Southern History of the War: The first year of the warC.B. Richardson, 1863 - Confederate States of America |
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... brilliant or elaborate book ; but he does claim to have composed , without seeking after literary ornaments , or taxing his style with intellectual refinements , a compact , faith ful , and independent popular narrative of the events of ...
... brilliant or elaborate book ; but he does claim to have composed , without seeking after literary ornaments , or taxing his style with intellectual refinements , a compact , faith ful , and independent popular narrative of the events of ...
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... brilliant feat , and entitled , in the newspaper extras that announced his arrival , as " another Fort Moultrie coup de main " -referring to the fraud by which the government had stolen a march by midnight to the supposed impregnable ...
... brilliant feat , and entitled , in the newspaper extras that announced his arrival , as " another Fort Moultrie coup de main " -referring to the fraud by which the government had stolen a march by midnight to the supposed impregnable ...
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... brilliance of the scene , the Pawnee with the Cumberland in tow , stole like a guilty thing through the harbor , fleeing from the destruction they had been sent to accomplish . The Lincoln government had reason to be exasperated to ...
... brilliance of the scene , the Pawnee with the Cumberland in tow , stole like a guilty thing through the harbor , fleeing from the destruction they had been sent to accomplish . The Lincoln government had reason to be exasperated to ...
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... ordered to retake it . The charge of the North Carolina infantry , on this occasion , was the most brilliant incident of the day . They advanced calmly and coolly in the face of a sheet of artillery THE FIRST YEAR OF THE WAR . 77.
... ordered to retake it . The charge of the North Carolina infantry , on this occasion , was the most brilliant incident of the day . They advanced calmly and coolly in the face of a sheet of artillery THE FIRST YEAR OF THE WAR . 77.
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... brilliant exploits which afterwards made the Missouri campaign one of the most brilliant episodes of the war . It had gone far to retrieve the fortunes of an empire that was here- after to be added to the Southern Confederacy , and ...
... brilliant exploits which afterwards made the Missouri campaign one of the most brilliant episodes of the war . It had gone far to retrieve the fortunes of an empire that was here- after to be added to the Southern Confederacy , and ...
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