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Page 119
... whole game , ' he wrote . ' Kentucky gone , we cannot hold Missouri , nor , as I think , Maryland . These all ... whole Mississippi valley . Around St Louis and along the rich lands on either side of the Missouri river , pro - slavery ...
... whole game , ' he wrote . ' Kentucky gone , we cannot hold Missouri , nor , as I think , Maryland . These all ... whole Mississippi valley . Around St Louis and along the rich lands on either side of the Missouri river , pro - slavery ...
Page 270
... whole strategic position . The collapse of the line at this point would expose the deep interior of the South to Northern invasion , and splinter the whole Confederacy . On the other hand , a concentrated effort here might threaten to ...
... whole strategic position . The collapse of the line at this point would expose the deep interior of the South to Northern invasion , and splinter the whole Confederacy . On the other hand , a concentrated effort here might threaten to ...
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... whole system of ideals and loyalties precluded him from the kind of broad strategic approach developed by Grant and Sherman . Lee stood for all that was best in the Confederacy , but he also shared some of its fatal flaws . There is ...
... whole system of ideals and loyalties precluded him from the kind of broad strategic approach developed by Grant and Sherman . Lee stood for all that was best in the Confederacy , but he also shared some of its fatal flaws . There is ...
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