The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'65; Its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to Exhibit Expecially Its Moral and Political Phases, with the Drift and Progress of American Opinion Respecting Human Slavery, from 1776 to the Close of the War for the Union, Volume 2O. D. Case, 1867 - Slavery |
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... Army of the Potomac under Burn- side and Hooker - Fredericksburg --Chancellorsville .... Gen. Burnside in command in Virginia - Crosses the Rappahannock - Attacks Lee's Army , strongly posted on the Southern Heights - Is repulsed with ...
... Army of the Potomac under Burn- side and Hooker - Fredericksburg --Chancellorsville .... Gen. Burnside in command in Virginia - Crosses the Rappahannock - Attacks Lee's Army , strongly posted on the Southern Heights - Is repulsed with ...
Page 52
... Army , " says : " The army was not far from 60,000 strong , after Gen. George B. Crittenden's forces were added to it at Murfreesboro ' . The season of the year was the worst possible in that latitude . Rain fell - sometimes sleet ...
... Army , " says : " The army was not far from 60,000 strong , after Gen. George B. Crittenden's forces were added to it at Murfreesboro ' . The season of the year was the worst possible in that latitude . Rain fell - sometimes sleet ...
Page 60
... army , so care- lessly encamped just before him on the hither bank of the Tennessee . Having a spy in nearly every dwell- ing in southern Tennessee , he was doubtless aware that the command of that army had just been turned over by Gen ...
... army , so care- lessly encamped just before him on the hither bank of the Tennessee . Having a spy in nearly every dwell- ing in southern Tennessee , he was doubtless aware that the command of that army had just been turned over by Gen ...
Page 69
... army was retreating , unpur- sued , on Corinth . " Gen. Sherman , with two brigades and the cavalry , went out a few miles next morning on the Corinth road , and had a smart skirmish with a small Rebel force , mainly of cavalry , which ...
... army was retreating , unpur- sued , on Corinth . " Gen. Sherman , with two brigades and the cavalry , went out a few miles next morning on the Corinth road , and had a smart skirmish with a small Rebel force , mainly of cavalry , which ...
Page 71
... army had been es An Impressed New - Yorker , " writing of the retreat from this Rebel victory , says : " I made a detour from the road on which the army was retreating , that I might travel faster and get ahead of the main body . In ...
... army had been es An Impressed New - Yorker , " writing of the retreat from this Rebel victory , says : " I made a detour from the road on which the army was retreating , that I might travel faster and get ahead of the main body . In ...
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