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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 134 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 16 0 Browse Search
Jubal Anderson Early, Ruth Hairston Early, Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early , C. S. A. 14 0 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 11 1 Browse Search
A. J. Bennett, private , First Massachusetts Light Battery, The story of the First Massachusetts Light Battery , attached to the Sixth Army Corps : glance at events in the armies of the Potomac and Shenandoah, from the summer of 1861 to the autumn of 1864. 10 0 Browse Search
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee 10 0 Browse Search
General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox 10 0 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 10 0 Browse Search
Robert Stiles, Four years under Marse Robert 8 0 Browse Search
Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865 8 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: May 16, 1864., [Electronic resource], From General Lee's Army. (search)
. It must be confessed that Grant has shown a good deal of cleverness in one respect, and that was in avoiding the route by Fredericksburg which proved so disastrous to Burnside. At the time Burnside moved down the north bank of the Rappahannock and attempted to cross at Fredericksburg, it is known that Hooker pointed out the route by which Grant has advanced as the better of the two; and it will be remembered when he succeeded to the command of the army, then occupying the heights of Stafford, he adopted his original plan in part and succeeded in getting as far as Chancellorsville. The thing which we have chiefly to regret is the loss of the devoted town of Fredericksburg, which has passed, temporarily at least, into the hands of the invader. We hear that Grant brought twenty two days supplies with him, the men carrying seven days on their backs, and the remainder being transported in wagons, of which there are 800 to each corps. It was evidently his purpose to make a rapid m