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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories	472	144	Browse	Search
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler	358	8	Browse	Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore)	215	21	Browse	Search
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1	186	2	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.	124	0	Browse	Search
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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2	97	15	Browse	Search
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Elias Nason, McClellan's Own Story: the war for the union, the soldiers who fought it, the civilians who directed it, and his relations to them.	83	1	Browse	Search
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The Daily Dispatch: January 6, 1865., [Electronic resource], The Yankee press on. The Wilmington failure. (search)

asily captured by the land forces under General Butler, and that in failing to make the experiment he lost a fine opportunity for a great success. * * * * We think that the Admiral's opinion, from the testimony presented, will be pronounced the correct one by the army, navy and people at large, with but a very few dissenting voices. It seems to us that never was there a fairer opportunity for an easy conquest; and that, although ordered to make baste and return with his troops to Fortress Monroe, General Butler committed the greatest mistake of his whole military career in deciding, on Christmas day; against an attempt to carry Fort Fisher at the point of the bayonet, as it might have been carried in a rapid dash of a thousand, or even five hundred, men. One of our war correspondents, accompanying this Wilmington expedition, says that when General Weitzel, after his reconnaissance of the fort, went to consult with General Butler, leaving General Ames in command of the troo

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