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Page 105
... defenses of the Tennessee River and the Appalachian Mountains as the Grand Gulf manoeuver had turned the Mississippi River and the Vicksburg defenses . Grant had slipped past the enemy defenses into a sensitive spot in the Vicksburg cam ...
... defenses of the Tennessee River and the Appalachian Mountains as the Grand Gulf manoeuver had turned the Mississippi River and the Vicksburg defenses . Grant had slipped past the enemy defenses into a sensitive spot in the Vicksburg cam ...
Page 115
... defenses of Lookout Mountain . Thomas ' troops were shut in between their own trenches and the river on both flanks . The only attacks possible from these lines were simple assaults , which could not hope to succeed . Grant , therefore ...
... defenses of Lookout Mountain . Thomas ' troops were shut in between their own trenches and the river on both flanks . The only attacks possible from these lines were simple assaults , which could not hope to succeed . Grant , therefore ...
Page 193
... defenses . Meade had five times that number . By extending his left flank he could have passed around the defenders or compelled them to spread out so thin that they could not have exerted a heavy enough fire to stop his attacks ...
... defenses . Meade had five times that number . By extending his left flank he could have passed around the defenders or compelled them to spread out so thin that they could not have exerted a heavy enough fire to stop his attacks ...
Contents
PETERSBURG | 181 |
THE VALLEY CAMPAIGN | 205 |
FROM CHATTANOOGA TO NASHVILLE and SavanNAH | 219 |
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