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John Bell Hood., Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate Armies	6	0	Browse	Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard)	4	0	Browse	Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones)	2	0	Browse	Search
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regretted that he did not follow in the footsteps of the renowned Roman by holding on to the mountains of Georgia. In the long course of years, during which Fabius Maximus commanded at intervals the Roman Legions, he could never be induced to quit the mountainous regions, and accept the gage of battle with Hannibal upon the plai moved out upon the plains of Georgia, he bid adieu forever to even a shadow of right to the claim of having pursued the policy so persistently carried out by Fabius Maximus. Had he clung to the mountains and refused to surrender them to General Sherman, vast indeed might have been the results achieved, and far greater his title eir empire, which had been shaken by so many tempests. Since General Johnston failed to practice the art of war in accordance with the principles either of Fabius Maximus or of Scipio Africanus, and since he fought not a single general battle during the entire war of Secession, what just claim has he to generalship? A man may

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