Abraham Lincoln and His Presidency, Volume 2Robert Clarke Company, 1904 |
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... passing through the Confederate line ; and when his forces and the number of Foote's gunboats were sufficient to war- rant serious thought of the matter , he conferred with the naval commander on the expediency of an attempt to take ...
... passing through the Confederate line ; and when his forces and the number of Foote's gunboats were sufficient to war- rant serious thought of the matter , he conferred with the naval commander on the expediency of an attempt to take ...
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... passed . The Army of the Potomac , still in extemporized winter quarters , num- bered on the 1st of February , 222 , 196 - present for duty , 190,806 . This force included the greater part of the regular army , and volunteers who had ...
... passed . The Army of the Potomac , still in extemporized winter quarters , num- bered on the 1st of February , 222 , 196 - present for duty , 190,806 . This force included the greater part of the regular army , and volunteers who had ...
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... passed without further visible sign of an intended ad- vance . The President sent for the General on the 8th of March - the day of Curtis's victory at Pea Ridge , in Arkansas . At this interview Lincoln indicated that he was as averse ...
... passed without further visible sign of an intended ad- vance . The President sent for the General on the 8th of March - the day of Curtis's victory at Pea Ridge , in Arkansas . At this interview Lincoln indicated that he was as averse ...
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... passed unrecognized . Already the grand army , which had come so far to attack , was acting on the defensive . One wing whose corps commanders their chief had bluntly disparaged in a letter to the President directly after the battle of ...
... passed unrecognized . Already the grand army , which had come so far to attack , was acting on the defensive . One wing whose corps commanders their chief had bluntly disparaged in a letter to the President directly after the battle of ...
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... passed , with no sound of battle . So it was on the day after . Late on the night of the 24th the General became aroused by " a very peculiar case of desertion " ( so he termed it ) from the enemy ; the " deserter " saying that Jackson ...
... passed , with no sound of battle . So it was on the day after . Late on the night of the 24th the General became aroused by " a very peculiar case of desertion " ( so he termed it ) from the enemy ; the " deserter " saying that Jackson ...
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