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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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The Daily Dispatch: December 19, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Norfolk. (search)
McClellan and McDowell. McClellan, in his testimony before the Court Martial which is now trying McDowell, stated that if McDowell's colMcDowell, stated that if McDowell's column had come on he should certainly have entered Richmond that very day, and assigns his failure to come on as the reason of his own failure tMcDowell's column had come on he should certainly have entered Richmond that very day, and assigns his failure to come on as the reason of his own failure to take the city. It is natural enough for a General, beaten and disgraced, as McClellan was to cast about for reasons to excuse himself, and he very last that he could take Richmond without the assistance of McDowell, and if he could not do it with the overwhelming force which he hahatever. Certainly he could not have done it with the addition of McDowell's 15,090 or 20,000 men. Gen. Johnston was perfectly aware of the existence of McDowell's force and believed that he should have to encounter it is addition to that already before him. He had made his dise the result would not have been altered in the slightest degree. McDowell would have shared the came fate with all the rests had he not, ind