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G. S. Hillard, Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-General , U. S. Army 8 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: October 10, 1861., [Electronic resource] 8 0 Browse Search
James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen 8 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 8 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 4 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee 4 0 Browse Search
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 4 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: March 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Grave to Gay. (search)
of the 50,000 who remained, but had nothing to do with the destruction of the main body, (the 250,000.) To what, then, was it owing? To three causes. 1. The immensity of the distances to be traversed. From the Niemen to Moscow is above six hundred miles. No human efforts were capable of conveying provisions for 420,000 men over such a distance. An English army almost perished because it could not procure land-transport sufficient for six miles of bad road, during inclement weather, from Balaklava to its camp before Sebastopol. Napoleon had six hundred miles of road to bring his supplies along. No power could accomplish this. 2. The barren nature of the country through which they had to pass. The rich low-lands of Italy or Germany will afford sustenance to any number of men marching through them in an ordinary manner. All that is there required is a store with the army of six or seven days provisions, for the case of its concentrating to fight. But the vast Lithuanian and Russi