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Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War 5 3 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
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J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army 4 0 Browse Search
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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore) 4 0 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.26 (search)
this domestic peace of over 200 years, the British have carried the English flag victorious from the Seine to the Indus, from Calcutta to Quebec, from Madrid to Cairo, it has been more by the skill of diplomacy and strategy, and especially more by sea power than by the movements of great forces. If we except the American campaigns and Wellington's operations against Napoleon, all the English fighting done in two centuries would scarce amount to that of General Lee in the single county of Spotsylvania, and would not amount to the fighting done by Early. A sea shell, says Emerson, should be the crest of England, not only because it represents a power built on the waves, but also because of the hard finish of the men. She is mistress of the seas; she is the dictator of finance and commerce—there is the key of her ascendancy. Who, then, would you say next? Would you say Clive, the military statesman who conquered Hindoostan? He, who at the battle of Plassey, on the 23d of June, 17