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Extraordinary circumstances : the Seven Days Battles /

The Seven Days Battles was the first campaign in the Civil War in which Robert E. Lee led the Army of Northern Virginia and has been the subject of a number of fine historical treatments. None, however, is more detailed and engaging than Burton's closely observed account. It is a moment-by-mome...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Burton, Brian K., 1959-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2001.
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  • The Nation has been making progress
  • How are we to get at those people?
  • The responsibility cannot be thrown on my shoulders
  • Charging batteries is highly dangerous
  • Little Powell will do his full duty today
  • We're holding them, but it's getting hotter and hotter
  • I have a regiment that can take it
  • You have done your best to sacrifice this Army
  • His only course seemed to me was to make for James River
  • But what do you think? Is the enemy in large force?
  • He has other important duty to perform
  • Why, those men are rebels!
  • We've got him
  • He ... Rose and walked off in silence
  • I thought I heard firing
  • It is nothing when you get used to it
  • We had better let him alone
  • Press forward your whole line and follow up Armistead's success
  • General Magruder, why did you attack?
  • It was a very tedious, tiresome March
  • Under ordinary circumstances the Federal Army should have been destroyed.