The war with the south: a history of the late rebellion with biographical sketches of leading statesmen and distinguished naval and military commanders, etc, Volume 1Virtue & Yorston, 1867 - 664 pages |
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Page 60
... command- ant's position , and whose courtesy and bearing had won the friendship of all who knew him , was relieved in the command by Major Robert Anderson , of Kentucky . Major Anderson received his first commission as brevet second ...
... command- ant's position , and whose courtesy and bearing had won the friendship of all who knew him , was relieved in the command by Major Robert Anderson , of Kentucky . Major Anderson received his first commission as brevet second ...
Page 67
... command of Major Anderson . * * " If anybody ever doubted Major An- derson's eminent military capacity , that doubt must be dispelled by the news that we publish in another column , " wrote the editor of the Boston Atlas . " Of his own ...
... command of Major Anderson . * * " If anybody ever doubted Major An- derson's eminent military capacity , that doubt must be dispelled by the news that we publish in another column , " wrote the editor of the Boston Atlas . " Of his own ...
Page 74
... command him to return to his former position , and there to await the contingencies pre- sented in his instructions . This would only have been done with any degree of safety to the command by the con- currence of the South Carolina ...
... command him to return to his former position , and there to await the contingencies pre- sented in his instructions . This would only have been done with any degree of safety to the command by the con- currence of the South Carolina ...
Page 75
... command of all of the forts thought proper , without instructions , to change his position from one of them to an- other . 75 sage to Congress of the 3d instant , ' that you possess ' no power to change the relations heretofore existing ...
... command of all of the forts thought proper , without instructions , to change his position from one of them to an- other . 75 sage to Congress of the 3d instant , ' that you possess ' no power to change the relations heretofore existing ...
Page 129
... command of the arsenal at Augusta during the nullification excitement , and in the Mex- ican war received the rank of brevet brigadier - general for his services at Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma ; com- manded a division at Monterey ...
... command of the arsenal at Augusta during the nullification excitement , and in the Mex- ican war received the rank of brevet brigadier - general for his services at Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma ; com- manded a division at Monterey ...
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