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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 16 16 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 13 13 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Battles 5 5 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 10: The Armies and the Leaders. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 4 4 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore) 4 4 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died. 4 4 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 3 3 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 2 2 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 2 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 2 2 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.). You can also browse the collection for January 9th, 1863 AD or search for January 9th, 1863 AD in all documents.

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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—--the Mississippi. (search)
to line more soldiers than his adversary beyond Murfreesborough. The Federal government promises him reinforcements. In the mean while, his army, previously designated as the Fourteenth corps, is reorganized, divided into three corps, and called the Army of the Cumberland. Thomas, Mc-Cook, and Crittenden each retains the troops under his respective command, forming the Fourteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-first corps. General Orders, No. 9, War Department, Adjutant-general's Office, January 9, 1863.—Ed. The positions taken by Bragg are very strong. The great plateau of the Cumberland, forming the échelon farthest west of the Alleghanies, extends southward as far as the thirty-fourth degree of latitude; the Tennessee, after traversing from east to west the first chain of hills, called Waldron's Ridge at the north and Lookout Mountain at the south, hugs the eastern base of the plateau as far as Guntersville, where it winds around its extremity as it flows in a westerly directio
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—Pennsylvania. (search)
to interfere for the purpose of imposing a mediation. It is true that France had not the courage to follow out the policy it had adopted in regard to Mexico. Taking its wishes for reality, it became so thoroughly convinced of the impending defeat of the North that it deemed it wiser to let the destruction of the Union be accomplished without interference, an essential result of the success which has attended its Transatlantic combinations. Nevertheless, the French despatch of the 9th of January, 1863, was a menace which might be realized at any moment. Let us sum up in a few words the situation of the two adversaries. The South saw her finances ruined, her paper worthless; the conscription and the impressments could alone fill up the ranks of her armies and feed them. The total number of her able-bodied population did not admit of any hope that her effective forces could be increased in the future, while famine threatened to paralyze her military operations. The word famine,