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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 283 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 274 14 Browse Search
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Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 76 0 Browse Search
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Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 70 0 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 66 0 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II.. You can also browse the collection for Sharpsburg (Maryland, United States) or search for Sharpsburg (Maryland, United States) in all documents.

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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II., Explanatory. (search)
ume little space, and do not interrupt the flow of the narrative. The reader who does not value need not heed them; while the critical student will often find them of decided use. Should any one demur to this, I urge him to examine thoughtfully the dates of the dispatches received and sent by McClellan between his retreat to Harrison's bar and Pope's defeat at Groveton; also, those given in my account of his movements from the hour of his arrival at Frederick to that of Lee's retreat from Sharpsburg across the Potomac. I trust it will be observed by candid critics that, while I seek not to disguise the fact that I honor and esteem some of our commanders as I do not others, I have been blind neither to the errors of the former nor to the just claims of the latter — that my high estimation of Grant and Sherman (for instance) has not led me to conceal or soften the lack of reasonable precautions which so nearly involved their country in deplorable if not irremediable disaster at Pitts
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II., IX. my Maryland --Lee's invasion. (search)
s Lee to the Antietam battle of Antietam or Sharpsburg losses Lee retreats across the Potomac Potion as he may select, take the route toward Sharpsburg, cross the Potomac at the most convenient potam creek, in front of the little village of Sharpsburg. Richardson halted and deployed on the right of the road from Keedysville to Sharpsburg; Sykes, with his division of regulars, following cloself the 16th; crossing and reporting to Lee at Sharpsburg by noon. McClellan, in his report, says: rtillery fire, half way up from the creek to Sharpsburg, over very rugged ground, much of it covereded as far as Dr. Piper's house, very near to Sharpsburg, and about the center of the Rebel army at tcorps, in our center, holding the roads from Sharpsburg to Middletown and Boonsborough, remained unes beyond, and advance along their crest upon Sharpsburg; but it was not till 1 P. M. that the bridgeof his troops reaching even the outskirts of Sharpsburg. It was an easy but a short-lived triumph
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II., Appended notes. (search)
captures from Pope, 189; his losses, 189; his advance into Maryland, 193; address to Maryland, 193-4; his general order, 194-5; Harper's Ferry his object, 195; divides his army, 196; at the battle of South Mountain, 198; on Antietam creek, near Sharpsburg, 204; his report of the battle, 210; recrosses the Potomac, 210; moves to Bunker Hill and Winchester. 211; fights Burnside at Fredericksburg, 343 to 349; fights Hooker, 355; Sedgwick on his rear at Chancellorsville, 363; his order, 365; his ar. of New York, 254; on the crisis, 499-500; addresses New York rioters, 506; urges the President to suspend drafting, 507. Shackleford, Gen., routed at Jonesboroa, Tenn., by W. E. Jones, 430. Shaeffer, Col., killed at Stone River, 274. Sharpsburg, near Antietam, fighting around, 208. Shaw, Col. Robert G., 54th Mass., killed at Fort Wagner. 477. Shelby, Gen., raids into Missouri, 453; is worsted by Carr near St. Charles, 554; captures most of the 54th Illinois, 555; pursues Ewing,