The war with the south: a history of the late rebellion with biographical sketches of leading statesmen and distinguished naval and military commanders, etc, Volume 2Virtue & Yorston, 1867 - 680 pages |
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... night , after his long day's labor on the shop - board , to his books . In 1824 , after the completion of his apprenticeship , young Johnson went to Laurens Court House , in South Caro- lina , where he worked at his trade as a ...
... night , after his long day's labor on the shop - board , to his books . In 1824 , after the completion of his apprenticeship , young Johnson went to Laurens Court House , in South Caro- lina , where he worked at his trade as a ...
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... night , with- in 800 yards on the enemy's main work , so as to command that and the river above it , and opened fire at daylight on the 13th , just thirty - four hours after they were received at Cairo . One brigade , consisting of the ...
... night , with- in 800 yards on the enemy's main work , so as to command that and the river above it , and opened fire at daylight on the 13th , just thirty - four hours after they were received at Cairo . One brigade , consisting of the ...
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... night is graphically de- scribed by a campaigner . ** " The lines of the contending armies during the night were not more than three hundred yards apart , and each party rested on its arms , and passed the long hours till dawn without ...
... night is graphically de- scribed by a campaigner . ** " The lines of the contending armies during the night were not more than three hundred yards apart , and each party rested on its arms , and passed the long hours till dawn without ...
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... night the enemy had intelligible to my ear . It reminded me planted their strongest batteries on a hill that long ago , in the Crimea , on the on their right , about two hundred feet night before the storming of the Mala- high , with a ...
... night the enemy had intelligible to my ear . It reminded me planted their strongest batteries on a hill that long ago , in the Crimea , on the on their right , about two hundred feet night before the storming of the Mala- high , with a ...
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... night he had succeeded in placing on the island a force of nearly 11,000 men , who were conveyed from the transports by small steamers and launches ; but such was the shallowness of the water , on approaching the shore , that each man ...
... night he had succeeded in placing on the island a force of nearly 11,000 men , who were conveyed from the transports by small steamers and launches ; but such was the shallowness of the water , on approaching the shore , that each man ...
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