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... Potomac . - His Plans . - Disposition of our Forces . - McClellan again at the Head of the Yankee Army . - THE BATTLE OF BOONSBORO ' .- THE CAPTURE OF HARPER'S FERRY . - Its Fruits -THE BATTLE OF SHARPSBURG . - Great Superiority of the ...
... Potomac . - His Plans . - Disposition of our Forces . - McClellan again at the Head of the Yankee Army . - THE BATTLE OF BOONSBORO ' .- THE CAPTURE OF HARPER'S FERRY . - Its Fruits -THE BATTLE OF SHARPSBURG . - Great Superiority of the ...
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... Potomac and Chesapeake , and a vague abandonment of these lines for opera- tions on the Peninsula , McClellan , who was the " Napoleon " of the Democratic party of the North , but a slow and con- temptible blunderer in the estimation of ...
... Potomac and Chesapeake , and a vague abandonment of these lines for opera- tions on the Peninsula , McClellan , who was the " Napoleon " of the Democratic party of the North , but a slow and con- temptible blunderer in the estimation of ...
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... Potomac : " There never were more grateful hearts in the same number of men than when at mid- day on the 30th of May , we stood on the opposite shore . " He had escaped with the loss of all the material and paraphernalia that constitute ...
... Potomac : " There never were more grateful hearts in the same number of men than when at mid- day on the 30th of May , we stood on the opposite shore . " He had escaped with the loss of all the material and paraphernalia that constitute ...
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... Potomac , about twelve miles east of Cum- berland . The island lies some sixty feet from the Virginia bank , which is precipitous , and directly laid with the railroad track . On the other side of the island , which was reached through ...
... Potomac , about twelve miles east of Cum- berland . The island lies some sixty feet from the Virginia bank , which is precipitous , and directly laid with the railroad track . On the other side of the island , which was reached through ...
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... Potomac in February , 1862 . It was about this time that Ashby's cavalry acquired its great renown . The Lincoln soldiers dreaded nothing so much as they did these hated troopers . Go where they THE SECOND YEAR OF THE WAR . 51.
... Potomac in February , 1862 . It was about this time that Ashby's cavalry acquired its great renown . The Lincoln soldiers dreaded nothing so much as they did these hated troopers . Go where they THE SECOND YEAR OF THE WAR . 51.
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A. P. Hill advance arms army artillery Ashby attack bank batteries Bragg bridge brigade campaign captured cavalry Chambersburg charge Chickahominy command commenced Confederacy Confederate corps D. H. Hill defeated defences division driven enemy enemy's engaged evacuated Ewell Ewell's fall back Federal fell field fight fire flank forces Fredericksburg front gunboats guns Hagerstown Harper's Ferry Hill's Hooker horse hour hundred infantry intrenchments J. E. B. Stuart Jackson James river Kentucky killed and wounded line of battle Longstreet loss Manassas Maryland McClellan ment miles military Mississippi morning movement night North Northern numbers o'clock occupied officers opened passed pieces of artillery Pope Port Hudson portion position prisoners railroad Rappahannock rear rebel regiment reinforcements repulsed retreat Richmond river road shell shot side skirmishers soldiers South Southern surrender Tennessee thousand tion town troops Turner Ashby Valley Vicksburg victory Virginia wagons Washington whole woods Yankee