 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 896 pages
...that you must reduce Fort Darling and the river batteries before you could advance on Richmond. It is by no means certain that the reduction of these...This delay might not only be fatal to the health of yoni army, but in the mean time Gen. Pope's forces would be exposed to the heavy blows of the enemy... | |
 | United States - 1884 - 1198 pages
...that you must reduce Fort Darling and the river batteries before vou could advance on Richmond. It is by no means certain that the reduction of these...of your army, but in the mean time General Pope's lorces would be exposed to the heavy blows of the enemy without the slightest hope of assistance from... | |
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It is by no means certain that the reduction of these fortifications would not require considerable time — perhaps as much as those at Yorktown. " This delay might not only be fatal to the health of your army, but in the mean time... 
