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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... FOUR MONTHS AFTER ARRIVING AT Carlisle 393 THE SIGN LANGUAGE 398 DIZZY HEIGHTS 401 WATCHING THE COMING OF THE WHITE MAN 405 CAPTAIN BALDWIN 406 CHERUBS , INDIAN BABIES IN THEIR CRADLES 408 INDIAN WEAPONS 410 GENERALS CROOK AND TERRY ...
... FOUR MONTHS AFTER ARRIVING AT Carlisle 393 THE SIGN LANGUAGE 398 DIZZY HEIGHTS 401 WATCHING THE COMING OF THE WHITE MAN 405 CAPTAIN BALDWIN 406 CHERUBS , INDIAN BABIES IN THEIR CRADLES 408 INDIAN WEAPONS 410 GENERALS CROOK AND TERRY ...
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... Four very sharply - defined seasons follow one after another in that region , each with vicissitudes and charms peculiarly its own , constantly making demands upon the physical system , and the thought and ingenuity of its inhabitants ...
... Four very sharply - defined seasons follow one after another in that region , each with vicissitudes and charms peculiarly its own , constantly making demands upon the physical system , and the thought and ingenuity of its inhabitants ...
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... four long years , drenched the soil with the best blood of our people . It shadowed nearly every household of our land with the drapery of mourning . The passions and prejudices engendered by the protracted and bitter struggle have ...
... four long years , drenched the soil with the best blood of our people . It shadowed nearly every household of our land with the drapery of mourning . The passions and prejudices engendered by the protracted and bitter struggle have ...
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... four years the contest did not cease for a single day . It was a death grapple of giants . Somewhere , along a battle - front extending from the Chesapeake to the upper Rio Grande overland , and from the mouth of the Rio Grande to the ...
... four years the contest did not cease for a single day . It was a death grapple of giants . Somewhere , along a battle - front extending from the Chesapeake to the upper Rio Grande overland , and from the mouth of the Rio Grande to the ...
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... 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 that ...
... 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 that ...
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