 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 598 pages
...citadels taken, must, Grant conceived, break the Confederate power past resuscitation. He said : " The enemy had concentrated the bulk of his forces...Lee and JE Johnston, his ablest and best Generals. Tho army commanded by Lee occupied the south bank of tho Rapidan, extending from Mine Run westward,... | |
 | United States. President - United States - 1866 - 722 pages
...soldier, and those who could not bear arms in the field acted as provosts for collecting deserters and returning them. This enabled the enemy to bring almost...intrenched, covering and defending Richmond, the rebel capital, against the army of the Potomac. The army under Johnston occupied a strongly intrenched position... | |
 | Robert Allen Campbell - United States - 1866 - 390 pages
...soldier, and those who could not bear arms in the field acted as provosts for collecting deserters and returning them. This enabled the enemy to bring almost...strongly intrenched, covering and defending Richmond. The army under Johnston occupied a strongly intrenched position at Dalton, Ga., covering and defending... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1866 - 436 pages
...soldier, and those who could not bear arms in the field acted as provosts for collecting deserters and returning them. This enabled the enemy to bring almost...army commanded by Lee occupied the south bank of the Itapidim, extending from Mine Run westward, strongly intrenched, . covering and defending Richmond,... | |
 | J. T. Headley - History - 1866 - 774 pages
...soldier, and those who could not bear arms in the field acted as provosts for collecting deserters and returning them. This enabled the enemy to bring almost...armies, commanded by Generals RE Lee and JE Johnston, hi" ablest and best Generals. The army commanded by Lee occupied the south bank of the Rapidan, extending... | |
 | United States. President - United States - 1866 - 920 pages
...soldier, and those who could not bear arms in the field acted as provosts for collecting deserters and returning them. This enabled the enemy to bring almost...Mississippi into two armies, commanded by Generals RE lye and JE Johnston, hie ablest and best generals. The army commanded by Lee occupied the south bank... | |
 | 1866 - 724 pages
...soldier, and those who could not bear arms in the field acted as provosts for collecting deserters and returning them. This enabled the enemy to bring almost...Mississippi into two armies, commanded by Generals RE L^e and JE Johnston, his ablest and best generals. The army commanded by Lee occupied the south bank... | |
 | Phineas Camp Headley - Generals - 1866 - 794 pages
...soldier, and those who could not bear arms in the field acted as provosts for collecting deserters and returning them. This enabled the enemy to bring almost his entire strength into the field. ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE GRAND CAMPAIGN. V armies, he had a large cavalry force nndcr Forrest in northeast... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 586 pages
...soldier; and those who could not bear nrius in the field acted as provosts for collecting deserters and returning them. This enabled the enemy to bring almost his entire strength into the field. These two armies, and the cities covered and defended by them, were the main objective points of the... | |
 | Frank Moore - United States - 1868 - 842 pages
...opening of the campaign of 1864 ; while those in blue are the lines which it was proposed to occupy. them. This enabled the enemy to bring almost his entire...intrenched, covering and defending Richmond, the rebel capital, against the Army of the Potomac. The army under Johnston occupied a strongly-intrenched position... | |
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... making it necessary to guard every foot of road or river used in supplying our armies. In the South, a reign of military despotism prevailed, which made every man and boy capable of bearing arms a soldier; and those who could not bear arms in the... 
