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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... roads , winding along the edges of chasms , through rugged valleys , over mountain - tops , and across the beds of streams and ... road - beds into a mixture of mud and clay impassable for artillery and baggage 58 GENERAL ROBERT EDWARD LEE .
... roads , winding along the edges of chasms , through rugged valleys , over mountain - tops , and across the beds of streams and ... road - beds into a mixture of mud and clay impassable for artillery and baggage 58 GENERAL ROBERT EDWARD LEE .
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... roads , by leaving the Central Railroad at a point forty miles west of Staunton , and penetrating the northwest ... road leading to Staun- ton , and the line of the Greenbrier River . He had now in hand an army of quite 15,000 men ...
... roads , by leaving the Central Railroad at a point forty miles west of Staunton , and penetrating the northwest ... road leading to Staun- ton , and the line of the Greenbrier River . He had now in hand an army of quite 15,000 men ...
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... road . But the preceding night the swift and skilful Jackson had reached Ashland , was within striking distance of the right wing of the Federal army , and the next day the storm of battle was to burst upon the hesitating Mc- Clellan ...
... road . But the preceding night the swift and skilful Jackson had reached Ashland , was within striking distance of the right wing of the Federal army , and the next day the storm of battle was to burst upon the hesitating Mc- Clellan ...
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... road , and masking their retreat . The position of the Confederates was maintained with but slight loss on both ... roads to Alexandria and Washington . So far , the summer campaign in Virginia had been a succession of Confederate ...
... road , and masking their retreat . The position of the Confederates was maintained with but slight loss on both ... roads to Alexandria and Washington . So far , the summer campaign in Virginia had been a succession of Confederate ...
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... road ; in the centre was D. H. Hill's division , and the right was but thinly occupied by what remained of Longstreet's corps . As the morning of the 17th of September broke , the batteries of both armies opened fire , and the battle ...
... road ; in the centre was D. H. Hill's division , and the right was but thinly occupied by what remained of Longstreet's corps . As the morning of the 17th of September broke , the batteries of both armies opened fire , and the battle ...
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