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Civil War Eastern Theater
The Eastern Theater of the American Civil War included the states of Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, the District of Columbia, and the coastal fortifications and seaports of North Carolina.
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There is no way to know Jackson’s thought process as he prepared to engage the Union army in front of him. He knew very little about it and certainly he had no idea that, at the moment he ordered his men to advance, he was actually outnumbered five to one. But it was characteristic of the man that his means of determining the enemy’s strength was to hit the enemy in the face and then see what happened. Typical, too, was his impatience to fight. As at Port Republic, he chose to attack before his
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― Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson
― Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson
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His soldiers and the country might have been better off if Burnside had been more of a quitter, but that was one defect which he lacked.
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― Glory Road
― Glory Road
