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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 71 1 Browse Search
Elias Nason, McClellan's Own Story: the war for the union, the soldiers who fought it, the civilians who directed it, and his relations to them. 70 4 Browse Search
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 66 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 57 1 Browse Search
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee 52 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 10: The Armies and the Leaders. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 50 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 48 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 44 2 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 44 4 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: September 30, 1861., [Electronic resource] 36 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: February 22, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Yankees abroad. (search)
mited means, always accomplishes remarkable results, and, with overpowering armies around him, always gives a good account of himself. Without disparagement to West Point Generals, we must be permitted to believe that once in a while Nature makes a General just to show West Point how is ought to be done. General Price is one of West Point how is ought to be done. General Price is one of Nature's specimens. How do you like him ? We believe in West Point to a certain extent but are no idolaters. Neither Cæsar nor Alexander ever graduated at a military school, and Napoleon would always have been Napoleon, if he had never seen the inside of an academy. West Point how is ought to be done. General Price is one of Nature's specimens. How do you like him ? We believe in West Point to a certain extent but are no idolaters. Neither Cæsar nor Alexander ever graduated at a military school, and Napoleon would always have been Napoleon, if he had never seen the inside of an academy.
The Daily Dispatch: February 22, 1862., [Electronic resource], Sketches of "captured rebel Generals." (search)
n. Gen. Albert S. Johnston was born in Macon county, Ky., in 1803, and is consequently fifty-eight years of age. After the usual school training young Johnston was adopted by the U. States, and educated at its expense at the Military Academy at West Point. On graduating he entered the Sixth infantry, and was ordered to the West. During the Black Hawk war he acted as Adjutant General, President Lincoln being at the time a captain of volunteers. At the close of the war he resigned his commissioe, there was a military board established, for the ostensible purpose of organizing and arming the militia of the State. None but inside members of the Golden Circle became members, of it. General Buckner was de facto. its head. A graduate of West Point, long in the regular service, twice breveted for gallant conduct in Mexico, his qualifications as an officer and his personal courage are not to be reasonably doubted. He is a young man, of about 37 years of age, and, we regret to say, a nativ