The Early Life, Campaigns, and Public Services of Robert E. Lee: With a Record of the Campaigns and Heroic Deeds of His Companions in Arms |
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... effect of a surprise to Gen. Lee . - The lost opportunity of the 1st July . - Why Gen. Lee fought the next day . Temper of his army . - He assaults the enemy's centre on the 3d July . - Recoil of the Confederates . - Gen . Lee cheering ...
... effect of a surprise to Gen. Lee . - The lost opportunity of the 1st July . - Why Gen. Lee fought the next day . Temper of his army . - He assaults the enemy's centre on the 3d July . - Recoil of the Confederates . - Gen . Lee cheering ...
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... Effect of his death on the army . - His qualites as a commander . - His honour . - Anecdotes of the camp . - The society or order of " Comrades of the Southern Cross . " - The battle - flag of Cleburne's division , 688 CHAPTER LXIII ...
... Effect of his death on the army . - His qualites as a commander . - His honour . - Anecdotes of the camp . - The society or order of " Comrades of the Southern Cross . " - The battle - flag of Cleburne's division , 688 CHAPTER LXIII ...
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... effects , under Greene in the Carolinas , who declared that he was " under obligations to Lee which he never could cancel , " and , with his own hand , wrote to him : " No man in the progress of the campaign had equal merit with ...
... effects , under Greene in the Carolinas , who declared that he was " under obligations to Lee which he never could cancel , " and , with his own hand , wrote to him : " No man in the progress of the campaign had equal merit with ...
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... effect of the report of a pistol on him . Mr. Grant consented , though , as he said , ' the child had never seen a gun or pistol in his life . ' The hand of the baby was accordingly put on the lock , and pressed there quietly , until ...
... effect of the report of a pistol on him . Mr. Grant consented , though , as he said , ' the child had never seen a gun or pistol in his life . ' The hand of the baby was accordingly put on the lock , and pressed there quietly , until ...
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... effect their safety and happiness , ' was proclaimed by our fathers , and it is a right which no freeman should ever relinquish . The State of Virginia has now , the second time in her history , asserted this right , and it is the duty ...
... effect their safety and happiness , ' was proclaimed by our fathers , and it is a right which no freeman should ever relinquish . The State of Virginia has now , the second time in her history , asserted this right , and it is the duty ...
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