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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. | 3 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 33. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) | 3 | 1 | Browse | Search |
General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. | 2 | 2 | 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) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Browsing named entities in Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 33. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones). You can also browse the collection for Ezra A. Carman or search for Ezra A. Carman in all documents.
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 33. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.20 (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 33. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Crisis at Sharpsburg . (search)
Crisis at Sharpsburg.
Comparison of losses there with those of other great battles,
General Carman has said of this battle, in an address delivered on the field:
The Confederate victories in June, July and August appeared so conclusive of the ability of the South to maintain itself that September 14th, the day of South Mountain, when Lord Palmerston, prime minister of England, read in the Observer the accounts of Lee's victories at Second Manassas, he wrote Lord John Russell, secretary for foreign affairs, that the Federals had got a very complete smashing, and it seems not altogether unlikely that still greater disasters await them, and that even Washington or Baltimore may fall into the hands of the Confederates, and suggested that in this state of affairs the time had come for mediation between the North and South, upon the basis of separation.
Gettysburg only exceeded it in the number killed and wounded, but that was a three days fight.
Antietam was but one day