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L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion 45 3 Browse Search
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 44 0 Browse Search
Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States. 41 5 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 36 0 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1 29 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: September 19, 1864., [Electronic resource] 16 16 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: July 7, 1864., [Electronic resource] 14 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: July 13, 1863., [Electronic resource] 14 0 Browse Search
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order 12 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 2: Two Years of Grim War. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 12 2 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: December 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 13 (search)
we ever shall be. We have the advantage of superiority in that respect to the enemy. Every unprejudiced observer during the Mexican war will testify that the regiments from the North, in the excellence of their drill, far exceeded those from the States now in rebellion. Our opponents are formidable only when their individuality can be shown while fighting under cover — as at Manassas, Springfield, and Ball's Bluff. Operating in mass, on the open field, we can always conquer — as at Dry Wood, where four hundred Kansas troops checked and drove back ten thousand rebels; and of these facts the Confederates themselves are fully aware. Recently, at Spring river, eight hundred Kansas troops encountered six thousand rebels, covered by that stream and six miles of timber. This handful of heroic men offered a fight on the open prairie, which was declined by the enemy — either because they expected us to repeat the folly of attacking them in their timber stronghold, or feared a defeat wi<