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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 5: Forts and Artillery. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 2 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died. 2 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1: prelminary narrative 1 1 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1: prelminary narrative, Preliminary narrative. (search)
hree hundred and ten men to fill our gaps; also a blanket and a pair of mittens for each of us. That will do for the present. H. S. Washburn's Poems, p. 19. Doubtless the clothing was supplied, but the need of recruits for any particular regiment brought up some new problems not quite so easy to solve. There is no subject on which criticism has been more constant than on the mistaken policy pursued in some of the States, and especially in Massachusetts, in respect to recruiting. Mr. J. C. Ropes, who is undoubtedly our ablest military critic, thinks that the greater part of the Northern States blindly and recklessly threw away the army's capital, as he calls it, of long service and experience, by forming new regiments instead of filling up the old ones. It is difficult to speak with patience, he says, of this wretched business. In this respect he thinks that the Federal army of the West, under Sherman, had immensely the advantage, through the wiser and more military policy wh