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Baron de Jomini, Summary of the Art of War, or a New Analytical Compend of the Principle Combinations of Strategy, of Grand Tactics and of Military Policy. (ed. Major O. F. Winship , Assistant Adjutant General , U. S. A., Lieut. E. E. McLean , 1st Infantry, U. S. A.) 52 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: September 22, 1862., [Electronic resource] 18 0 Browse Search
H. Wager Halleck , A. M. , Lieut. of Engineers, U. S. Army ., Elements of Military Art and Science; or, Course of Instruction in Strategy, Fortification, Tactis of Battles &c., Embracing the Duties of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery and Engineers. Adapted to the Use of Volunteers and Militia. 16 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: May 7, 1862., [Electronic resource] 10 0 Browse Search
Emil Schalk, A. O., The Art of War written expressly for and dedicated to the U.S. Volunteer Army. 10 0 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1 10 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 6 0 Browse Search
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: September 13, 1862., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: November 15, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ld be fed by no possible contrivance, and would break to pieces of itself like a ship stuck high, and dry upon a rock. After all, in modern times, a comparative handful always decide the war. In 1796-'97, the Austrians and French together had seven or eight hundred thousand men under arms, but the contest was decided in Italy, where the French had never more than thirty thousand.--In 1805, Austria had five hundred and fifty thousand men under arms. The army that was captured or dispersed at Ulm did not number more than eighty thousand; yet that, in fact, decided the contest. At Ligny, Quatre Bras and Waterloo less than three hundred thousand men decided a contest which more than two millions were armed to take a part in. Such enormous bodies cannot be brought into action entire. They serve merely as recruiting depots for the army in front as it becomes exhausted. With all the enormous hosts Lincoln has called out heretofore, he has never been able to bring more than three to one