboats should take and destroy the rebel batteries which had then begun to make their ap- pearance upon the river , and which even then endangered the safety of vessels passing up and down the ...
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... President of the United States , on the 31st of January , 1862 , issued the following order : " President's Special War Order No. 1 . " EXECUTIVE MANSION , " Washington , January 31 , 1862 . " Ordered , That all the disposable force of ...
... President of the United States , on the 31st of January , 1862 , issued the following order : " President's Special War Order No. 1 . " EXECUTIVE MANSION , " Washington , January 31 , 1862 . " Ordered , That all the disposable force of ...
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... President that led him to relinquish his own line of operations and consent to the one proposed by General McClellan , except the result of a council of war , held in February , 1862. That council , the first , so far as your committee ...
... President that led him to relinquish his own line of operations and consent to the one proposed by General McClellan , except the result of a council of war , held in February , 1862. That council , the first , so far as your committee ...
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... President's General War Order No. 3 . " Ordered , That no change of the base of operations of the army of the Poto ... President shall hereafter give express permission . 66 That any movement aforesaid en route for a new base of ...
... President's General War Order No. 3 . " Ordered , That no change of the base of operations of the army of the Poto ... President shall hereafter give express permission . 66 That any movement aforesaid en route for a new base of ...
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