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John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army 194 0 Browse Search
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1 74 0 Browse Search
Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant 74 0 Browse Search
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 72 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 66 4 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 47 1 Browse Search
Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 40 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) 34 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 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 33 1 Browse Search
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1 32 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: March 22, 1862., [Electronic resource], The course of England and France. (search)
ilitary education. Let us see what young gentlemen are taught at West Point: They study a course of mathematics. They pass through Newton's eption of the drill, as well and as thoroughly as it is taught at West Point. Indeed, without intending any disparagement of the latter instielected according to our own pleasure, against the very best that West Point ever sent forth, the trial being confined to mathematics and the y institution, who drill our troops as well as the very best that West Point has furnished us. A Drill-Sergeant can perform that duty better tus, without ever having rubbed his shoulders against the walls of West Point, and without genius he cannot do it, notwithstanding he may be asd in the least by the circumstance of his having been educated at West Point. What is the object of a West Point education? Is it not to makcation? Is it not to make good officers? And if you have a good officer, what does it matter whether he was educated at West Point or not?