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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 392 0 Browse Search
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary 390 2 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 385 3 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 368 12 Browse Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 345 33 Browse Search
Mrs. John A. Logan, Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife: An Autobiography 342 6 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 331 7 Browse Search
G. S. Hillard, Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-General , U. S. Army 309 5 Browse Search
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee 306 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1. 304 2 Browse Search
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G. S. Hillard, Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-General , U. S. Army, Chapter 8: (search)
works were delayed, and the labors and exposures of the men greatly increased, by the incessant rains. General McClellan's communications to the authorities at Washington show how he was tried and baffled by the obstinately bad weather. On the 4th of June he telegraphs to the President, Terrible rain-storm during the night and ms not a man to lose any time, and that, sooner or later, he would be a formidable element of danger on our right flank. His communications to the Government at Washington are full of earnest, almost passionate, entreaties for reinforcements, and in them he restates the reasons why he deems it important that his hands should be st had said, in a telegraphic message to the Secretary of War, If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army. That army he had saved; and the army was conscious of it. But there was nothing of triumph in his own mind; f
G. S. Hillard, Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-General , U. S. Army, Chapter 9: (search)
so his communications with the Government at Washington. He informs the President, in a despatch of made a visit to Harrison's Landing, leaving Washington on the 24th of July and returning on the 27ty to maintain a strict defensive in front of Washington and Harper's Ferry,--to those portions of th with elsewhere: here is the true defence of Washington; it is here, on the banks of the James, that Major-General. Major-General H. W. Halleck, Washington. The next day, at half-past 12, he sent Major-General. Major-General H. W. Halleck, Washington. To which the following reply was received:-- Washington, August 14, 1862, 1.40 A. M. I have read your despatch. There is no change to this despatch, the telegraph-operator in Washington informed him that General Halleck had taken n, Major-General. Major-General Halleck, Washington, D. C. As no reply was received to this com General Pope's movements and the defence of Washington; but no specific duty was assigned to him, a[4 more...]
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