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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Page 42
... thing a certain thing - and he preferred to wait to make this attack on the right , until these new troops came . " Question . And that delay gave the enemy an opportunity to escape ? " Answer . I think it did . " On the night of the ...
... thing a certain thing - and he preferred to wait to make this attack on the right , until these new troops came . " Question . And that delay gave the enemy an opportunity to escape ? " Answer . I think it did . " On the night of the ...
Page 58
... thing indirectly than it was to do it directly , he qualified his previous assertion by saying that his object was to inform the President of what he considered to be the condition of the army , in the hope that the President would make ...
... thing indirectly than it was to do it directly , he qualified his previous assertion by saying that his object was to inform the President of what he considered to be the condition of the army , in the hope that the President would make ...
Page 114
... thing as turning the enemy's intrenchments , or batte- ries , in your judgment ? rear . Answer . I think that if an attack was made on Leesburg they would fall back from Leesburg on Manassas . And to turn that flank successfully there ...
... thing as turning the enemy's intrenchments , or batte- ries , in your judgment ? rear . Answer . I think that if an attack was made on Leesburg they would fall back from Leesburg on Manassas . And to turn that flank successfully there ...
Page 116
... thing I do not know about , and that is , whether the amount of transportation is sufficient to move the army on . A great deal depends upon that . Question . What I want to know is this : with their present advancement in discipline ...
... thing I do not know about , and that is , whether the amount of transportation is sufficient to move the army on . A great deal depends upon that . Question . What I want to know is this : with their present advancement in discipline ...
Page 118
... thing . I think 150,000 or 160,000 men are as many as one man can get along with , and they should be divided into different corps to afford facilities to move them . Question . What are the condition of the roads now ? Answer . They ...
... thing . I think 150,000 or 160,000 men are as many as one man can get along with , and they should be divided into different corps to afford facilities to move them . Question . What are the condition of the roads now ? Answer . They ...
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