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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: October 16, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Gen. Bragg's army. (search)
ant. He was a great and original genius, but it never entered his head that the best way to contend with a great naval power was to blow up all his ships. That idea is of later origin, and deserves all the credit for originality that can be claimed by the admirers of Homer and Shakespeare for the most original of their conceptions. Any man who will take the trouble to consult Leanne's Journal, in that part which relates to the harbor of Cherbourg, will see with what prodigious energy Napoleon pushed his naval preparations long after the battle of Trafalgar had destroyed the French marine. The Spartans never thought of destroying the ships of their allies in the Peloponnesian war because the Athenian were the stronger at sea. Notwithstanding the disaster at Syracuse, where a whole army was captured, the Peloponnesian gained no advantage over the Athenian for twenty-three years when they had accumulated a fleet equal to theirs. Than, and then only, the naval battle of Egos Potam
The Daily Dispatch: October 16, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Yankees at Prentiss. (search)
wo opposite Mrs. Coffee's, on the bank of the river, one a corporal, the other a private, both members of the 33d regiment Illinois volunteers. During the night (Sunday) a gunboat that had gone down to Vicksburg some time since, under a flag of truce, came up and acted next morning in harmony with the others; hauling down during the night her flag of truce which she came up with. I do not know the name of this boat, but she was marked "L." When they left Prentiss they crossed over to Napoleon and landed. They told the people there that they had three men killed; and among them one of their best officers, and seven wounded. It is believed they sent their dead officer and wounded up on the gunboat L, which went up when the others went down. This regiment (33d Illinois) have rendered themselves in Coahoma county notorious for plundering. They seem to be nothing but a band of robbers and thieves, whose only object is to steal and burn where they go. They showed no inclination wha