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" Extraordinary circumstances : "
Brian K. Burton.
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BL
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948686
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b703056
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| Main Entry
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Burton, Brian K.,1959-
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Extraordinary circumstances : : the Seven Days Battles /\ Brian K. Burton.
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| Publication Statement
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Bloomington :: Indiana University Press,, ©2001.
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1 online resource (xi, 524 pages) :: illustrations, maps
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0253108446
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0253339634
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1282065912
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9780253339638
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9781282065918
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-524) and index.
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| Contents
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The Nation has been making progress -- How are we to get at those people? -- The responsibility cannot be thrown on my shoulders -- Charging batteries is highly dangerous -- Little Powell will do his full duty today -- We're holding them, but it's getting hotter and hotter -- I have a regiment that can take it -- You have done your best to sacrifice this Army -- His only course seemed to me was to make for James River -- But what do you think? Is the enemy in large force? -- He has other important duty to perform -- Why, those men are rebels! -- We've got him -- He ... Rose and walked off in silence -- I thought I heard firing -- It is nothing when you get used to it -- We had better let him alone -- Press forward your whole line and follow up Armistead's success -- General Magruder, why did you attack? -- It was a very tedious, tiresome March -- Under ordinary circumstances the Federal Army should have been destroyed.
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The Seven Days Battles was the first campaign in the Civil War in which Robert E. Lee led the Army of Northern Virginia and has been the subject of a number of fine historical treatments. None, however, is more detailed and engaging than Burton's closely observed account. It is a moment-by-moment story of the campaign that lifted Southern spirits, began Lee's ascent to fame, and almost prompted European recognition of the Confederacy.
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Seven Days' Battles, Va., 1862.
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HISTORY-- United States-- Civil War Period (1850-1877)
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HISTORY.
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Virginia.
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973.7/32
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E473.68.B87 2001eb
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