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... troops , Southern cotton speculators bought cotton at ten or twelve cents a pound and resold it for fifty cents a pound in gold to buyers for Northern mills . They made the trade pay both ways . They delivered cotton to the enemy at a ...
... troops , Southern cotton speculators bought cotton at ten or twelve cents a pound and resold it for fifty cents a pound in gold to buyers for Northern mills . They made the trade pay both ways . They delivered cotton to the enemy at a ...
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... troops arrived unexpectedly on the squashy banks of the creek . They drove off the Confederates , but it took three days to raise the trees from the stream so the gunboats could gingerly back out . The attempts along the line of the ...
... troops arrived unexpectedly on the squashy banks of the creek . They drove off the Confederates , but it took three days to raise the trees from the stream so the gunboats could gingerly back out . The attempts along the line of the ...
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... troops against Lee's 62,000 . Grant's plans went to pieces through the incompetency of General Butler . Butler's advance up the James threw Peters- burg and Richmond into a wild state of alarm . These places had been stripped of troops ...
... troops against Lee's 62,000 . Grant's plans went to pieces through the incompetency of General Butler . Butler's advance up the James threw Peters- burg and Richmond into a wild state of alarm . These places had been stripped of troops ...
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MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FAntasies | 25 |
THE UNWILLING Soldier | 38 |
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