The American Civil War - This Mighty Scourge of War
The fighting 123 Southern combatants. When Beauregard realized that Van Dorn was not coming, and that his troops were nearly out ...
124 The American Civil War Perhaps even more stunning than the Union victory at Shiloh was Flag Officer David G. Farragut's capt ...
The fighting 125 uniform stuffed with straw hanging by the neck from a scrubby tree limb. Nearby a pine board was nailed fast, a ...
126 The American Civil War by Confederates to be the 'Gibraltar of the West.' By June 1862, no commander in either army could bo ...
The fighting 127 about the size of France. Fighting in battle constituted one brand of warfare, but attempting to maintain supre ...
128 The American Civil War By mid-June, with the rivers no longer at his disposal, Halleck had dispersed his large army overland ...
The fighting 129 The Western Theater, summer-fall, 1862 ...
130 The American Civil War there he and Major-General Edmund Kirby Smith, already at Lexington. Kentucky, with 10.000 soldiers, ...
The fighting 131 advanced to Corinth and battled Roseerans for two days, on 3-4 October, but failed to defeat him. Fresh from vi ...
132 The American Civil War rail; it was also the link between the Confederate forces east and west of the river. If Vicksburg we ...
The fighting 133 Union General William S. Rosecrans was sent west at his own request and served under John Pope during the advan ...
134 The American Civil War Nashville turnpike several hundred yards from the Confederate line. Ironically, both Rosecrans and Br ...
The fighting 135 2 January 1863, Bragg was dumbfounded to find that Rosecrans had not left. When the Confederate commander order ...
136 The American Civil War of the previous year. Commanders were able to exercise more liberality in foraging, confiscating cont ...
The fighting 137 authorities had invested in new boats specifically designed for river warfare. Nothing of much consequence occu ...
138 The American Civil War supplies on board. Ellet was under orders to continue south all the way to the Red River near the Mis ...
The fighting 139 city, through which they could redirect the river waters and float vessels south. Again, the operation failed. ...
140 The American Civil War As Grant moved his forces from Milliken's Bend to below Vicksburg, Admiral David Dixon Porter, the na ...
The fighting 141 supply. Grant concluded then to live off the land. After all, his army had done this before in Mississippi duri ...
142 The Arnerican Civil War favored his advance. On 12 May, the Federals met resistance at Raymond, 15 miles (24km) south of Jac ...
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