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Baron de Jomini, Summary of the Art of War, or a New Analytical Compend of the Principle Combinations of Strategy, of Grand Tactics and of Military Policy. (ed. Major O. F. Winship , Assistant Adjutant General , U. S. A., Lieut. E. E. McLean , 1st Infantry, U. S. A.) 378 0 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 106 0 Browse Search
Emil Schalk, A. O., The Art of War written expressly for and dedicated to the U.S. Volunteer Army. 104 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: September 19, 1864., [Electronic resource] 66 0 Browse Search
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac 46 0 Browse Search
John Esten Cooke, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of War. 36 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 32 0 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 28 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 26 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 1: The Opening Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 26 0 Browse Search
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d heroes, haunt this guilty miscreant from his hiding place, and impart to his reptile soul one speck of your own immortal daring! Do you not see that the skulking tyrant has deceived you? He calls you to slaughter your brethren, and seeks his safety in your sacrifice. "Torrents of your blood," is his language, "but not one drop of mine." Heed not his clamor about the "Stars and Stripes," the "American Union," until he is ready to defend them with his own life. As well might you imagine Napoleon basking in the quiet shades of Malmalson, while all France was empurpled with the gore of the brave and the true. O, we reverence the man, conquered hero though he be, whose identity is lost when his country's honor is imperilled. Can Abram Lincoln be so blind as not to know that there are around him reflective men and women who will detect his cowardice, if they have not already discovered his perfidy? Mothers, will you longer allow him to urge on your almost idolized sons — the light o
d overthrown, the whole division, composed of 16,000 men, with the exception of 1,500 were captured or slain. Just then, the snow storm clearing up, revealed to Napoleon the peril to which he was brought, and the immediately ordered a grand charge by the Imperial Guard and the whole cavalry. Nothing was further from Bonaparte's no other resource left him. Murat sustained his high reputation on this occasion, and proved himself, for the hundredth time, worthy of the great confidence Napoleon placed in him. Nothing could be more imposing than the battle field at this moment. Bonaparte and the Empire trembled in the balance, while Murat prepared to les like lightning about him, that lofty white plume never once went down, while ever and anon it was seen glaring through the smoke of battle, the star of hope to Napoleon, and showing that his "right arm" was still uplifted and striking for victory. He raged like an unloosed lion amid the foe; and his eyes, always terrible in