The Great Rebellion: A History of the Civil War in the United States, Volume 2 |
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... rest - powerless to do mischief . This result had been planned by McClellan , for he needed the time it gave him , to get his immense trains across the swamp , before his army began to move . Tangled up between his corps , it would ...
... rest - powerless to do mischief . This result had been planned by McClellan , for he needed the time it gave him , to get his immense trains across the swamp , before his army began to move . Tangled up between his corps , it would ...
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... rest to that imperilled army . Early in the morning McClellan broke up his head - quarters at Savage Station , and moved across the swamp , to examine the ground beyond , for the disposition of the corps , and make sure his ...
... rest to that imperilled army . Early in the morning McClellan broke up his head - quarters at Savage Station , and moved across the swamp , to examine the ground beyond , for the disposition of the corps , and make sure his ...
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... rest , scarcely time to snatch a morsel of food , bleeding at every step , and leaving its dead and wounded on almost every foot of ground it had traversed , this gallant army had fought its way triumphantly out of the very jaws of ...
... rest , scarcely time to snatch a morsel of food , bleeding at every step , and leaving its dead and wounded on almost every foot of ground it had traversed , this gallant army had fought its way triumphantly out of the very jaws of ...
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... RESTS - EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION SUSPENSION OF HABEAS CORPUS - ITS EFFECTS - ITS DANGERS . { THE was HE terror inspired at Washington , by the unfortunate turn of events , was not generally known to the country . Lee was throwing his ...
... RESTS - EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION SUSPENSION OF HABEAS CORPUS - ITS EFFECTS - ITS DANGERS . { THE was HE terror inspired at Washington , by the unfortunate turn of events , was not generally known to the country . Lee was throwing his ...
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... were abandoned , as they always must be , and the operations in the field , left to those who understood their business . Thus , the next year , the public saw , without one 1 THE ARMY RESTS . 877 word of complaint ,
... were abandoned , as they always must be , and the operations in the field , left to those who understood their business . Thus , the next year , the public saw , without one 1 THE ARMY RESTS . 877 word of complaint ,
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A. P. Hill advance army artillery assault attack Banks batteries BATTLE OF ANTIETAM BATTLE OF GAINES Bragg brave bridge brigade Buell Burnside campaign cannon captured cavalry charge Chattanooga close Colonel columns command commenced compelled Corinth Corps crossed Cumberland Gap dark dashed desperate division enemy enemy's fall back fell field fierce fight fire flank Fort Wagner forward Fredericksburg front gallant Grant gunboats guns Halleck heavy heights hill Hooker horses hundred Jackson James River latter Lee's line of battle McClellan McClernand meantime miles military Mississippi Morgan morning mountain moved movement Murfreesboro night numbers o'clock opened Porter position Potomac pressed prisoners pushed railroad Rappahannock reached rear rebellion regiment retreat Richmond road Rosecrans Savage Station sent Sherman shot and shell shout side siege soldiers stood storm stream struggle swept Tennessee thousand thunder troops Valley Vicksburg victory White Oak Swamp whole woods wounded