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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... entire civilization of this republic . The history of the Massachusetts colonies and of the commonwealth that succeeded them is brilliant with events that mark the progress of the human race , bright in the develop- ment of enlightened ...
... entire civilization of this republic . The history of the Massachusetts colonies and of the commonwealth that succeeded them is brilliant with events that mark the progress of the human race , bright in the develop- ment of enlightened ...
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... entire property into con- tinental money , and he was eventually impoverished thereby through the repudiation by the government of this currency , which was a loss of what would have amounted by this time , with accumulated interest ...
... entire property into con- tinental money , and he was eventually impoverished thereby through the repudiation by the government of this currency , which was a loss of what would have amounted by this time , with accumulated interest ...
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... entire four years of war . Speaking of this corps , Major - General Winfield S. Hancock says in a letter dated in August , 1864 , before Petersburg , Virginia , and addressed to Lieutenant - General Grant : " It is perhaps known to you ...
... entire four years of war . Speaking of this corps , Major - General Winfield S. Hancock says in a letter dated in August , 1864 , before Petersburg , Virginia , and addressed to Lieutenant - General Grant : " It is perhaps known to you ...
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... entire national forces composed . While heroic sacrifices were made by the Army of the Potomac , other armies and fleets were with similar devotion engaged in the same noble cause . The Army of the Union was , in fact , " The People in ...
... entire national forces composed . While heroic sacrifices were made by the Army of the Potomac , other armies and fleets were with similar devotion engaged in the same noble cause . The Army of the Union was , in fact , " The People in ...
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... entire line , and the extending of the line to the left , with Sheridan's cavalry reinforced by the Fifth Corps of the Army of the Potomac under Major - General Warren , resulted in a victory for us in the engagement at Five Forks ...
... entire line , and the extending of the line to the left , with Sheridan's cavalry reinforced by the Fifth Corps of the Army of the Potomac under Major - General Warren , resulted in a victory for us in the engagement at Five Forks ...
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