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... Siege Operations . Confidence in Richmond . - Johnston's Secret Anticipation of the Fall of Vicksburg .-- His Alleged Inability to Avert it . -Critical Condition of the Confederate Armies in Numbers.- Secret Correspondence of Richmond ...
... Siege Operations . Confidence in Richmond . - Johnston's Secret Anticipation of the Fall of Vicksburg .-- His Alleged Inability to Avert it . -Critical Condition of the Confederate Armies in Numbers.- Secret Correspondence of Richmond ...
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... siege . In Richmond , the garish story of the newspapers pre- pared the public mind for a great victory . There was the re- newed and feverish anticipation of an early peace . The elated public of the Confederate capital little imagined ...
... siege . In Richmond , the garish story of the newspapers pre- pared the public mind for a great victory . There was the re- newed and feverish anticipation of an early peace . The elated public of the Confederate capital little imagined ...
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... Siege Operations . Confidence in Richmond . - Johnston's Secret Anticipation of the Fall of Vicksburg . His Alleged Inability to Avert it . -Critical Condition of the Confederate Armies in Numbers.- Secret Correspondence of Richmond ...
... Siege Operations . Confidence in Richmond . - Johnston's Secret Anticipation of the Fall of Vicksburg . His Alleged Inability to Avert it . -Critical Condition of the Confederate Armies in Numbers.- Secret Correspondence of Richmond ...
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... siege : exhausting labors , scant rations , a melancholy isolation , and the distress of being entirely cut off from their homes and friends . The siege was established by the enemy under circumstances of peculiar and extraordinary ...
... siege : exhausting labors , scant rations , a melancholy isolation , and the distress of being entirely cut off from their homes and friends . The siege was established by the enemy under circumstances of peculiar and extraordinary ...
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... siege . The fact is , that at no time after the disaster referred to did General Johnston have at his disposal half the troops necessary to risk an assault on Grant . After the evac- uation of Jackson he had retired to Canton , and the ...
... siege . The fact is , that at no time after the disaster referred to did General Johnston have at his disposal half the troops necessary to risk an assault on Grant . After the evac- uation of Jackson he had retired to Canton , and the ...
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