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Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 94 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 69 7 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore) 42 0 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 24 0 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 18 0 Browse Search
Col. Robert White, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 2.2, West Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 16 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: September 18, 1861., [Electronic resource] 16 0 Browse Search
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders. 16 0 Browse Search
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee 14 0 Browse Search
Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 14 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: October 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway--fifty dollars reward. (search)
even thousand men. But a small force, under an enterprising commander, in a country where it can readily obtain supplies, can be handled with more ease and greater effect than a large body, not as well equipped and remote from its supplies, no matter though controlled by equal skill and judgment. We had supposed that of all the defences of Virginia, her mountain ramparts would be the most reliable. We should have looked to any other part of the State except that as a vulnerable point. Cheat Mountain alone was a Gibraltar, which could be defended by a hundred men armed with rocks and branches of trees. There are other positions in the West, not of equal strength, but which could be made impregnable against any foe. The militia of the West, armed only with old-fashioned rifles, could defend many of those mountain passes against the whole Federal army in Western Virginia. Such was the impression of mere civilians ignorant of everything pertaining to military matters, except the c