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Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 204 0 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 144 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. 113 11 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 93 1 Browse Search
An English Combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery of the Field Staff., Battlefields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps. 73 3 Browse Search
Robert Lewis Dabney, Life and Commands of Lieutenand- General Thomas J. Jackson 60 12 Browse Search
Jubal Anderson Early, Ruth Hairston Early, Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early , C. S. A. 60 6 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 55 15 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 51 3 Browse Search
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War 42 18 Browse Search
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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 4: General Sheridan. (search)
eridan the Missouri, from Chicago; and Major-general McDowell the South, from Louisville. General S or more departments. The division of Major-general McDowell, of which New Orleans forms a part, counder the orders of his superior officer, General McDowell. General Sheridan's Division of the Miscretion, either the whole or any part of General McDowell's division to his own. What sort of a. ... You can, if you desire it, see General McDowell in Louisville, and make known to him, confideMichigan. If unity of command is needed, General McDowell is the officer in charge of the South. Ithought so serious that a higher officer than McDowell should be on the spot, General Sherman is thaerman simply acknowledged the receipt. General McDowell's case was still more delicate. No offics letter which instructed Sheridan to see General McDowell in Louisville, and make known to him, conw fit to do so. Sheridan preferred to keep McDowell in the dark. The party of ladies and offic[1 more...]
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 7: banditti (search)
isiana, Missisippi, and Arkansas, with all the forts and stations in the Gulf of Mexico, except the forts in Mobile Bay — are swept by one stroke of the pen from McDowell's Division of the South. Next morning brings Sheridan an assurance from the Adjutant-General, Townsend, that his conduct is approved: to which assurance he r to public departments they begin to use scant courtesy and suspicious terms. A copy of Townsend's first letter to Sheridan, now twelve days old, is sent to General McDowell, from which this eminent soldier learns that his command in the Gulf has been swept away! In telling General Sherman that Sheridan has taken the command inugh brave and loyal, they are free men, caring little for glory, and much for liberty. On whom besides Sheridan can tile President rely? Sherman stands aloof. McDowell is offended, not only by the loss of his Department on the Gulf, but by the secret orders under which his province has been seized. Yet Belknap, more Caesarian