Pictorial History of the Civil War in the United States of America, Volume 2D. McKay, 1866 - United States |
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... officer restrained his own impatience and the folly and rashness of the Creole ; and the perilous movement was ... officers declare that , by his interference in details , he was a Or to blend the shattered waves that lash The feet ...
... officer restrained his own impatience and the folly and rashness of the Creole ; and the perilous movement was ... officers declare that , by his interference in details , he was a Or to blend the shattered waves that lash The feet ...
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... officers of all the volunteer regiments , and dismiss all incompetents . By this process no less than three hundred officers were compelled to leave the service in the course of a few months . Having laid the moral foundations for an ...
... officers of all the volunteer regiments , and dismiss all incompetents . By this process no less than three hundred officers were compelled to leave the service in the course of a few months . Having laid the moral foundations for an ...
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... officers , and a large number of private soldiers . It was at about ten o'clock , on a moonlit evening , when they reach- ed the city , where an im- mense crowd had assem- bled . Amid the scoffs and sometimes curses of the populace ...
... officers , and a large number of private soldiers . It was at about ten o'clock , on a moonlit evening , when they reach- ed the city , where an im- mense crowd had assem- bled . Amid the scoffs and sometimes curses of the populace ...
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... officers were closely confined as hostages , and treated worse than the pirates were . The latter , as we have observed , were , or the sake of humanity , treated as prisoners of war , and in due time the hostages . were exchanged . On ...
... officers were closely confined as hostages , and treated worse than the pirates were . The latter , as we have observed , were , or the sake of humanity , treated as prisoners of war , and in due time the hostages . were exchanged . On ...
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... officers , civil and mili- tary , almost unbounded license was exercised , and no man's life , liberty , and property were secure from violence . 2 In districts of the Confederacy , such as East Tennessee , where the blight of slavery ...
... officers , civil and mili- tary , almost unbounded license was exercised , and no man's life , liberty , and property were secure from violence . 2 In districts of the Confederacy , such as East Tennessee , where the blight of slavery ...
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Albemarle Sound arms army arrived artillery attack Banks battery battle Beauregard brigade British Buell camp cannon Captain capture cavalry Colonel command composed Confede Confederates conspirators Corinth Creek Cumberland Cumberland River defense dispatch division Donelson enemy expedition Ferry fight fire flag flank fled fleet flotilla force Fort Donelson Fort Henry Fort Jackson forward Fremont front Government Grant gun-boats Halleck head-quarters heavy guns Heintzelman Henry hundred infantry insurgents intrenchments Island Number Jackson John Johnston Kentucky killed land large number latter Leesburg Lieutenant Manassas McClellan McClernand ment miles military Mississippi Missouri morning moved movement Nashville National troops Navy night o'clock officers Ohio Orleans Pope position Potomac prisoners railway re-enforcements rear regiment Richmond river road Roanoke Roanoke Island Secretary Secretary of War sent shell shore shot Sigel soldiers soon steamer surrender Tennessee Tennessee River thousand Union vessels victory Virginia Washington William wounded