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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.) 378 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) 106 0 Browse Search
Emil Schalk, A. O., The Art of War written expressly for and dedicated to the U.S. Volunteer Army. 104 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: September 19, 1864., [Electronic resource] 66 0 Browse Search
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac 46 0 Browse Search
John Esten Cooke, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of War. 36 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 32 0 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 28 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 26 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 1: The Opening Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 26 0 Browse Search
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rodino — the greatest, Alison says, ever fought in Europe, at least in modern times.--The French army numbered 120,000 men; the Russian has been variously estimated at 120, 130, 150, 170, 230 and 250,000 men. At any rate, it was an enormous army, with nearly a thousand pieces of cannon, the French themselves bringing about six hundred into the contest. The day was cool, bracing and beautifully clear, as the earlier part of yesterday was. As the first rays of the sun shot above the horizon, Napoleon said to those around him, "Behold the sun of Austerlitz, " ("voila lesoleil a Austerlitz. ") This was the only occasion on which he ever apostrophised that sun, so far as we have been able to discover after a diligent search, although Scott, and after him all the book-makers, will have it that he was continually alluding to it. The battle was desperate, the slaughter awful, the prise Moscow, with its gilded domes and noble palaces, its over-burthened warehouses, and its population of 300,00