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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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The Daily Dispatch: June 9, 1862., [Electronic resource], "Can such things Be?" (search)
ith, and those who are authorized are using it with decided effect. It is proper that it should be The only fault that has been laid to his charge as an officer, so far as we have been enabled to understand his case, is that he fought too bard, and thereby saved a portion of his command when according to the r of tactics as understood at West Point. be ought to have surrendered the whole. This is something like the charge against the British army, which English v ity f ly attributed to Napoleon that they did not know when they were whipped, but with true insular obstinacy, gained battles by continuing to fight on, long after, according to every role of science, they ought to have considered themselves irre bly defeated. The public, unable to appreciate the niceties of military logic, have very naturally come to a different conclusion. They value success, 1st it be obtained as it may, and they think more highly of the man who saves a portion of his command against all this, than
The Daily Dispatch: June 9, 1862., [Electronic resource], A wife who knew how to "Let well enough Alone." (search)
intense selfishness which led him at the start to give up all his personal sympathies for the take of his personal advancement. He found that it pleased his master better to be a blackguard than a gentleman, and he has proved himself ready for any role that improves his own fortunes. Moreover, it became necessary to propitiate the Northern mob. Scott was too allow for them, because he had not succeeded in three months in subjugating the South, and they had discovered in McClellan a young Napoleon, who would come up to the mark in time and efficiency. He himself proclaimed that the war was to be "short and d sperat: " he has proclaimed that over and over again. He has now been ten months in Scott's saddles, and he is not yet even in Richmond. The Northern mob begin to suspect their new idol. They clamor for victories, and he has no victories to give them, except upon paper. Hence the astounding falsehoods in his accounts of recent battles, so unworthy a gentleman and a soldier.
The Daily Dispatch: June 9, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
The sitter told Dr. O'Meara what sort of fatalist he was. The doctor told him he had heard that he was a fatalist. "In action," that is, in battle, "I am," said Napoleon. He then proceeded to exemplify his meaning. At the sings of Tonlon. where he commanded the artillery, a young officer of artillery, instead of observing the ng officer rose, but instead of standing out fairly by his side on the parapet, only peeped out under his arm. At that moment a shot passed under the arm, missed Napoleon, and dashed out the officer's brains. "You see," added Napoleon. "if he had stood up fairly, the shot would have passed between us, and he would not have been haNapoleon. "if he had stood up fairly, the shot would have passed between us, and he would not have been hart." But we will not go farther in this subject, which Milton tells us perplexed the Apostate in Pandemonium immediately after the fall, and has perplexed everybody else ever since. All we shall insist upon is that we meant to attribute nothing discreditable to old Stone Wall Jackson.