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... captain , who had succeeded to the immediate command of these worthies on the advancement of Wheat , enjoying the luxury of many aliases , called himself White , perhaps out of respect for the purity of the patriotic garb lately assumed ...
... captain , who had succeeded to the immediate command of these worthies on the advancement of Wheat , enjoying the luxury of many aliases , called himself White , perhaps out of respect for the purity of the patriotic garb lately assumed ...
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... Captain Bowyer , had recently been added to it . The four regiments , 6th , 7th , 8th , and 9th Louisiana , would average above eight hundred bayonets . Of Wheat's battal- ion of " Tigers " and the 7th I have written . The 6th , Colonel ...
... Captain Bowyer , had recently been added to it . The four regiments , 6th , 7th , 8th , and 9th Louisiana , would average above eight hundred bayonets . Of Wheat's battal- ion of " Tigers " and the 7th I have written . The 6th , Colonel ...
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... Captain ( afterward Colonel ) Eustace Surget , who remained with me until the war closed , was from Mississippi , where he had large estates . Without the slightest military training , by study and zeal , he soon made himself an ...
... Captain ( afterward Colonel ) Eustace Surget , who remained with me until the war closed , was from Mississippi , where he had large estates . Without the slightest military training , by study and zeal , he soon made himself an ...
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... Captain Bowyer , had been sent forward at dusk to get forage , and an orderly was despatched to put it on the march . The 6th ( Irish ) Regiment was in rear , and I took two companies for a rear - guard . The column had scarce got into ...
... Captain Bowyer , had been sent forward at dusk to get forage , and an orderly was despatched to put it on the march . The 6th ( Irish ) Regiment was in rear , and I took two companies for a rear - guard . The column had scarce got into ...
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... Captain Nicholls , 8th Regiment , brother to the colonel , killed a few days after at Cold Harbour . Much cavalry skirmishing was still going on around Harrisonburg , dangerous for a lady to pass through ; and besides , she had come ...
... Captain Nicholls , 8th Regiment , brother to the colonel , killed a few days after at Cold Harbour . Much cavalry skirmishing was still going on around Harrisonburg , dangerous for a lady to pass through ; and besides , she had come ...
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