Personal Recollections of Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil WarWerner Company, 1897 - 591 pages |
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... cavalry corps to the left of the line confronting Petersburg . The line of battle confronting the Army of Northern Virginia under General Robert E. Lee , stretched from the north side of the James River , northeast of Richmond , to the ...
... cavalry corps to the left of the line confronting Petersburg . The line of battle confronting the Army of Northern Virginia under General Robert E. Lee , stretched from the north side of the James River , northeast of Richmond , to the ...
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... cavalry command near mine , and who was well equipped with horses and a large pack of dogs . I also found much healthful exercise and recreation in hunting prairie chickens and quail over the rolling prairies of Kansas , where there was ...
... cavalry command near mine , and who was well equipped with horses and a large pack of dogs . I also found much healthful exercise and recreation in hunting prairie chickens and quail over the rolling prairies of Kansas , where there was ...
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... cavalry , undertook to capture Bent , at the same time relieving Sawyer ; but Bent got wind of the movements by his run- ners , and got away before they reached him . I then sent Sawyer through , under charge of one of my officers , on ...
... cavalry , undertook to capture Bent , at the same time relieving Sawyer ; but Bent got wind of the movements by his run- ners , and got away before they reached him . I then sent Sawyer through , under charge of one of my officers , on ...
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... cavalry horses which had been weakened by long marches and poor feed . We also aban- doned on Powder River about one hundred empty army wagons , remounting the cavalry on mules and on the 800 ponies Connor had captured ; thus putting ...
... cavalry horses which had been weakened by long marches and poor feed . We also aban- doned on Powder River about one hundred empty army wagons , remounting the cavalry on mules and on the 800 ponies Connor had captured ; thus putting ...
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... cavalry leader and able general in the great civil war , should within the next few years win a special renown as one of the prominent frontier officers , and meet so tragic a death- 66 In a barren land and lone Where the Big Horn and ...
... cavalry leader and able general in the great civil war , should within the next few years win a special renown as one of the prominent frontier officers , and meet so tragic a death- 66 In a barren land and lone Where the Big Horn and ...
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