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UNINA9910455005703321 |
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Burton Brian K. <1959-> |
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Titolo |
Extraordinary circumstances [[electronic resource] ] : the Seven Days Battles / / Brian K. Burton |
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Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2001 |
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1-282-06591-2 |
9786612065910 |
0-253-10844-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (540 p.) |
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Seven Days' Battles, Va., 1862 |
Electronic books. |
Virginia History |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p.473-498) and index. |
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Cover; Contents; List of Maps; Acknowledgments; 1. "The Nation Has Been Making Progress"; 2. "How Are We to Get at Those People?"; 3. "The Responsibility Cannot Be Thrown on My Shoulders"; 4. "Charging Batteries Is Highly Dangerous"; 5. "Little Powell Will Do His Full Duty To-day"; 6. "We're Holding Them, but It's Getting Hotter and Hotter"; 7. "I Have a Regiment That Can Take It"; 8. "You Have Done Your Best to Sacrifice This Army"; 9. "His Only Course Seemed to Me Was to Make for James River"; 10. "But What Do You Think? Is the Enemy in Large Force?" |
11. "He Has Other Important Duty to Perform"12. "Why, Those Men Are Rebels!"; 13. "We've Got Him"; 14. "He . . . Rose and Walked Off in Silence"; 15. "I Thought I Heard Firing"; 16. "It Is Nothing When You Get Used to It"; 17. "We Had Better Let Him Alone"; 18. "Press Forward Your Whole Line and Follow Up Armistead's Success"; 19. "General Magruder, Why Did You Attack?"; 20. "It Was a Very Tedious, Tiresome March"; 21. "Under Ordinary Circumstances the Federal Army Should Have Been Destroyed"; Appendix A. Union and Confederate Troop Strengths; Appendix B. Lee's General Orders no. 75 |
Appendix C. Jackson's Dabbs House Conference Memorandum Appendix D. McClellan's June 28 Telegram to Stanton; Appendix E. |
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Chilton's June 29 Message to Stuart; Appendix F. Orders of Battle; Notes; Bibliography; Index; |
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The first campaign in the Civil War in which Robert E. Lee led the Army of Northern Virginia, the Seven Days Battles were fought southeast of the Confederate capital of Richmond in the summer of 1862. Lee and his fellow officers, including ""Stonewall"" Jackson, James Longstreet, A. P. Hill, and D. H. Hill, pushed George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac from the gates of Richmond to the James River, where the Union forces reached safety. Along the way, Lee lost several opportunities to harm McClellan. The Seven Days have been the subject of numerous historical treatments, but none more de |
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UNISALENTO991004099159707536 |
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Autore |
Bacchylides |
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The poems and fragments / Bacchylides ; edited with introduction, notes and prose translation by Richard C. Jebb |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Jebb, Richard Claverhouse |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Rist. dell'ed.: Cambridge 1905. |
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