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Page 164
... move on the enemy by February 22. Just what this meant appeared four days later , after McClellan had put his plan for a movement on Richmond via Urbanna into writing , and it had been disappointingly disapproved by the Cabinet . On ...
... move on the enemy by February 22. Just what this meant appeared four days later , after McClellan had put his plan for a movement on Richmond via Urbanna into writing , and it had been disappointingly disapproved by the Cabinet . On ...
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... move ; the wagons and artillery could not move in any practical sense , and this was particularly bad , since the Con- federates " evinced a determination to hold Yorktown " ( as the young General put it in his dispatch ) by opening ...
... move ; the wagons and artillery could not move in any practical sense , and this was particularly bad , since the Con- federates " evinced a determination to hold Yorktown " ( as the young General put it in his dispatch ) by opening ...
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... move , " and that he thought the proper policy was to make the defenses of Washington perfectly safe , for which purpose a couple of new corps should be mobilized . He had a report that the Confederates were mov- ing on Washington and ...
... move , " and that he thought the proper policy was to make the defenses of Washington perfectly safe , for which purpose a couple of new corps should be mobilized . He had a report that the Confederates were mov- ing on Washington and ...
Contents
Mr Attorney Stanton | 16 |
The Wider Stage | 33 |
The Controlling Cases | 52 |
Copyright | |
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