The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and Sciences, Literature, History, Biography, Geography, Commerce, Etc., of the World, Volume 5Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines Scientific American compiling department, 1912 |
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... Union army was at Fairfax Court - House , and that Pope's trains were passing on the road from Centreville to that place . Jackson moved cautiously toward Fairfax Court - House , and on reaching Ox Hill , three miles east of Chantilly ...
... Union army was at Fairfax Court - House , and that Pope's trains were passing on the road from Centreville to that place . Jackson moved cautiously toward Fairfax Court - House , and on reaching Ox Hill , three miles east of Chantilly ...
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... union workmen in a printing - office for the purpose of promoting and enforcing order among themselves . Chapelain ... army , a prison , a ship , or the like . Chaplains in the United States army rank as captains of infantry ; in the ...
... union workmen in a printing - office for the purpose of promoting and enforcing order among themselves . Chapelain ... army , a prison , a ship , or the like . Chaplains in the United States army rank as captains of infantry ; in the ...
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... Union army in the first campaign of the Amer- ican Civil War , in 1862. He married , 11 June 1863 , Françoise Marie Amelie d'Orleans , eldest daughter of the Prince de Joinville . Chartres , shärtr ( anciently AUTRICUM , CIV- ITAS ...
... Union army in the first campaign of the Amer- ican Civil War , in 1862. He married , 11 June 1863 , Françoise Marie Amelie d'Orleans , eldest daughter of the Prince de Joinville . Chartres , shärtr ( anciently AUTRICUM , CIV- ITAS ...
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... Union army , in withdrawing from the field , having interposed at Rossville , Ga . , between the mountain and the ridge being parallel , run- ning nearly north and south and about four miles apart . The Tennessee River touches the base ...
... Union army , in withdrawing from the field , having interposed at Rossville , Ga . , between the mountain and the ridge being parallel , run- ning nearly north and south and about four miles apart . The Tennessee River touches the base ...
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... troops after three hours ' fighting withdrew to the east side of Lookout , and the Wauhatchie or Lookout Valley remained thereafter in Union control . Abundant supplies by the river then reached Chattanooga by a short wagon - haul from ...
... troops after three hours ' fighting withdrew to the east side of Lookout , and the Wauhatchie or Lookout Valley remained thereafter in Union control . Abundant supplies by the river then reached Chattanooga by a short wagon - haul from ...
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