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Baron de Jomini, Summary of the Art of War, or a New Analytical Compend of the Principle Combinations of Strategy, of Grand Tactics and of Military Policy. (ed. Major O. F. Winship , Assistant Adjutant General , U. S. A., Lieut. E. E. McLean , 1st Infantry, U. S. A.) 378 0 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 106 0 Browse Search
Emil Schalk, A. O., The Art of War written expressly for and dedicated to the U.S. Volunteer Army. 104 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: September 19, 1864., [Electronic resource] 66 0 Browse Search
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac 46 0 Browse Search
John Esten Cooke, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of War. 36 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 32 0 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 28 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 26 0 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 1: The Opening Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 26 0 Browse Search
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e era of the spade and mattock, were considered the glory and the test of true generalship. The rapid marches, the profound calculations, the energetic attack, the dogged resistance, so characteristic of the great Corsican, seemed scarcely less so of the daring Virginian. We are pleased to learn that the same idea had already struck a man who, of all men in America, is most profoundly versed in the Napoleonic system — a man educated at the Polytechnique, and inured to war under the eye of Napoleon himself — a man withal of high talent and great scientific attainments. We allude, of course, to the veteran Col. Claudius Crozet, of whom we ought to ask pardon, for the free use we make of his name to establish a theory of our own, without asking his consent. Indeed, without the authority of so great a name, it is not difficult to trace a striking resemblance between the first section (if we may so call it) of the first campaign in Italy and so much of Jackson's first campaign as has al
ona to the Peace Societies. Hercules made his appearance once more among men, and laid about him right and left with his big club-Scarcely was the Crimean war well over, before the ruler of France furnished the world with another illustration of his memorable declaration, that "the Empire is Peace." Italy was the scene of this instructive illustration, and the French soldiers demonstrated that they had never listened to Elihu Burritt. They proved themselves as invincible as in the days of Napoleon, and even more destructive. Whilst the advocates of Peace had been uttering benevolent platitudes, the instruments of war had been improved in their death-dealing capacities with an ingenuity which may well have been the work of the devil. The bloody scenes in India, and the tiger-like assaults of the Turks upon the Syrian Christians, added their fearful attestations to the truth that the lion has not yet laid down with the lamb. But there was one land which had hitherto escaped thes