Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac: A Critical History of Operations in Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania, from the Commencement to the Close of the War, 1861-5University Publishing Company, 1866 - 640 頁 |
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... defensive has its operations facilitated , while an army assuming the offensive has its operations rendered difficult , from the fact that the water - shed being towards the coast , all the rivers cross any line of manoeuvre against ...
... defensive has its operations facilitated , while an army assuming the offensive has its operations rendered difficult , from the fact that the water - shed being towards the coast , all the rivers cross any line of manoeuvre against ...
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... defensive . The abun- dance of wood afforded such facility for the construction of breastworks and abatis , that , during all the late years of the Virginia campaigns , actions were invariably waged behind and about hastily improvised ...
... defensive . The abun- dance of wood afforded such facility for the construction of breastworks and abatis , that , during all the late years of the Virginia campaigns , actions were invariably waged behind and about hastily improvised ...
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... defensive line as regards Washington ; and experience has shown that an army operating by that line , and having also to cover Washington , may readily be dislodged from it and forced to attempt to regain the Orange and Alexandria line ...
... defensive line as regards Washington ; and experience has shown that an army operating by that line , and having also to cover Washington , may readily be dislodged from it and forced to attempt to regain the Orange and Alexandria line ...
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... defensive with offensive returns , " attempted , in two memorable campaigns , an operation of invasion ; but the decisive failure that attended both , may stand as an exemplar of the difficulties that constantly beset the Union army ...
... defensive with offensive returns , " attempted , in two memorable campaigns , an operation of invasion ; but the decisive failure that attended both , may stand as an exemplar of the difficulties that constantly beset the Union army ...
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... defensive , in Virginia , should be under the chief control and direction of the President of the Confederate States , " Confederate troops , from South Carolina and the States of the Gulf , were rapidly thrown forward into Virginia ...
... defensive , in Virginia , should be under the chief control and direction of the President of the Confederate States , " Confederate troops , from South Carolina and the States of the Gulf , were rapidly thrown forward into Virginia ...
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A. P. Hill action advance Antietam Army of Northern artillery assailed assault attack bank batteries battle of Chancellorsville Bridge brigade Bull Run Burnside Burnside's campaign cavalry Centreville Chambersburg Chancellorsville Chickahominy Colonel column command Confederate Courthouse crest crossed Culpepper D. H. Hill defensive directed division enemy enemy's Ewell Ewell's fire Ford forward Franklin Fredericksburg front Gettysburg guns Hancock Harper's Ferry heights Heintzelman held Hill Hill's Hooker hundred infantry Jackson James River Johnston junction Lee's Longstreet Manassas Maryland Maryland Heights McClellan McDowell McLaws Meade miles military morning move movement night Northern Virginia o'clock operations Peninsula plankroad Pope Porter position Potomac Railroad Rapidan Rappahannock re-enforcements reached rear regiments Report retreat Richmond ridge road Second Corps Sedgwick Shenandoah Shenandoah Valley Sickles side Sixth Corps Sumner thousand tion troops turnpike Union army Union force Valley Warren Warrenton Warrenton turnpike Washington York River Yorktown
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第 614 頁 - April 7, 1865 GENERAL : — I have received your note of this date. Though not entertaining the opinion you express on the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia...
第 369 頁 - tis true, By force and fortune's right he stands; By fortune which is in God's hands, And strength which yet shall spring in you. This voice did on my spirit fall, Peschiera, when thy bridge I crost, ' 'Tis better to have fought and lost, Than never to have fought at all.
第 86 頁 - That the 22d day of February, 1862, be the day for a general movement of the land and naval forces of the United States against the insurgent forces.
第 618 頁 - I propose to receive the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia on the following terms, to wit: Rolls of all the officers and men to be made in duplicate. One copy to be given to an officer designated by me, the other to be retained by such officer or officers as you may designate. The officers to give their individual paroles not to take up arms against the...
第 314 頁 - In one word, I would not take any risk of being entangled upon the river, like an ox jumped half over a fence and liable to be torn by dogs front and rear, without a fair chance to gore one way or kick the other.
第 616 頁 - GENERAL : I received at a late hour your note of to-day. In mine of yesterday I did not intend to propose the surrender of the army of Northern Virginia, but to ask the terms of your proposition.
第 87 頁 - That the heads of departments and especially the Secretaries of War and of the Navy, with all their subordinates, and the general-in-chief, with all other commanders and subordinates of land and naval forces, will severally be held to their strict and full responsibilities for prompt execution of this order.
第 616 頁 - North entertain the same feeling. The terms upon which peace can be had are well understood. By the South laying down their arms they will hasten that most desirable event, save thousands of human lives, and hundreds of millions of property not yet destroyed.
第 587 頁 - On the morning of the 31st, General Warren reported favorably to getting possession of the White Oak road, and was directed to do so. To accomplish this, he moved with one division, instead of his whole corps...
第 582 頁 - I now feel like ending the matter, if it is possible to do so, before going back. I do not want you, therefore, to cut loose and go after the enemy's roads at present. In the morning push around the enemy, if you can, and get on to his right rear.