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" It is with heartfelt satisfaction, that the Commanding General announces to the army, that the operations of the last three days have determined that our enemy must either ingloriously fly, or come out from behind his defences, and give us battle on our... "
The Great Rebellion: A History of the Civil War in the United States - Page 173
by J. T. Headley - 1866 - 508 pages
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McClure's Magazine, Volume 29

Periodicals - 1907 - 992 pages
...last three days have determined -that our enemy must ingloriously fly, or come out from behind his defenses and give us battle on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits him; — the operations of the Fifth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Corps have been a succession of splendid achievements."...
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The Reminiscences of Carl Schurz: 1852-1863

Carl Schurz - Germans - 1907 - 534 pages
...the last three days have determined that our enemy must ingloriously fly, or come out from behind his defenses and give us battle on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits him — the operations of the Fifth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Corps have been a succession of splendid achievements."...
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The Reminiscences of Carl Schurz: 1852-1863

Carl Schurz - Germans - 1907 - 534 pages
...the last three days have determined that our enemy must ingloriously fly, or come out from behind his defenses and give us battle on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits him — the operations of the Fifth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Corps have been a succession of splendid achievements."...
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Watson's Jeffersonian Magazine, Volume 5

Thomas Edward Watson - 1910 - 628 pages
...Potomac in General Orders, telling it ''The enemy must ingloriously fly or come out from behind his defenses and give us battle on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits him." While "there's nothing so certain as uncertainty," General Hooker could not, or would not, take such...
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The Reminiscences of Carl Schurz: 1852-1863

Carl Schurz - Germans - 1907 - 536 pages
...the last three days have determined that our enemy must ingloriously fly, or come out from behind his defenses and give us battle on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits him — the operations of the Fifth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Corps have been a succession of splendid achievements."...
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Robert E. Lee

Philip Alexander Bruce - United States - 1907 - 394 pages
...enemy," he announced in a proclamation, " must either ingloriously fly, or come out from behind his defenses and give us battle on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits him." And in private conversation, he declared with confidence that "the Confederate army was the legitimate...
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pt. 2. The Civil War

Oliver Otis Howard - United States - 1907 - 652 pages
...three days have determined that our enemy must either ingloriously fly, or come out from behind his defenses and give us battle on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits him. The operations of the Fifth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Corps have been a succession of splendid achievements....
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Military Memoirs of a Confederate: A Critical Narrative

Edward Porter Alexander - Biography & Autobiography - 1907 - 674 pages
...announcing that now — " the enemy must either ingloriously fly, or come out from behind his defences, and give us battle on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits him." And, indeed, if a general may ever be justified in enumerating his poultry while the process of incubation...
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The Confederate Cause and Conduct in the War Between the States: As Set ...

Hunter McGuire, George Llewellyn Christian, United Confederate Veterans. Virginia Division - Confederate States of America - 1907 - 270 pages
...Hooker's message : *' The enemy must either ingloriously fly, or come out from behind his defences and give us battle on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits him." Contrast the two. Jackson's — modest, confident, hopeful — relying on his cause and his God. Hooker's...
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Under the Red Patch: Story of the Sixty Third Regiment, Pennsylvania ...

1908 - 524 pages
...the last three days has determined that our enemy must ingloriously fly or come out from behind his defenses and give us battle on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits him." The movement of our corps to the left had been a feint, and at 4 o'clock pm we were again en route...
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