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Page 267
... McClernand should go west , raise a quite new army in Illinois , Indiana , and Iowa , and , with the gunboats supporting , take Vicks- burg from the front , while the forces defending it were fac- ing Grant in the back country . McClernand ...
... McClernand should go west , raise a quite new army in Illinois , Indiana , and Iowa , and , with the gunboats supporting , take Vicks- burg from the front , while the forces defending it were fac- ing Grant in the back country . McClernand ...
Page 269
... McClernand was steaming down the river with only a few regiments of the troops assigned to him . The melancholy of this situation was somewhat palliated as the news began to come in from Rosecrans that after two days of terrific battle ...
... McClernand was steaming down the river with only a few regiments of the troops assigned to him . The melancholy of this situation was somewhat palliated as the news began to come in from Rosecrans that after two days of terrific battle ...
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... McClernand had been one of his high hopes . Stanton only snorted over it and turned to the reports - hourly growing more precise- about Lee's advance and the size of his army . Hooker flashed briefly into the city , demanded to be ...
... McClernand had been one of his high hopes . Stanton only snorted over it and turned to the reports - hourly growing more precise- about Lee's advance and the size of his army . Hooker flashed briefly into the city , demanded to be ...
Contents
Mr Attorney Stanton | 16 |
The Wider Stage | 33 |
The Controlling Cases | 52 |
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