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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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The Daily Dispatch: June 1, 1864., [Electronic resource], Later from the North. (search)
Grant's losses. A contemporary says Grant lost more men on the 12th than Napoleon lost in the battle of Waterloo. In the 9th volume of his memoirs, dictated at St. Helena to Gen Gourgand, NapolNapoleon says the loss of the French army, from the opening of the campaign to the gates of Paris, was 41,000 men. This statement embraces the battles of Ligna and Quatre Bras, on the 16th of June the batt Col. Siborne, the French lost 28,000 men killed and wounded, and 6,000 prisoners. According to Napoleon the allies lost in the campaign 60,000 men.--In the battle of Waterloo their lose was nearly eqEven a the low estimate of the New York News (60,000) these losses reach the figure assigned by Napoleon to the allies in the campaign of Waterloo, and exceeds that acknowledged by the allies (61,000)s true that Waterico ended in a rout, and that Spotsylvania did not. But the reason is obvious, Napoleon had no heavy fortifications in his immediate rear, at Grant had. But the indisposition of Grant
The Daily Dispatch: June 1, 1864., [Electronic resource], From Georgia. (search)
d be fatal to him, and for some such result as this we confidently look it be true, as is generally believed, that Gen Potris, with a large force is now in his rear and giving his attention to this work.--there are thousands of men in Siddle Tennessee and Kentucky who will rush to Forrest's standard and swell his little army to formidable proportions, and sender the exit of Sherman through these States extremely hazardous if not impossible. They will be to him what the were to the army of Napoleon on its and ill-fated retreat from Moscow, and he will have cause to thank his fortune if his exit from the Confederacy is attended with no lass fatal results than those which belief the grand army of France in its exit from Russia. To prevent such a disaster as would attend a retreat to the Ohio Sherman is compelled to defeat the army of Gen Johnston, which no one believes he ever can or will do. For the future he will find a forward movement even more hazardous than an advance backwa