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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. 136 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1. 52 0 Browse Search
Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant 44 0 Browse Search
Col. J. Stoddard Johnston, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 9.1, Kentucky (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 28 0 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 22 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 20 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore) 20 0 Browse Search
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. 14 0 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1 14 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 6. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 12 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: February 25, 1862., [Electronic resource], Ex-Governor Pennington on Poisoned. (search)
, requirements and positions; the whole controlled by the President, who is the Generalissimo established by the Constitution. Suppose Mr. Benjamin, a civilian, had assumed the responsibility of changing the locations of Forts Henry and Donelson, and that the new positions had been captured, would not the whole country rung with denunciations of his temerity in changing locations selected by men of high military capacity? Again, Mr. Benjamin is censured For not having forces enough at Donelson to ensure victory. Let us assume the force required to be 40,000 men. Let us then consider that we have a war frontier by land and sea of five thousand miles, upon each hundred miles of which the Federals, with their enormous power of concentration by land and water transportation, could throw a force as large as that thrown upon Donelson, and of course requiring 40,000 men to defend them. This calculation would give fifty points to defend, which, at 40,000 men each, would require a total