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... crossed by frequent streams , affluents of the neighbouring Potomac . These furnished occupation and instruction to a small body of pioneers , recently organised , while the difficulties of the road drew heavily on the marching capacity ...
... crossed by frequent streams , affluents of the neighbouring Potomac . These furnished occupation and instruction to a small body of pioneers , recently organised , while the difficulties of the road drew heavily on the marching capacity ...
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... crossing and destroyed the entire force . Moral : ' Tis easier to watch and defend one bridge than many miles of fordable water . " Why did you keep the story until the bridge was burnt ? " exclaimed Ewell . Subsequently , alleging that ...
... crossing and destroyed the entire force . Moral : ' Tis easier to watch and defend one bridge than many miles of fordable water . " Why did you keep the story until the bridge was burnt ? " exclaimed Ewell . Subsequently , alleging that ...
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... crossing the Blue Ridge seemed to have left winter and its rigours behind . Jackson , whom we moved to join , had suddenly that morning marched toward M'Dowell , some eighty miles west , where , after uniting with a force under General ...
... crossing the Blue Ridge seemed to have left winter and its rigours behind . Jackson , whom we moved to join , had suddenly that morning marched toward M'Dowell , some eighty miles west , where , after uniting with a force under General ...
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... Gordonsville , crossing at the former place the line from Washington and Alexandria to Lynchburg ; the second connected Strasburg and Front Royal , D in the Valley , with the same line at Manassas THE VALLEY CAMPAIGN . 49.
... Gordonsville , crossing at the former place the line from Washington and Alexandria to Lynchburg ; the second connected Strasburg and Front Royal , D in the Valley , with the same line at Manassas THE VALLEY CAMPAIGN . 49.
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... crossed the east branch of the Shenandoah by a bridge , and camped on the stream , near Luray . Here , after three long marches , we were but a short distance below Conrad's Store , a point we had left several days before . I began to ...
... crossed the east branch of the Shenandoah by a bridge , and camped on the stream , near Luray . Here , after three long marches , we were but a short distance below Conrad's Store , a point we had left several days before . I began to ...
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