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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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
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Table des matières:
- 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.


