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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 932 0 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 544 0 Browse Search
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation 208 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 116 0 Browse Search
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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 I. 94 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 86 0 Browse Search
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John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter II (search)
f troops, which took the Moultrie garrison to Florida, and some of the 1st Artillery to their place battle for his country. I took with me to Florida some law-books—Blackstone, Kent, and a few otetter, I read over the entire code of the State of Florida. Several times in after years I found it But I had nothing better to do for a time in Florida, and when I got out I did not find my memory operations designed by the War Department for Florida was the occupation of Fort Jupiter, and the cth my part of the work and was ordered out of Florida before the Seminoles found out what the plan bad luck. He got caught by the Seminoles in Florida; was shipwrecked on Lake Michigan; came very finally died of the wounds he had received in Florida. I had a new and peculiar experience at Fouty at West Point. So Hill and I came out of Florida together. On board the St. John's River steaaduated, and a short absence on account of my Florida debility, which had reduced me to 120 pounds
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter X (search)
artialed and cashiered Are not the soldiers of a republic worth even a dollar apiece! Patriotism and courage exist in great abundance in the breasts of young Americans. All they need is instruction, discipline, a little experience, such as our greatest soldier said he himself needed at first, and, above all, intelligent leadership, which can be acquired only by military education, to make them the best soldiers the world has ever known. When I joined my company as second lieutenant in Florida in the winter of 1853-4, I found the company had been reduced to one lance-sergeant, two lancecor-porals, and thirteen privates. Yellow fever had done its deadly work. But that lesson was not lost. In later years, upon the approach of that enemy, which could not be conquered even by the highest science then known or practised, the troops were marched a few mites into the pure air of the piney woods, where the dreaded fever could not reach them. At the close of the epidemic season which
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Index (search)
37 Canby, Maj.-Gen. Edward R. S., S.'s meeting with in Florida, and subsequent relations with, 23, 24; commanding Departmng the War Department, 413 et seq., 478 Everglades, the, Fla., the Seminoles in, 23 Ewing, Maj.-Gen., Hugh, in the Kan0; Beauregard near, 288 Florence, Italy, S. at, 393 Florida, the second Artillery ordered to, 18; S.'s service in, 19-is administration, 423 Hartsuff, George L., ill luck in Florida, 25; organizes the Twenty-third Army Corps, 25; intimacy w1, 22; proficiency in drawing, 23; military engineering in Florida, 23, 24, 183; ordered to West Point, 24, 25; stricken with27-29; study of physics, 28; literary work, 28; results of Florida fever, 28; study of astronomy, 28, 29; marries Miss BartleSecond U. S. Artillery, S.'s service in, 17-19; ordered to Florida, 18; service in Missouri, 35; battle of Boonville, 37 Secoe Sanitary Commission, 31 Yellow fever, outbreak of, in Florida, 20, 24, 25, 183; S.'s eradication of, from the army, 183