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... Pillow . - Ill - Health and giving up of Active Command .... CHAPTER XXIV . Correspondence at Cleveland . - Detached from Command of Western Flotilla ... CHAPTER XXV . Correspondence . - Return to the East . - Vote of Thanks by Congress ...
... Pillow . - Ill - Health and giving up of Active Command .... CHAPTER XXIV . Correspondence at Cleveland . - Detached from Command of Western Flotilla ... CHAPTER XXV . Correspondence . - Return to the East . - Vote of Thanks by Congress ...
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... PILLOW Frontispiece . • • .Faces p . 20 • • ( ( • • • 80 · P . 114 P. 166 .Faces p . 170 • 186 p . 200 .Faces p . 201 P. 222 Faces p . 223 • • • • .p . 242 p . 267 .Faces p . 268 285 66 311 THE LIFE OF REAR - ADMIRAL ANDREW HULL FOOTE ,
... PILLOW Frontispiece . • • .Faces p . 20 • • ( ( • • • 80 · P . 114 P. 166 .Faces p . 170 • 186 p . 200 .Faces p . 201 P. 222 Faces p . 223 • • • • .p . 242 p . 267 .Faces p . 268 285 66 311 THE LIFE OF REAR - ADMIRAL ANDREW HULL FOOTE ,
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... Pillow Friars Pt . T Jackson Milan Tennessee KENT Ft . Donelson Dover Clarksville NASHVILLE / Bowling Green Cumberlaña N ESSE Savannah Grand Je Shiloh Pittsburg Landing Corinth PPI R. E Mc Minn V. Decherd Chattanoo Stevenson " Dalton ...
... Pillow Friars Pt . T Jackson Milan Tennessee KENT Ft . Donelson Dover Clarksville NASHVILLE / Bowling Green Cumberlaña N ESSE Savannah Grand Je Shiloh Pittsburg Landing Corinth PPI R. E Mc Minn V. Decherd Chattanoo Stevenson " Dalton ...
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... Pillow , and Floyd , threw themselves into the place , and every thing looked like a most determined resistance , as if the fate of the whole war were to be staked upon it . And , in some respects , this was true . The post was one of ...
... Pillow , and Floyd , threw themselves into the place , and every thing looked like a most determined resistance , as if the fate of the whole war were to be staked upon it . And , in some respects , this was true . The post was one of ...
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... Pillow , and the unconditional surrender the next morning by Buckner of the stronghold with its army of fifteen thousand - or what re- mained of its army of twenty - five thousand who did not run away - and its immense amount of ...
... Pillow , and the unconditional surrender the next morning by Buckner of the stronghold with its army of fifteen thousand - or what re- mained of its army of twenty - five thousand who did not run away - and its immense amount of ...
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A. H. FOOTE Admiral Foote Africa Army attack Barrier Forts batteries battle battle of Belmont BENTON boats Bureau of Equipment Cairo capture Carondelet Cincinnati Clarksville Cloth coast Columbus Commander Foote Commodore Commodore Foote Conestoga crew cruise Cumberland Cumberland rivers DEAR deck Department Donelson duty Eastport enemy feel fight fire Flag-Officer FLAG-STEAMER fleet flotilla Foote's Fort Donelson Fort Henry Fort Pillow Gideon give gun-boats Halleck Henry honor hope hundred iron-clad Island Joseph Smith land letter Lexington Lieutenant Foote Lieutenant-Commanding Louis Madrid Memphis miles Mississippi morning mortar-boats mortars Mound City Naval Forces Navy Yard night obedient servant officers Perry Phelps Pillow Pittsburg Pope port Portsmouth rams ready rebel received respectfully sailed sailors Secretary sent shells ship shore shot slaver soon squadron steamer Stembel Tennessee River thing tion troops vessels vols Washington West Western flotilla Western Waters wounded
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